Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legal arrangements for unification were contained in a second state treaty ( the first state treaty having been that providing for economic and monetary union — see pp. 37466-67 ) . |
| 2 | Until very recently the essential oil trade was almost exclusively confined to the perfume and flavours industries — where synthetic or nature identical substances were included without a second thought . |
| 3 | Before counting ( LKB Wallac 1260 Multigamma II counter ) they were transferred to a second Falcon tube to exclude 1 2 5 I-IFN γ bound to plastic . |
| 4 | ELABORATE last-ditch attempts to save a town from lava flowing from Sicily 's Mount Etna were postponed for a second day yesterday because of poor weather . |
| 5 | United kept going … kept chasing and just before half-time were rewarded with a second goal … |
| 6 | United kept going … kept chasing and just before half-time were rewarded with a second goal … |
| 7 | The ace of diamonds and another club ruff were followed by a second heart ruff in dummy , leaving the following position : |
| 8 | Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians . |
| 9 | The thawed samples were spun at 1000 g for 10 minutes and 500 µl aliquots were taken into a second acid washed plastic tube , diluted 1:9 with ultrapure 0.11 M nitric acid , and analysed by ICPES ( Philips PV 8050 ) at the following wavelengths : potassium 766.49 nm , sodium 588.99 nm , magnesium 383.83 nm , copper 324.75 nm , calcium 315.89 nm , iron 259.94 nm , and zinc 213.86 nm . |
| 10 | Run-off elections were held in a second round of voting on Feb. 16 and 23 where no candidate had obtained a simple majority in the first round . |
| 11 | Thus Saxony was conquered for a second time . |
| 12 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 13 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 14 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 15 | A report on the extent and nature of the feedback was included in a second document circulated to all schools in 1980 . |
| 16 | Navigation and survey project work run from Swindon was dominated by a second season working for the Italian Government on search and salvage of aircraft wreckage deep offshore Italy . |
| 17 | To strengthen the validity of this conclusion , a group of symptomatic patients without coeliac disease with normal intestinal mucosa was added as a second control group , in addition to age matched normal controls . |
| 18 | In a Nottingham mining family the grandfather was named as a second father : ‘ I used to call him ‘ father ’ and me dad , ‘ dad ’ . ’ |
| 19 | PRIME Minister John Major 's ‘ classless society ’ was revealed as a second class sham yesterday — from the school playground to the factory floor . |
| 20 | The effect was that Craig did not receive 1,476 out of the 3,813 papers on which he was shown as a second preference . |
| 21 | The truth was told by a second half in which they monopolised the ball and did n't make one opening . |
| 22 | Non-smoking ( never smoking combined with tried but stopped ) was used as a second end point . |
| 23 | The questionnaire used the term ‘ mild ’ to describe all self treated episodes and ‘ severe ’ to describe all episodes where help was needed from a second person . |
| 24 | Clarke entered the Royal Military Academy , and in 1847 came first in his class and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers . |
| 25 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |
| 26 | At the last presidential elections , held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1 , 1988 , Mauno Koivisto , the candidate supported primarily by the SSDP , failed to win the required absolute majority but was re-elected for a second term by the electoral college on Feb. 15 [ see pp. 35853-54 ] . |
| 27 | Diouf was re-elected for a second term at the same time . |
| 28 | President : Chaim Herzog was first elected by the Knesset to the largely ceremonial post of President in 1983 ; he was re-elected for a second term in 1988 . |
| 29 | Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage . |
| 30 | To standardise the manner in which information was presented by the investigator , patients were simply left to digest the written information for one hour , but they were given the opportunity to clarify anything which they did not understand before their state of anxiety was reassessed by a second Spielberger questionnaire . |