Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | erm people do look for protection when they 're when they 're buying the second purchase of their lives in most cases . |
| 2 | POLICE and fire brigade experts are investigating the second blaze in a fortnight at a farm on the Mulgrave estate near Whitby . |
| 3 | THE BFSS , in conjunction with The Game Conservancy Trust and The Lords Taverners , are holding the second Countryside Race Day on Newmarket 's Rowley Mile course on Saturday . |
| 4 | The delay had been to give the second team time to gain position . |
| 5 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 6 | Once you are starting the second year at the school you see faces that are familiar and through brothers and sisters who are in the years above you get to know them . |
| 7 | One way of solving the puzzle would be to use the second law . |
| 8 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 9 | The first was a good attempt but yeah you missed misled or confused then there could be several others I felt you could 've picked up that would be highlighting the second appointment that carried the whole process through |
| 10 | There was one who was sitting beside Gustav Eismark , many years ago , just when he was about to be married the second time . |
| 11 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 12 | In a way , we are witnessing the second coming of Graham Gooch , the flowering of an unfulfilled embryo . |
| 13 | In a way , we are witnessing the second coming of Graham Gooch , the flowering of an unfulfilled embryo . |
| 14 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 15 | On being asked the second time by the farmer how the machine worked , the old worker said : ‘ It be whoolly fine now , maaster . |
| 16 | With an exciting Essex run chase in prospect , play was abandoned without a ball being bowled the second washout of the match , and Lancashire 's fourth in the Championship this season after their rain-ruined trip to Aigburth . |
| 17 | The château , together with its gardens , terraces and belvedere , recently restored by the State on the basis of eighteenth-century documents , will provide the setting for the first part of the itinerary , while a new basement building is to accommodate the second stage . |
| 18 | The tendency within more recent authority is to pitch the second part of the hurdle at varying levels depending upon the nature of the decision-maker in question . |
| 19 | Christie 's offered the second part of the important Korthaus collection in a mixed owner sale . |
| 20 | SunSoft says it 's reached the second milestone in its Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF ( Distributed Object Management Facility ) , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's CORBA specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 21 | A good way of gauging whether the dogs are owner or dog-attached in a two-dog environment is to take the second dog for a quick walk , leaving the first at home ; when you return , the first dog will almost certainly greet you first . |
| 22 | Robert Cooper has donated a magnificent Normead heifer as the first prize to the draw , and Dalgety Agriculture sponsored all the printing and promotional costs along with Herdwise , which is supplying the second prize of 10 semen straws . |
| 23 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
| 24 | He got up and was about to return to his house to wash the dirt from Meg 's grave from his hands when Cranston swaggered in , throwing the door open as if he was announcing the Second Coming . |
| 25 | A 46 year old Worcestershire man , who was driving the second car , also died . |
| 26 | On top of all his other commitments , Lewis was writing the second volume of his space trilogy . |
| 27 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 28 | We moved forward again some way and into the assault trenches — the Rifle Brigade was to form the second wave of the attack . |
| 29 | None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives . |
| 30 | was to get the second hand timber and , and he had a couple of lads off the dole in Mold there , knocking the nails well all he had to do |