Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 2 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 3 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 4 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
| 5 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 6 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 7 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 8 | The system of Heliopolis can be traced back to the Second and Third Dynasties . |
| 9 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 10 | I shall have to be looking out for a second hand bike-y just for the occasional trip into town without getting Stuey out of bed so I be a bit more independent than just bothering you all time , if I just wan na pop anywhere . |
| 11 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 12 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 13 | Most of the technology going into this third snapshot will be wrapped up in the second quarter , according to business area manager Jon Gossels . |
| 14 | The basic examination should consist of : ( a ) an interview with frequent switching from language to language ; ( b ) an improvised short speech in the first language on a topic chosen at random , to assess general knowledge ; ( c ) non-technical information in one language to be rendered consecutively in a second language ; ( d ) translation from a text off-the-cuff . |
| 15 | MAKESHIFT court proceedings in the home of a dying lung-cancer victim , Alfred McTear , had to be abandoned halfway through the second day yesterday on doctor 's advice . |
| 16 | This will be followed up by the second phase of interviews and observation work to explore further some main ideas more closely important factors in women 's health decision-making , especially those contributing to low rates of utilisation of services such as screening . |
| 17 | In the early 19th century , however , new legislation inadvertently deprived the press of its fiscal advantages , and its publishing petered out , to be revived only after the Second World War . |
| 18 | Certain ‘ representatives of the Afghan people ’ would be admitted only at the second stage of the conference and they would need to accept the decisions of the conference . |
| 19 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 20 | Work which is not central to the organisation should be contracted out to the second element which provides specialist services which increase expertise and diminish costs . |
| 21 | Disc jockeys added a ‘ voice ’ to formerly instrumental discs which would then be recorded again for the second version of the same record . |
| 22 | Proposals for a maximum carcase weight of 380kg , which was more than likely to be introduced this July , could mean heavier animals having to be marketed earlier before the second qualifying period . |
| 23 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 24 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |
| 25 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Restaurant worker Tammy , 17 , was dramatically pictured on our front page seconds after being caught up in the second of the two explosions . |
| 27 | The sections were evaluated blindly by the second author twice with two months interval . |
| 28 | All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity . |
| 29 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 30 | A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing , with the greatest of ease . |