Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the second [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , second battalion Black Watch were there , we were the second battalion row .
2 It was the second court appearance for 19 year old Stephen Reynolds .
3 It was the second Kinsey Report , entitled Sexual Behaviour In The Human Female .
4 It was the second suicide bid by Newall , who is accused of murdering his wealthy parents on the Bergerac island of Jersey five years ago .
5 It was the Second World War that plucked ‘ Joe ’ Burke from the tranquil backwaters of aesthetics to the whirlpools and rapids of government administration .
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