Example sentences of "[art] second [is] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is a managerial tradition deriving from F W Taylor 's theory of scientific management and his studies of work administration . |
| 2 | The second is a practical outfit that is comfortable to be worn throughout . |
| 3 | The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time . |
| 4 | The second is a mutual agreement that substantive conditions of supply will hold , for example ‘ in exchange for you granting me an exclusive territory , I promise to sell only your products in that territory ’ . |
| 5 | The second is a classic case of the Court 's creation of a policy never expressed by Parliament and the imposition of that policy on the legislation in plain contradiction of its express and unequivocal terms . |
| 6 | If the first shape is a series of rough-hewed approximations , the second is a shiny patchwork of beautifully stitched leather cut-outs . |
| 7 | While the first book depicted the conditions and the struggle by women in northern Ethiopia , the second is a detailed account of one woman 's fight against injustice in Tanzania . |
| 8 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |