Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children have to learn competence in this mode in terms of its syntax , its organisational patterns and its contextual constraints — much as if it were a second language . |
| 2 | Tucked away in a quiet part of the town , mostly inhabited by better-class salesmen and small businessmen , it was a second storey apartment . |
| 3 | Yes , at sunrise on Christmas Eve four years ago and , it was important for us to do exactly what we wanted because erm it was a second wedding for both of us and it was also erm we wanted to have something that represented sort of the aspirations of love and so , sunrise erm , and on the top of a hill did that for us . |
| 4 | With the independent network still smarting over BSkyB 's controversial £304 million capture of coverage of the new Premier League it was a second severe setback in just over a week . |
| 5 | For 34-year-old Chris , a pipe-fitter and welder at the Grimsby site in the UK , and wife Lorraine , 29 , it was a second blow after previously suffering the tragedy of a stillborn baby . |
| 6 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 7 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 8 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 9 | It was the second largest building in the city , next to the cathedral , which was much less prominent . |
| 10 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 11 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
| 12 | It was the second Kinsey Report , entitled Sexual Behaviour In The Human Female . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was the Second World War that plucked ‘ Joe ’ Burke from the tranquil backwaters of aesthetics to the whirlpools and rapids of government administration . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was the second major shock of the week . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | situated in Fleet Street it was the second house in London to sell coffee , and by c . |
| 22 | It was the second day of athletics events of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad . |
| 23 | It was the second time I had failed to finish an AAA Championship and I vowed to do better . |
| 24 | It was the second time that Edinburgh had staged the Commonwealth Games . |
| 25 | It was the second most commonly made point : ( see also section 4.1 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was the second weekend after the dinner party . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But it was the second man who riveted Joan 's attention . |