Example sentences of "be the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
| 2 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 3 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 4 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
| 5 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment ; x new members were recruited by Head Office in 1992 . |
| 6 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment . |
| 7 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 8 | The number of deaths attributable to political violence since 1984 , according to the South African Institute of Race Relations ( SAIRR ) , had totalled 11,910. 1991 had been the second worst year since 1984 , but the figure of 2,672 for the year was 28 per cent down on 1990 . |
| 9 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |
| 10 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 11 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 12 | Apart from First-past-the-post , the main majority systems are the Second Ballot ( used in French parliamentary elections ) , and the Alternative Vote ( used in Australia ) . |
| 13 | Complaints about these charges are the second most frequently lodged with Building Societies Ombudsman , Stephen Edell . |
| 14 | The problems encountered when making a 17 keV neutrino fit with what is known about the universe are the second reason for scepticism . |
| 15 | According to the National Safety Council boating accidents are the second leading cause of transport injuries , and the US Coastguard estimates that at least half of those accidents are alcohol-related . |
| 16 | King penguins are the second largest of all the penguin tribe , only exceeded in size by the emperor penguin which breeds on the sea ice of the cold Antarctic continent . |
| 17 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 18 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 19 | Those are the second generation . |
| 20 | A tidal acceleration is the difference between gravitational acceleration at different locations so that the corresponding parameters in curved space–time are the second derivatives of the metric connections . |
| 21 | Fruit and vegetables are the second most valuable item to South Africa 's economy and earned $119 million in 1987 — a fall of 5% on 1986 — reflecting the impact of consumer boycotts in the West . |
| 22 | We were the big trading nation , and even today we are the second largest by way of the percentage of GDP exported and imported — we are second only to West Germany . |
| 23 | We are the second most deprived local authority area in the country according to the Department of the Environment 's own indices . |
| 24 | These three periods are the second quarter of the eighteenth century , the two decades after the Napoleonic Wars , and the so-called Great Depression of the late Victorian period . |
| 25 | The coefficients B , A 2 , Γ 2 and B 3 , A 3 , Γ 3 , are the second and third virial coefficients . |
| 26 | The Indonesian government has responded to growing environmental criticism of its forestry policies by accepting a World Bank-sponsored plan aimed at promoting " sustainable development " of its forest reserves , which are the second largest in the world after Brazil . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly in this sprawling rural district the tories are the second largest grouping on the council and a couple of gains for them could deny the independents overall control . |
| 28 | We are the second lowest area for population density in the UK and the 13th lowest in the EC . ’ |
| 29 | Scottish parents are the second most generous , giving an average £4.50 a week . |
| 30 | We are the second biggest tubes supplier in Europe and No 3 in the United States . |