Example sentences of "the second [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Now the first is one of Dostoevsky 's alterations to the galley proofs of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ , and the second is a variant recorded by his widow . |
2 | The second is a reduction of almost 50% in the heat lost through your window area , resulting in overall savings in your heating bills of around 10% . |
3 | The second is a nightmare — how do you know whether or not the interviewer feels incompatible with your sign or believes that people born under your sign are genetically hopeless at the job ? |
4 | The second is a warning of the problems that children from such pregnancies may face in later life . ’ |
5 | The second is a variation — a return a system abolished in 1986 where advanced corporation tax could be offset against production taxes inside the North Sea ‘ ring fence ’ . |
6 | The second is a structure , unique in its figures and inscription , in memory of the Waggoners ' Reserve , a volunteer corps of 1,000 local farmworkers , paid only £1 a year , who provided horse-drawn transport carrying vital supplies to the trenches in Europe during the First World War . |
7 | The first is management 's and shareholders ’ participation , and the second is a change in the law of joint and several liability . ’ |
8 | The second is a tendency for subjects to recall central details of risky situations at the expense of peripheral details . |
9 | The second is a home or flat buyers ' report and valuation . |
10 | The second is a study of hospital Accident and Emergency Units , looking at social psychological factors influencing performance and innovation amongst Senior House Officers on short term attachment to Units . |
11 | The second is a result of women having their breasts grabbed . ’ |
12 | The claim of the second is a reason against accepting the claim of the first only when the two authorities are incompatible , as are the claims of two governments to be legitimate governments of one country . |
13 | The second is a paper and pencil name which requires players to communicate complex instructions about the to follow through the maze . |
14 | The second is a refraction of the truth so wicked in its appeal to natural and real concerns that I can barely sit in my chair and type this . |
15 | The first is a frame in radial free fall , and the second is a frame at rest : where the 1-axis is radial and φ is the gravitational potential . |
16 | The second was a paperback , a romance set in Ancient Greece . |
17 | The second was a conviction that many of us had , that we do indeed have a great deal to offer , by way of expertise and consulting , from the campus . |
18 | The second was a cooking pot , black outside , polished and gleaming inside , solid and commodious . |
19 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
20 | The second was a law enforcement action brought by the Crown ; he referred in particular to such an action brought under a statute which provided expressly for enforcement of a provision of the statute by civil proceedings by the Crown , which was the position in the Hoffmann-La Roche case [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 where the Crown was proceeding pursuant to a provision of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act 1948 . |
21 | The second was a heart shot , but it turned on the breastbone . |
22 | The second was a report on restructuring the business in the run-up to privatisation . |
23 | The second was a woman with a brown suitcase . |
24 | The first list was a set of n-grams taken from a short dictionary ( 11,795 words ) , and the second was a list of n-grams taken from a larger dictionary ( 71,279 words ) . |
25 | The second was a glass dome , the size of a man , and a little taller than our hero . |
26 | Two incidents had drawn public attention to the Directorate in October : the first on Oct. 9 concerned an armed relative of Khasbulatov who was arrested by the police but released without charge ; the second was a shooting incident on Oct. 20 , involving police and three members of the Directorate . |
27 | The second was a gem : |
28 | The second was a letter to everyone who had volunteered , thanking them for offering to come , and saying when to turn up and what to bring . |
29 | The second was a reaction to the concept of the EEC as a ‘ rich man 's club ’ , discriminating against its own poor through the CAP and through its VAT rates , just as it discriminated against poorer countries elsewhere in the world . |
30 | The second was a showroom for garish '50s juke boxes . |