Example sentences of "second [noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second catheter was inserted into the internal jugular veing to give drugs intravenously . |
| 2 | A second car was parked outside the cottage . |
| 3 | A second concentration was represented by the 40 SMLAs occupying the East and West Midlands , Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire : another 33 per cent of the population of the country on 14 per cent of the land area . |
| 4 | The second revolution was accompanied in the borderlands by violence , plundering , exactions and the establishment of a dictatorial regime … in the past , a small group of Tsarist bureaucrats oppressed them ; today , the same group of people or others who cloak themselves in the name of the Bolsheviks perpetuate in the borderlands the same regime . |
| 5 | The second prosecution was brought by the National Rivers Authority after a mistake had caused chemicals to overflow from a storage tank , leading to a concentration of copper in the works discharge pipe of more than 17 times the legal limit . |
| 6 | The second round was contested in the 58 constituencies where no candidate had gained an absolute majority in the first round . |
| 7 | The second prize was awarded to the Assistant Rector of Arbroath Academy , Ron Scrimgeour for his work on ‘ Equal Opportunities : languages is a powerful influence in the classroom ’ . |
| 8 | The prototype made only three flights in all , the second example was taken to the USA for examination . |
| 9 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 10 | Sortly after , a second cylinder was found on the London-bound track and removed . |
| 11 | A second cylinder was removed from the track before a train could hit it . |
| 12 | In four patients , a second neoplasm was associated with the gastric lymphoma — one had coexisting gastric carcinoma , another a coexisting colonic carcinoma , and a third developed urothelial carcinoma 11 years after treatment with a chemotherapeutic regimen that included cyclophosphamide . |
| 13 | The second objective was met by the introduction of a betterment levy on development value . |
| 14 | The normal slowdown is represented by The parameters of this normal pre-glitch behaviour were obtained from a best fit for rotation rate and its first derivative , made over the preceding 400 days ; the value of the second derivative was obtained from the full data set from 1969 to 1992 . |
| 15 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 16 | A second ditch was cut in the berm west of the palisade , presumably necessitating its removal . |
| 17 | In the last century , the cathedral was made more northern still , when a second tower was added to the one which already existed , and two spires for good measure . |
| 18 | A four-month " consultation period " set after the publication of the second draft was extended after the mid-year political upheavals in China [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-42 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 19 | In experiments on the colon ( colonic transit ) , one cannula was positioned in the postcaecal portion of the colon ; a second cannula was placed in the most distal part of the colon that was accessible at the time of laparotomy . |
| 20 | Whilst , according to them , some reference was made to the possibility of imprisonment , the second appellant was assured by the solicitor that there was no risk of that and no real need for them to appear before the judge . |