Example sentences of "[was/were] the second [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were the second example of 1960 's privatisation ( the Bluebell Railway in Sussex being the first ) but our 25-year hire purchase was the first and only one which British Rail permitted . |
| 2 | The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability . |
| 3 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 4 | It was the second day of athletics events of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad . |
| 5 | The perspicacious reader will by now have decided that , if we accept the 1865 suppressed edition as the first , this American printing was the second issue of the first edition , since it was printed from the original setting of type . |
| 6 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 7 | This was the second part of the Conservative strategy . |
| 8 | The first part of the question that was asked by the hon. Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) was in order , but the second part was out of order , as was the second part of the question asked by his hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley ( Mr. Riddick ) . |
| 9 | Sorry , what was the second part of the question ? |
| 10 | It was the second shock of the tournament in 24 hours , following holder Steve Davis 's elimination by 192-ranked Irishman Fergal O'Brien . |
| 11 | Sweden was the second member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA — which was collectively seeking to negotiate a European economic area with the EC — see pp. 38307 ; this page ) to apply for EC membership , Austria having done so in July 1989 [ see p. 36822 ] . |
| 12 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
| 13 | It was the second winner of the annual Cricket Society book award . |
| 14 | And then there was the second tier of the cake , something a little bit different , something a little bit more special for the seventy fifth year but still perhaps working on the tried and tested . |
| 15 | That there should be trouble on a July afternoon in Birmingham might seem strange until one notes the date : 14 July , 1791 , was the second anniversary of the storming of the Bastille . |
| 16 | Kamal was the second half of the London cell . |
| 17 | And I I think that it it it would just grow out of that kind of activity and then eventually when ploughing matches er , as such , in the you know , in the adult farm , with horses , became the great thing er which was the second half of the last century , you know after the farming revolution . |
| 18 | It was the second movement of the Mozart A Major Concerto . |
| 19 | All three dated to the third century , and were tentatively identified as shrines , as was the second phase of a nearby rectangular structure . |
| 20 | Murl ( remember him in Sandstorm ? ) was the second husband of Barbara Baines , formerly married to Amber 's husband Bill Brix . |
| 21 | , Thomas ( c. 1596–1651 ) , postmaster , was the second son of Thomas Witherings of Overton , Staffordshire , and his wife Dorothy , daughter of John Fearne . |
| 22 | , Sir Richard ( c. 1615–1690 ) , Royalist soldier and conspirator , was the second son of Richard Willys , of Fen Ditton , Cambridgeshire , a manor granted to his grandfather Thomas Willys by James I in 1605 . |
| 23 | , Hugh , Earl of Gloucester ( c. 1291–1347 ) , baron , was the second son of Sir Hugh Audley ( c .1267– c .1326 ) of Stratton Audley , Oxfordshire , by his marriage to Isolt , widow of Sir Walter de Balun and daughter of Edmund Mortimer of Wigmore , Herefordshire . |
| 24 | , Francis ( c. 1530–1592 ) , civil lawyer and MP , was the second son of Robert Alford and his wife Anne Brydges . |
| 25 | or , Thomas ( 1522–1591 ) , merchant , financier , and entrepreneur , was the second son of John Smith , clothier and small landowner of Corsham , Wiltshire , and his wife Joan , daughter of Robert Brouncker of Melksham . |
| 26 | What was the second property of metal that you have ? |