Example sentences of "what [art] second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Dan Salmon 's funeral , Charlie tried to read the Daily Chronicle every morning in the hope of discovering what the second battalion , Royal Fusiliers , were up to and where his father might be . |
| 2 | This is often confused with a lot of idealistic nonsense about the inevitability of progress , often coupled with ignorant nonsense about evolution " violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics " ( those that belong to the half of the educated population that , according to the novelist C. P. Snow , know what the Second Law is , will realize that it is no more violated by evolution than it is violated by the growth of a baby ) . |
| 3 | One part of a sentence may indicate what the second part is likely to be . |
| 4 | P is ‘ Pity the first doctor got it right , ’ which is what the second doctor said . |
| 5 | What the second stage needed was not a distribution , such as a successful general adoption of the co-operative form of organisation would have prompted , of the wealth created by the first stage , but rather an accumulation and concentration . |