Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Saxony was conquered for a second time . |
| 2 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 3 | The case was heard for a second time in mid-1986 , when he was convicted on six counts of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment , but the verdict was later overturned . |
| 4 | They seem to have taken the view that deportation was justified as a last resort when the victim had persistently ignored warnings , and when nothing further could be done to achieve his rehabilitation . |
| 5 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 6 | Haygarth Jackson was reappointed for a second term as chairman of Publications and Information Board . |
| 7 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 8 | A report on the extent and nature of the feedback was included in a second document circulated to all schools in 1980 . |
| 9 | Navigation and survey project work run from Swindon was dominated by a second season working for the Italian Government on search and salvage of aircraft wreckage deep offshore Italy . |
| 10 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 11 | To strengthen the validity of this conclusion , a group of symptomatic patients without coeliac disease with normal intestinal mucosa was added as a second control group , in addition to age matched normal controls . |
| 12 | The priest was dying with a last Gloria on his lips , and Harry , carried away upon a tide of hatred for all things Spanish and all things Catholic , had already sunk the blade into the back of the young hidalgo . |
| 13 | A small sponge filter was placed in the tank and infusoria was fed as a first food . |
| 14 | All the same , the evidence strongly supports the view that missio was granted against a third party only in the event of his having notice of a trust . |
| 15 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 16 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 17 | The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process . |
| 18 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 19 | Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence . |
| 20 | The declaration was seen as a last gesture by Annamalai Varatharaja Perumal , the Chief Minister of the Council and leader of the EPRLF , who subsequently left Sri Lanka along with his wife and family . |
| 21 | In a Nottingham mining family the grandfather was named as a second father : ‘ I used to call him ‘ father ’ and me dad , ‘ dad ’ . ’ |
| 22 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 23 | PRIME Minister John Major 's ‘ classless society ’ was revealed as a second class sham yesterday — from the school playground to the factory floor . |
| 24 | The effect was that Craig did not receive 1,476 out of the 3,813 papers on which he was shown as a second preference . |
| 25 | The truth was told by a second half in which they monopolised the ball and did n't make one opening . |
| 26 | Non-smoking ( never smoking combined with tried but stopped ) was used as a second end point . |
| 27 | The questionnaire used the term ‘ mild ’ to describe all self treated episodes and ‘ severe ’ to describe all episodes where help was needed from a second person . |
| 28 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 29 | Clarke entered the Royal Military Academy , and in 1847 came first in his class and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers . |
| 30 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |