Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with many of our politicians is that they are biased towards the second . |
| 2 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |
| 3 | They are coming from the second and third generations of families who have migrated to this country , families who have encouraged their children to enter the professions and vocations as lawyers , doctors , nurses and local government officers and to retain their competence in their own language . |
| 4 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 5 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 6 | Although Edinburgh , for whom captain and scrum-half Johnnie Crombie had an outstanding game , were losing only 7-0 at the interval , they were swamped in the second half as Durham ran in five tries and kicked four conversions and a penalty . |
| 7 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |
| 8 | It was the biggest body-blow the club had taken since they were dumped into the Second Division 20 years ago . |