Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia is the only country in our chart where reserves have fallen , from $12 billion to $1 billion ; in 1983 its reserves , at $17 billion , were the second biggest in the world . |
| 5 | McKee ( 1987 ) reports that siblings of unemployed men were the second most important category ( after parents ) to give assistance . |
| 6 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 7 | He , and his twin brother James , who became a successful farmer in Logie in Aberdeenshire , were the second and third of the five children of Alexander Gordon , tenant farmer of Miltown of Drum . |
| 8 | In performing so well , BRC beat by 16 seconds Dublin University who have won at Erne and Galweay Heads and were the second Irish crew at Laganside Head . |
| 9 | The Bandung talks were the second workshop to be held since Indonesia launched its South China Sea initiative in 1990 . |
| 10 | After the Russians , these were the second most numerous ethnic group to be ruled from St Petersburg and occupied an area which , apart from the north-eastern corner of the Habsburg Empire , included the three southernmost of Russia 's nine western provinces and an equally large region on the left or eastern bank of the river Dnieper . |
| 11 | Yeah , second battalion Black Watch were there , we were the second battalion row . |
| 12 | Children have to learn competence in this mode in terms of its syntax , its organisational patterns and its contextual constraints — much as if it were a second language . |
| 13 | Can you lay your hands on the second and third addition of the brochures then ? , if there were a second and third edition |
| 14 | ‘ Sheffield Wednesday beat us in the Rumbelows Cup Final at Wembley last season when they were a Second Division side . |
| 15 | There were no second chances ! |
| 16 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 17 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 18 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 19 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 21 | It was the second largest building in the city , next to the cathedral , which was much less prominent . |
| 22 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 23 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
| 24 | It was always likely that this would happen again this year , given that the Walker Cup team were making history whereas Faldo , for all his brilliance , was the second Briton and the fourth European in the Eighties to win at Augusta . |
| 25 | He had a series of Sunday shows down there called the Bowie Show Boat and this was the second one . |
| 26 | And for his 39-year-old mother Linda , Donald 's death was the second bereavement in a fortnight . |
| 27 | It was the second Kinsey Report , entitled Sexual Behaviour In The Human Female . |
| 28 | It was the second time Vonetta and I had met ; both times she struck me as an extremely self-possessed young woman with a lot of presence . |
| 29 | Circumstances changed at the end of the summer of 1986 , when matters , and men , were becoming desperate , and when North also seemed to think he had found a soulmate in the ‘ brave young soldier , who was the Second Channel . |
| 30 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |