Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the second [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 2 | Expansion to north Italy brought into play the gold of the Val d'Aosta and south Piedmont , but it was the Second Punic War ( 218–201 B.C. ) which first increased the supply of gold significantly by taking in the alluvial deposits of the Guadalquivir . |
| 3 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 4 | It was the second major blow in a week for Sampras , who failed to live up to his top seeding in Paris when he lost in the quarter-finals of the French Open . |
| 5 | It was the second major shock of the week . |
| 6 | It was the second major concession by the President , the first having been to abandon his election campaign pledge of no new taxes . |
| 7 | It was the second big explosion there in a year . |
| 8 | It was the second Cultural Revolution but this time it came from the students and the workers and this time it was nonviolent , peaceful , gentle . |
| 9 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 10 | He was the second outgoing minister to come under investigation for corruption [ for investigation of outgoing Tourism Minister Carlo Tognoli see p. 38896 ] . |