Example sentences of "it [verb] the second [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the rest of the glass , he wrote , it defies the second law of thermo-dynamics . |
| 2 | A strong challenge anticipated from the fiercely nationalist and right-wing Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SP0 ) failed to materialize : SPO leader Vuk Draskovic took only 20 per cent of the vote to come second in the presidential election , while his party took only 19 seats in the Assembly ( after winning 13 seats in the first round it fought the second round in coalition with other opposition parties ) . |
| 3 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 4 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 5 | It landed the Second Division minnows an away second round date at Leigh and Strudwick , the 42-year-old Australian charged with spreading the rugby league gospel in the capital , was pleased as punch . |
| 6 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 7 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 8 | He knew she was ‘ out ’ ; it explained the second place at the tea-table , and the mysterious bell . |
| 9 | My fourth point is that again dealing with paragraph thirty three , it fails the second test where it should be a clear , and I would like to underline clear , expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities , now Mr Jewitt has already made the point so I 'll be very se very brief about this , but I my clients , Simon Smith 's brewery in Tadcaster , two off fifty seven |