Example sentences of "be [prep] a second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 2 | But you ca n't , it 's just impossible , cos you live in the ar , you know Green , you 're like a second class citizen , you know . |
| 3 | He has recovered his form superbly after a broken finger threatened his career last season , and England boss Graham Taylor said : ‘ Sometimes when you 're with a Second Division club or out in the far North East you can feel forgotten . |
| 4 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 5 | They would be like a second family to you . |
| 6 | The British people know that ; they are well aware of the dangers of Britain being in a second division in Europe , and they do not want to be left behind . |
| 7 | The new 1.8i engine is worth a second glance , it seems . |
| 8 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 9 | This would be in accordance with the " acquisition hierarchy " observed by Edwards , assuming that the acquisition is of a second dialect rather than a new language altogether . |
| 10 | He is with a second man . |
| 11 | One of these , the composer 's working score of a late version of his Te Deum , Paris , Bibliotheque Nationale ( F-Pn ) , H400D(3) ( illus.3 ) , is all in his own hand except for a fair copy of a shortened version of the seventh movement , ‘ Tu Rex gloriae ’ which is in a second hand , and another inserted folio with an alternative version of ‘ Dignare ’ and ‘ Miserere ’ , in a third hand . |
| 12 | The closer one is to a second language group , either socially or psychologically , the greater the probability of adequate learning . |
| 13 | £35,000 is on a second mortgage to Dorend Limited which chareges interest of 39 per cent . |
| 14 | It was like a second honeymoon . |
| 15 | Mr Sadler said Sunnie was like a second mother to him . |
| 16 | Sally , the wife who was like a second mother to the Inspector Wexford star 's four daughters , ca n't be with him in Australia to share this moment . |
| 17 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |