Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news came as Johnson Matthey announced a second top-level boardroom departure within 24 hours . |
| 2 | The news came as Johnson Matthey announced a second top-level boardroom departure within 24 hours . |
| 3 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 4 | The Daltons became the second husband and wife team in the Commons , but three months later he came North to bag the seat for himself . |
| 5 | During the rest of the inter-war period , and indeed ever since , Labour politicians and commentators have attempted to explain why Ramsay MacDonald ditched the second Labour government and formed a National Government . |
| 6 | The consultant psychogeriatrician in the London Borough of Newham was one of those approached , and as he responded most quickly and positively , Newham became the second area in which the project was to be set up . |
| 7 | Mrs Cutforth became the second Mrs Tawell regardless of their feelings . |
| 8 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 9 | Two Coldstream guardsmen who are accused of robbery while on the run from their unit in Germany made a second appearance before magistrates in Whitby . |
| 10 | At the same time the university created a second demonstratorship to which Fenton was appointed . |
| 11 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 12 | In August 1980 the DUC produced the second issue of their bulletin STOP . |
| 13 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 14 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 15 | In the larger nations in the 1980S IBM in effect became the second national champion , and in some smaller countries perhaps even the first national champion computer supplier . |
| 16 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 17 | Major success for caddie Andy Prodger and Open champion Nick Faldo came the second time around . |
| 18 | In 1981 the brigade received a second hand fire engine from the local fire department and in 1989 public donations allowed them to buy a second reconditioned engine . |
| 19 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 20 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 21 | The following year Alcock discovered a second nova in the nearby constellation Vulpecula . |
| 22 | Returning from the despatch room , Manville started the second half of his emergency plan . |
| 23 | Unable to establish any common ground between his proposals and the radical demands of the Left , Stolypin dissolved the Second Duma on 3 June 1907 and drastically altered the franchise on which subsequent Dumas were to be elected . |
| 24 | As Royal Mail hit the second last hard the fairy-tale result seemed inevitable . |
| 25 | His unusual choice and his talent brought a second audition , and then the coveted part in the West End . |
| 26 | Roberts hit Classic Review five times on the ear before the horse won the second race of the day . |
| 27 | The youngsters each could carry one end of a staff with two hives swinging in thick bags in the centre , while Ruari carried a second pole with a skep slung at each end . |
| 28 | Then last September the Echo launched the second stage of the project , an updated disc with 161,000 articles . |
| 29 | The 31-year-old from Paisley had a second 70 at Santa Ponsa to move alongside Ronan Rafferty at four under par , two strokes behind Danish leader Steen Tinning , who has one stroke in hand over England 's Jim Payne , South African Ian Palmer and Sweden 's Joakim Haeggman . |
| 30 | Because of ethical reasons , not all rebleeders in both groups received a second injection with the same solution . |