Example sentences of "it [was/were] the second " in BNC.
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1 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
2 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
3 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
4 | It was the second largest building in the city , next to the cathedral , which was much less prominent . |
5 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
6 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
7 | It was the second Kinsey Report , entitled Sexual Behaviour In The Human Female . |
8 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
9 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
10 | It was the second time that Oldfield , a bachelor and former public schoolboy from Crosby Road , Birkdale , Southport , had come under suspicion for sexually abusing children in his care . |
11 | It was the Second World War that plucked ‘ Joe ’ Burke from the tranquil backwaters of aesthetics to the whirlpools and rapids of government administration . |
12 | It was the second time this season that the two Gwent sides had finished all-square , and that was the only sign of any lingering bitterness from the earlier match . |
13 | It was the second major shock of the week . |
14 | In 1941 , after a brief and inauspicious period of Vichy French rule , Lebanon was again occupied by Allied armies ; it was the second time in 24 years that British troops had crossed the southern frontier from Palestine . |
15 | They say when are you going to stop it , and I say , when am I going to stop it , when am I — it was the second night they were in the bar together after their week of absence I remember . |
16 | situated in Fleet Street it was the second house in London to sell coffee , and by c . |
17 | It was the second day of athletics events of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad . |
18 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
19 | It was the second time that Edinburgh had staged the Commonwealth Games . |
20 | It was the second most commonly made point : ( see also section 4.1 ) . |
21 | For some , it was the second pilgrimage to Rome as a parish group , and many well-loved churches and places were again visited as well as new places of interest . |
22 | It was the second weekend after the dinner party . |
23 | It was the second suicide bid by Newall , who is accused of murdering his wealthy parents on the Bergerac island of Jersey five years ago . |
24 | It was the second marriage for the chef who runs Harveys restaurant on Wandsworth Common and The Canteen at Chelsea Harbour in partnership with actor Michael Caine . |
25 | But it was the second man who riveted Joan 's attention . |
26 | It was the second crash near Katmandu in two months . |
27 | It was the second big explosion there in a year . |
28 | It was the second fine against the SSD , and the council is appealing against both . |
29 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
30 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |