Example sentences of "second place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , it raises yet again the economic and political implications which too frequently take second place to other matters but which are of the greatest importance for West Belfast . |
| 2 | There is a taste of the difficulties ahead in the ordering of priorities in the advanced industrial countries : first place goes to economic growth and second place to environmental security . |
| 3 | David Copperfield had taken second place to Great Expectations . |
| 4 | But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail . |
| 5 | From now on , she told Yeats , romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment . |
| 6 | But they were ultimately dashed when China insisted that Hong Kong diplomats take second place to British representatives , thus demoting the views of the colony and effectively limiting the talks to the Britain and China . |
| 7 | However , religious identity had taken second place to secular nationalism for a whole generation . |
| 8 | Les Collins ( Edinburgh ) achieved a magnificent second place to legendary American rider Bruce Penhall in Los Angeles Coliseum ten years ago . |
| 9 | Theory and criticism should not take second place to imaginative writing ’ … |
| 10 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 11 | In Schleswig-Holstein , the SPD beat the CDU into second place at local level for the first time . |
| 12 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In 1987 , The Tsarevich , jointly owned by Edgar Bronfman , the Chairman of The Seagram Company and Ivan Straker , Chairman of Seagram Distillers ran into second place behind Maori Venture , owned by 92-year-old Jim Joel who thus becomes one of the select band who have owned both English Derby and Grand National winners . |