Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] second " in BNC.
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1 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
2 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |
3 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
4 | The same typewriter had been used to address it , it bore a second class stamp and had been posted in London WC1 . |
5 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
6 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
7 | It landed the Second Division minnows an away second round date at Leigh and Strudwick , the 42-year-old Australian charged with spreading the rugby league gospel in the capital , was pleased as punch . |
8 | Early in November it called a second general strike to protest against the repressive measures being taken at the naval base of Kronstadt , in Poland , and elsewhere . |
9 | Early in November it called a second general strike . |
10 | It represented the second successive decline and was viewed as another sign that the economy is growing , albeit slowly . |
11 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
12 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
13 | It marked the second French defeat in a year ; it fully restored to the English their military reputation which was no longer seen to depend on one man , Henry V ; and , most important of all , it opened the way southwards for further advance into central France . |
14 | He knew she was ‘ out ’ ; it explained the second place at the tea-table , and the mysterious bell . |