Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 2 | ( ellipted items : been swimming in second clause ) . |
| 3 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 4 | Several of the gasifier systems commercially available are made by Second World War manufacturers . |
| 5 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 6 | Ltd. and Madigan Associates S.A. be joined as second and third defendants ; and ( 3 ) the U.S.$2m. in court be paid out to the solicitors instructed by the interim government of the Republic of Somalia , unless any party showed cause why it should not be so paid out . |
| 7 | This group of teaching aids is by far the most important , and should not be regarded as second rate . |
| 8 | The other way in which addressees are typically referred to , namely by titles of address , also causes agreement problems — a decision has to be made between second or third person agreement , and , where relevant , between which titles of address can co-occur with which degree of respect encoded in verbal agreements ( Levinson , 1979b ) . |
| 9 | Apart from my own field already mentioned above , others may choose to research Victorian turnstiles , pre-war floodlighting , tea hut menus or programme design ; then again , there is still much work to be done on Second Division lavatories . |
| 10 | Although women are a primary focus of many psychological investigations of the family , for instance , they tend to be relegated to second place in biological explanations of the results . |
| 11 | I understand that a timetable motion is to be introduced on Second Reading — a procedure which I have not experienced . |
| 12 | Virtually all the settings in which sign language is learned can also be found in second language learning . |
| 13 | All documents sent by post for service , whether originating process or otherwise and whether to companies or to persons , should be sent by prepaid letter post , not registered or recorded ; only documents other than originating process can be sent by second class post . |
| 14 | This experience can not be replicated in second language acquisition . |
| 15 | Normally courses in three subjects are taken in the first year and , commonly , these are followed by second courses in at least two of the subjects in the second year . |
| 16 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 17 | The special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens , and enthusiasm from staff members who had been involved in the parallel track had reassured other faculty members . |
| 18 | I do not agree with Stella Lowry that ‘ special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens . ’ |
| 19 | Unfortunately , as viewers discovered , John and Pam were pipped into second place , but they would n't have missed the experience for anything . |
| 20 | The MIR-ADN alliance failed to win La Paz , being pushed into second place by the Conscience of the Fatherland party ( Conciencia de Patria — CONDEPA ) ; the National Revolutionary Movement ( Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario ( Histórico ) — MNR ) came third . |
| 21 | As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members . |
| 22 | The play is being performed by Second Wave members with the cast of thirteen drawn from the weekly performance group ( 12–16 year olds ) . |
| 23 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 24 | Education officials readily admitted that a decade of Sandinista rule had not yet resolved ‘ the cultural problem we have inherited of women being relegated to second place ’ . |
| 25 | These were known as second phase schools . |
| 26 | On Tarvaras there were several subject races who spoke a variation of it — perhaps because they were descended from Second Empire colonists — and suddenly Alexei found that there was insufficient subtlety in it to convey precise nuance . |
| 27 | Every District Land Registry sends its replies by first-class mail , often by return of post , to all searches received by first-class post ; therefore it should be your invariable practice to send your requisition by first-class mail , too ; otherwise , being delivered by second delivery ( and sometimes later than that ) , it will only be dealt with the following day . |
| 28 | DAMON Hill saw his late father Graham 's Monaco Grand Prix record broken by Ayrton Senna but was the first to congratulate the Brazilian despite his own personal disappointment of being beaten into second place . |
| 29 | Manufacturing systems manager Phil Knapper said : ‘ Congratulations to both factories for setting such high standards and also to Mason 's Ironstone who were beaten into second place by just one point . |
| 30 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |