Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably , three of the top five gates were in the Second Division — at Halifax , Hull KR and Ryedale York , where 5,000 watched the inaugural game at the club 's swish new stadium in the suburbs . |
| 2 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 3 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 4 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 5 | Course when Walsall were promoted , they had n't got into the European systems then it was very much the old five forwards three halfbacks two fullbacks and a goalkeeper in those days , the , the laundry was there , in those days when they were in the second division . |
| 6 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 7 | They always get one hundred per cent from us , because they were there supporting us when we were in the Second Division . |
| 8 | But expressions of a recursive language , I maintain , could probably not have acquired their categorial valency as it were , their powers of combination into new but readily understood messages , unless their users were on the second rung of the intentional ladder and therefore , potentially , past the Gricean hump . |
| 9 | The two lavatories were on the second floor at the rear opposite the Document Examination Laboratory . |
| 10 | Both it and the Tyrrell Society meeting room , where the dinner was held , were on the second floor of Old Quad . |
| 11 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 12 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 13 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
| 14 | The one time disabled people were really encouraged to set their sights higher than the usual occupations reserved for them , such as basketwork , needlework , shoe or watch repairing , was during the second world war . |
| 15 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 16 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 17 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 18 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 19 | The project was about the Second World War . |
| 20 | Er another brother he er subsequently became a er er a Labour county councillor , but that er that was after the second world war , er after he had er after he had er done war service . |
| 21 | As we discussed in Chapter l , it was after the Second World War that the behavioural revolution which had begun in the inter-war period swept the Faculties of Social Science . |
| 22 | It was after the Second World War that the class distinction in station facilities disappeared , although it remained on the trains . |
| 23 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 24 | By this time , he was in the second phase of his Jewish formation - that of the Mishnah , and attending his Yeshiva with some diligence , if not zest . |
| 25 | The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year . |
| 26 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 27 | However , it was in the second League match after the war that Graham made his first claim to a place ( albeit an unfortunate one ) in Palace 's record-book . |
| 28 | She was in the second row . |
| 29 | It was in the second half of the eighteenth century that the presence of black people in Britain began to give rise to recognizable black communities , with a total black population of probably around 10,000 , although some historians have produced even higher estimates . |
| 30 | It was a hard philosophy , but he claimed it was both immutable and universal , as true in the fifth Dominion , called Earth , as it was in the Second . |