Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was an anxious moment in the first half when he caught the ball at the third attempt , but overall he was sound . |
| 6 | Ferguson salvaged at least a point from another tough assignment , the first of the season at the third attempt . |
| 7 | Leaving the lift at the third floor , instead of the fourth , he stood outside Alexandra 's front door , listening . |
| 8 | John Orange , chief executive of BP Oil UK was the guest speaker at the third Faculty of Freight Court meeting held in London recently . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Daily Mirror/Sporting Life Derby hero loomed up menacingly behind Manx Treasure at the third bend . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fenton was tracked down by police after leaving the vital clue at the third burglary . |
| 16 | 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 . |