Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat has got a second class going , for the elderly at the Newquay Day Centre ( where she is up against a simultaneously running Bingo session ) , and would now like to introduce a recreational and/or breathing class to her locality . |
| 2 | The United States had entered the Second World War with a very limited overseas basing system , but by the close of the war had acquired a massive global basing network ‘ derived from a combination of conquests , agreements with allies , and temporary arrangements with neutrals and exile regimes that had at least the potential for post-war renewal and extension ’ . |
| 3 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 4 | If Lyrical Ballads was as unpopular as legend would have it , why would Wordsworth have added a second volume in 1800 , and why would both volumes be reprinted in 1802 and again in 1805 ? |
| 5 | Britain has chosen the second option . |
| 6 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 7 | POLICE in Malawi have arrested a second opposition leader for alleged embezzlement , four months before a national referendum on the country 's political future . |
| 8 | They coincide with news that Gosforth First School in Newcastle has become the second school in the country to ask parents to pay £30 each to cover a £9,000 shortfall in the budget . |
| 9 | Top manufacturer Forbo-Nairn has added a second design , Mosaic , to its Cushionflor Bathroom World range . |
| 10 | Now Cyrix has opened a second front with plans to sell a clone of the more powerful 486 for a fraction of the price , just $119 compared with around $550 for Intel 's latest version . |
| 11 | In Oxford Tariq Ali and Stephen Lukes had organized a second teach-in on the war . |
| 12 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 13 | Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation . |
| 14 | Messer Griesheim has awarded a second order to Air Products to supply a 1710 t per day oxygen plant , to be built at Dormagen , Germany . |
| 15 | By the time Aunt Harriet had served a second round of muffins I was n't at all surprised to see my mother happily nodding her approval . |