Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] the second " in BNC.

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1 It 's on the second floor , number twenty-seven . ’
2 And er I I would honestly put it in the , in the March period it 's on the second
3 Right well just that er it 's been resolved a bit since I handled it cos er got this meeting set up which I do n't know whether , whether you need to come , it 's on the second of February
4 Well it 's on the second of Jan July .
5 It 's about the second problem that the Professor raised .
6 Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days .
7 It is in the second half , when Helena becomes a quasi-symbolic force for life and renewal that Patricia Kerrigan 's performance comes into its own .
8 It is in the second part of the book that Yockey extends this theory to problems in molecular biology .
9 If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) .
10 Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity .
11 The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War .
12 It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place .
13 In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) .
14 As we discussed in Chapter l , it was after the Second World War that the behavioural revolution which had begun in the inter-war period swept the Faculties of Social Science .
15 It was after the Second World War that the class distinction in station facilities disappeared , although it remained on the trains .
16 The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year .
17 However , it was in the second League match after the war that Graham made his first claim to a place ( albeit an unfortunate one ) in Palace 's record-book .
18 It was in the second half of the eighteenth century that the presence of black people in Britain began to give rise to recognizable black communities , with a total black population of probably around 10,000 , although some historians have produced even higher estimates .
19 It was a hard philosophy , but he claimed it was both immutable and universal , as true in the fifth Dominion , called Earth , as it was in the Second .
20 It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for .
21 It was in the second phase , then , that linguists stepped to the fore and tried to replace the simple notions of language code and language deficit .
22 [ It was in the second half of the sixth century that the primitive tragedy practised by the Dionysiac worshippers developed into true drama , and , in the same period , ] the cult was accepted as a public cult in Athens .
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