Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another — here was she with no experience whatsoever of professional interviewing techniques — not even a rank amateur , in fact — yet she was about to pretend that interviewing was second nature to her . |
| 2 | The little routine was second nature to her , evidently . |
| 3 | Does he agree that in choosing the alternative route the Secretary of State for Transport was second guessing and ignoring the possibility that an environmental assessment would conclude that the general route that he has selected was as inappropriate as the one from which the hon. Gentleman thinks his constituents would suffer ? |
| 4 | His men were all Rhodesians , tough , self-reliant and taciturn men to whom the open-air life was second nature . |
| 5 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |
| 6 | Brito was second vice-president of the PSD and had stood unsuccessfully as candidate for mayor of Oporto in December . |