Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demolished New Zealand 22–6 in the final for their third win in successive years and they effectively became the second underwater sevens champions since Australia in 1983 , the previous ‘ monsoon ’ tournament . |
| 2 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 3 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 4 | He was a scholar at both the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1903–7 ) , and Lincoln College , Oxford ( 1907–11 ) , although he only obtained a second class in modern history ( 1911 ) . |
| 5 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 6 | Perhaps when we fondly remembered the second world war — and engaged in a massive collective oblivion about the causes and costs of that war . |
| 7 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 8 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 9 | On 14 May 1992 the Russian Parliament finally passed the second and final hearing of the Computer Program and Database Protection Law . |
| 10 | Latvia thus became the second ex-Soviet republic ( following Estonia ) to replace the rouble with its own currency . |
| 11 | she just divorced the second one ? |
| 12 | Thus began a second period of explosive growth in Lothern . |
| 13 | By incorporating his favorite argument from the tides — incontestably a physical argument — he nevertheless transgressed the second of the two conditions . |
| 14 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 15 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 16 | There were no windows in the thick stone walls and the sunlight which brightened the outer room in a single shaft directed through the open doorway hardly penetrated the second inner room . |
| 17 | Also here Nick Sellars and I respectively made the second and third ascents of Peter Gomersall 's outrageously steep Showtime , thinking the grade to be hard F8a+ . |
| 18 | Ian Butterworth yesterday became the second Norwich player , after Gunn , to be punished by the club for newspaper comments about the brawl . |
| 19 | THE tour operators Euro Express yesterday became the second travel firm in less than a week to collapse . |
| 20 | Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday added the second generation of its Citizen Watch Co-made 1.3″ hard drive : the Kittyhawk II Personal Storage Module features increased durability and better power management as well as 42.8Mb capacity , twice that of the original . |
| 21 | He was unopposed at Bewdley , and in the country as a whole , while losing a hundred seats ( the minimum which could be expected after 1931 ) , he still secured the second biggest majority of the century . |
| 22 | Leeds totally dominated the second half creating many chances before equalising after 22 mins . |
| 23 | I quickly ordered a second cup and the dreams returned . |
| 24 | Wembley yesterday landed a second successive European final when the stadium was chosen to host the Cup Winners ' Cup climax on 12 May . |
| 25 | Wembley yesterday landed a second successive European final when the stadium was chosen to host the Cup-Winners ' Cup climax on 12 May . |
| 26 | Rose always recited the Second Decade but when no sound whatever came from the room he nodded severely to Mona to begin . |
| 27 | I gratefully accepted a second helping . |
| 28 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 29 | Yesterday she also tabled a second Parliamentary Question which aims to encourage the Crown Prosecution Service to review its own actions . |
| 30 | Montrose also appointed a second bailie to hold his courts in the regality of Tarbolton , which was considered too detached from the main body of the duke 's superiorities to be handled by the same judge , and , in addition , the duke was himself bailie of the regality of Glasgow with power to appoint a deputy to act in his place . |