Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 2 | It would not , however , be possible for the third defendant to suggest that the third party was in any way guilty of any illegal conduct . |
| 3 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 4 | Tokyo : Stocks closed lower for the third consecutive trading day . |
| 5 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 6 | If so , this series is unlikely to have been conspicuous after the third quarter of the second century . |
| 7 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 8 | Some of the third party claims examined will be based upon recognised legal rights and obligations , but others are based upon certain needs in which some merit is recognised by members of the international community . |
| 9 | The second day , and some of the third , belonged to Andrew Hudson , who drew strength from the eerie vacuum to become the first to score a century on Test debut for South Africa in 104 years . |
| 10 | In what some believed to be a dummy run of tomorrow 's final , Jackie Lockhart 's team beat Christine Cannon 's Stranraer 8-7 in the third round . |
| 11 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 12 | The unknown 25-year-old fired a five under par 67 in the third round at Santa Ponsa to carry a one-stroke advantage into the final 18 holes tomorrow . |
| 13 | Vaccines against measles , polio , whooping cough and other killing infections prevalent in the third world are much more sensitive , however . |
| 14 | KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series . |
| 15 | As a matter of principle this seems excessively hard on third parties ; the buffer stock Manager was known publicly to be the representative of the International Tin Council , there was reliance upon this by the third parties and the States therefore should not be able later to deny their involvement . |
| 16 | ‘ The air is never of one self-colour only , but is often of two colours , with a little of the third . ’ |
| 17 | Some 97% of the equity-related bond issues were by Japanese companies ; the market reached a peak of $28 billion in the second quarter , easing back to $16 billion in each of the third and fourth . |
| 18 | The HyperCard is based on the above outline of document preparation systems , with tutorials corresponding to each of the third level of headings ( e.g. the computer industry , publishing industry , hardware , software ) . |
| 19 | This , in turn , should mean that Russia will receive foreign assistance equal to one-fifth of its national income in each of the third and fourth quarters . |
| 20 | Gold/silver medallions are awarded to candidates who gain First and Second Place worldwide , for each of the Third Level Group Diplomas . |
| 21 | In such situations the equation is not the same in the case of the confidant and that of the third party and accordingly the result may be different . |
| 22 | We understand that offence was caused by our slogan ‘ Strengthen the Christian Aid Poor ’ and that the general feeling was that poverty in UK/I is minimal in comparison to that of the Third World . |
| 23 | Agency new business increased in value and in the number of appointments in 1991 for the third consecutive year , according to the New Business Monitor compiled by Anthony Rau & Associates . |
| 24 | The rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest slowed during 1991 for the third year running , according to satellite evidence . |
| 25 | ‘ What are you staring at , Squib ? ’ he said , almost angrily , conscious that his cheeks were warm for the third time that afternoon . |
| 26 | With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary . |
| 27 | The evolutionary stage was now set for the third and final phase of dinosaur existence : the ‘ Age of Low Feeders ’ . |
| 28 | Since I have , on the one hand , declined to accept that non-recipients such as the third , fourth and fifth defendants are necessarily free from liability under section 6(2) and section 61(1) and , on the other hand , have criticised the form of order sought by the S.I.B . |
| 29 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 30 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |