Example sentences of "[noun] at the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abdominal aspect of the sacrum in males displays a uniform curve with the deepest part of the hollow at the third segment ; whereas in females , the upper portion is flattened and the lower portion sharply angulated ( the deepest part being at the fourth segment ) . |
| 2 | Personally , I am sorry for the upsets at the third Test in Manchester , but many of our players are very young and keen . |
| 3 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 4 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 5 | These methods of construction , notably turf on a stone platform , employed at two of the three sites , timber gates at one at least and a palisade at the third , possess a martial appearance which remains unmatched at any other towns in Britain , where earthwork fortifications were normally of unrevetted dump construction , using material either scraped up from the surface or derived from digging ditches . |
| 6 | Eastern Europe was the focus for new resolutions at the Third Congress of the European Federation of Community Radios ( FERL ) held in Austria in May . |
| 7 | There was an anxious moment in the first half when he caught the ball at the third attempt , but overall he was sound . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 9 | Vizigothic in origin , with its Bishop Boèce at the Third Toledo Council in 589 , and worth besieging in 673 , it shared in the collapse of the Spanish kingdom of Toledo , and the Muslims moved in , though not for long . |
| 10 | Discussions on these and other subjects , which started at the first consultation two years ago , will be developed further next August at the Third Indonesian Consultation on Theology and Communication . |
| 11 | It was better yesterday , with no bogeys and three birdies at the third , eighth and 15th , where he argued with John Scrivener , chairman of the R&A Rules committee , over a free drop he did not get . |
| 12 | Prosser , now a clear favourite to complete a maiden victory as a professional , had a slight hiccup when she found sand to lose a shot at the short second before birdies at the third and sixth carried her to the turn in 35 , one under . |
| 13 | Ferguson salvaged at least a point from another tough assignment , the first of the season at the third attempt . |
| 14 | Leaving the lift at the third floor , instead of the fourth , he stood outside Alexandra 's front door , listening . |
| 15 | John Orange , chief executive of BP Oil UK was the guest speaker at the third Faculty of Freight Court meeting held in London recently . |
| 16 | He missed most of last season but has run well this term and was certainly going as strongly as anything before making a mistake at the third last in the Gold Cup . |
| 17 | NORTH Down have an extra special reason for wishing to haul themselves out of the Harp International League at the third attempt … next season heralds the Comber club 's centenary year . |
| 18 | Among the next few months ' highlights are Borderline 's production of Dario Fo 's Mistero Buffo at the King 's Theatre with that man Robbie Coltrane again ( Feb ) ; The Art of Print , a survey of European Print Masters at the Hunterian Art Gallery ( Jan-Apr ) ; a new production of Pirandello 's Enrico Four at the Citizens Theatre ( Feb ) ; Steven Campbell 's first one-man show in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre ( Mar ) and Freaks by the Companie Genevieve de Kermabon at Tramway ( Mar ) . |
| 19 | The Daily Mirror/Sporting Life Derby hero loomed up menacingly behind Manx Treasure at the third bend . |
| 20 | Gorbachev and Kohl , after talks in Stavropol , reach agreement that a united Germany is free to join whichever bloc it wishes , allowing agreement on external aspects of unification at the third round of two-plus-four talks on July 17 in Paris , which were also attended by the Polish Foreign Minister [ p. 37659 ] . |
| 21 | The committee reported that all teams had completed the tasks successfully and it agreed to initial a protocol of the joint inspection at the third session to be held in Beijing in November . |
| 22 | ‘ They defused the first two and had three attempts at the third , but on the third attempt it blew up killing a major and his assistant lost his right arm when a hatch-door blew off . ’ |
| 23 | Winchelsey 's pre-eminent objective had been to ensure that clerical taxation by the crown — conceded in principle at the Third Lateran Council in 1179 — was subject to clerical consent and was collected and managed by the clergy , a necessary corollary to their freedom of consent . |
| 24 | Fenton was tracked down by police after leaving the vital clue at the third burglary . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Mario da Graça Machungo called for international assistance to increase production and improve social services at the third consultative group meeting co-ordinated by the World Bank for Mozambique in Paris on Nov. 16 , 1989 . |
| 26 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |