Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 2 | They were thought to have been driven away by a third man in a stolen Golf GTi . |
| 3 | At present the language still has to be adopted commercially by a third party . |
| 4 | He did not disclose the substance of the Libyan suggestions but a delegate at the meeting told Reuters : ‘ Libya 's proposals are still along the lines of its known positions , that the two could be tried only in a third country and not in the United States or Britain . ’ |
| 5 | TOP STORES were slammed yesterday after a third of their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs . |
| 6 | This is brought about by a third type of neurone , which forms synapses close to the synaptic terminals of the sensory cells . |
| 7 | This exercise was carried out by a third year group in a secondary school studying a cholera epidemic . |
| 8 | For walking scenes involving the full-size model , only the upper half appeared , making things easier for the puppeteer underneath , since the weight was reduced by about a third . |
| 9 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 10 | Following the narrow victory of the Dominica Freedom Party ( DFP ) in the general election of May 28 [ see pp. 37448-49 ] , Eugenia Charles was sworn in for a third consecutive five-year term as Prime Minister and in early June announced sweeping changes to her Cabinet . |