Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this basis , Mr Davies , a local Transport and General Workers Union official , will have captured the nomination if he took just over half of Ms Wilson 's vote when it was redistributed in the second ballot . |
| 2 | To obtain highly purified hTFIIIA , the ionic strength of fraction PC A was raised to 0.6 M KCl and it was rechromatographed on a second column of phosphocellulose . |
| 3 | It was killed in the second one as well . |
| 4 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 5 | It was described as the second largest in Europe . |
| 6 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 7 | In the example given above , for instance , the value of the site for which planning permission for housing development was given might be increased by virtue of the fact that it was refused on the second site . |