Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.

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1 It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay .
2 But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt .
3 Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors .
4 NATO had been formed after the Second World War in order to tie North America and Western Europe together in a military alliance against the perceived threat of world domination by the Soviet Union .
5 This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day .
6 On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War .
7 Since the trial , the Code had been replaced by a second edition .
8 In his childhood several adults he had loved had been killed in the Second World War .
9 He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time .
10 By the time the customer walked into the shop , the joint had been wrapped by a second assistant whilst a third would fill the empty space in the window .
11 On April 1 , 1990 , the Hungarian Zionists Association which had been dissolved after the Second World War , was re-established , with the aim of promoting the formation of a minority council within the Jewish community .
12 The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War .
13 Born in Austria , he had been imprisoned after the Second World War but escaped to Argentina , where he was granted Argentinian citizenship .
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