Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cigarette smoking causes a third of all cancer deaths . |
| 2 | The new racism has a third important feature which enables it to slip through the rationalist approach of those who , with the best will in the world , reduce the problem of racism to the sum of power and prejudice . |
| 3 | Each carriage has a third control . |
| 4 | The quantum Hall effect provides a third independent method , so in principle comparison of three sets of results could check QED . |
| 5 | Present your recommendations to him and he 'll say well yeah I 'd like to think about it and you go off then oh fair enough then so you go back to the branch and the second becomes a third |
| 6 | One bar provides a third of the body 's daily nutritional requirements . |
| 7 | Let unc Inspection shows the third column to be the sum of the first two . |
| 8 | Your recent issue on how the end of the Cold War affects the Third World ( East Meets West , North Forgets South , NI 211 ) was welcome — but puzzling . |
| 9 | The Director keeps the third set of keys in his security cupboard , and the fourth are in a safe at Guy 's Marsh police station in case the alarm rings in the night . " |
| 10 | A snowy wasteland yields the third key , but only after a desperate struggle with its guardians , the Ice Soldiers . |
| 11 | When the phone rings a third time answer it . |
| 12 | Our results show that the pICAM-3 cDNA encodes a third ligand for LFA-1 and the LFA-1 binding site has been localized to domains I and II . |
| 13 | The bar chart shows what the average Westerner consumes in a year compared to a Third World person : the shaded area represents the Third World . |
| 14 | Umberto Allemandi & C 's end-of-year catalogue includes the third and penultimate book in the series Giorno per giorno nella pittura ( L200,000 ) , this volume by Federico Zeri on central Italian painting ( it excludes Tuscany , covered in the previous volume ) . |
| 15 | As Gilbert has suggested , ‘ Self-help keeps the Third World economy functioning ’ ( Gilbert and Gugler 1982 : 113 ) . |
| 16 | The problem arises where a debtor is required by a creditor to provide security for his indebtedness ; the debtor and creditor agree that the security will be provided by some third party ; the relationship between the debtor and the third party , typically husband and wife , makes it likely that the third party 's assistance will be forthcoming ; the debtor procures the third party 's consent by some material misrepresentation or by exerting undue pressure or influence of some kind ; the third party signs the necessary security documents without any independent advice and without any explanation from the creditor of the true effect of the documents ; the third party subsequently , as a defence to the creditor 's attempt to enforce the security documents , contends that he or she was induced to sign by the debtor 's material misrepresentation , or did not properly understand the import of the documents , or that his or her consent was not a true consent having regard to influence or pressure exerted by the debtor . |
| 17 | The Dutch government says a third of the country 's trees are dying because of drought and soil acidification . |
| 18 | Another aspect of routinisation reveals a third set of factors : the need for authoritative opinion . |
| 19 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 20 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 21 | Building on work already completed by the principal researcher ( funded by the DHSS ) , this project represents the third and final stage of a study of old age in rural Wales . |
| 22 | On the other hand , if Clubs are played before Spades , East wins the third round and can play a high trump , removing the last trump from dummy . |
| 23 | The company making the acquisition will need to decide : how the contract can protect it if the equipment or software fails to perform as it should ; about maintenance and training ; what to do if the software or hardware infringes a third party 's copyright or patent . |
| 24 | On completion of training the trainee becomes a third assistant purser and has the possibility for promotion up to head purser level but always dependent on the individual 's ability . |
| 25 | In this example , the clock shows the third month — so the product was made in March 1987 . |
| 26 | This year marks the Third Biennial . |
| 27 | Together with the C-terminal β -hairpin , this strand forms the third strand of an antiparallel β -sheet . |
| 28 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 29 | This system hits the Third World poor hardest . |
| 30 | A similar example of a type of assimilation that has become fixed is the progressive assimilation of voice with the suffixes and ; when a verb carries a third person singular ‘ -s ’ suffix , or a noun carries an ‘ -s ’ plural suffix or an' — ‘ s ’ possessive suffix , that suffix will be pronounced as if the preceding consonant is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and as if the preceding consonant is lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , thus : |