Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | COLCHESTER sailor Richard Merriweather has told of the trials of the deep after completing the third leg of a round-the-world yacht race . |
| 2 | Richie Richardson 's side slumped to 233 all out — 162 runs short of Australia 's first innings total of 395 — after starting the third day on 62-3 . |
| 3 | Edberg appeared a bit off form but seemed on his way to yet another dramatic five-set win after taking the third set . |
| 4 | This was compounded in her case when she jumped 20 places on the world computer in 1987 after reaching the third round at Edgbaston . |
| 5 | This was compounded in her case when she jumped 20 places on the world computer in 1987 after reaching the third round at Edgbaston . |
| 6 | As the Conservative party is on the point of becoming the third party in a four-party country at the by-election later this week , is it not time that the Government stopped giving Scotland what it does not want — nuclear waste and nuclear energy — and instead gave Scotland what it wants , which is direct encouragement for renewable energies in a country which the Minister himself described as rich in potential for such developments ? |
| 7 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 8 | Adversely affected in the 1970s by the United Kingdom 's entry to the European Communities and by fluctuating oil prices , New Zealand declined from a position of having the third highest standard of living ( as measured by per capita GDP ) in 1951 to 15th in 1971 and 23rd by 1991 . |
| 9 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 10 | he 's recommended to her that instead of making the third bedroom bigger , to make four bedrooms because it would increase the value of the house more . |
| 11 | What it does offer , however , is the possibility of digitising the third dimension with a signal passing through the object being digitised to give a measure of its thickness . |
| 12 | The US government as such has no interest in rendering the Third World unable to feed itself . |
| 13 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 14 | The nearest he came to winning a round in my book was in sharing the third , after delivering a heavy right hand that briefly staggered Eubank — whose ability to take a punch is well-documented . |
| 15 | Health Service Managers have been invited to express interest in joining the third wave of NHS Trusts , scheduled to come into operation on 1 April 1993 . |
| 16 | When therefore I perceived that there were three species of liberty which are essential to the happiness of social life , religious , domestic and civil , and as I 've already written concerning the first , and the magistrates were strenuously active in obtaining the third , I determined to turn my attention to the second , or the domestic species . |
| 17 | The facts and skills in geometry , such as calculating the third angle of a triangle , are relatively trivial and appear to have little practical relevance . |
| 18 | Later this year the DTI will be issuing a consultative document on its proposals for implementing the Third Life Insurance Directive , which is due to come into operation by mid-1994 and which will enable an insurer to offer insurance anywhere in the Community on the basis of a single authorisation in the state where its head office is situated . |
| 19 | Slavery is the key to unlocking the third chamber of Kane 's theorem about why blacks excel in sport : ‘ Of all the physical and psychological theories about the American black 's excellence in sport , none has proved more controversial than one of the least discussed : that slavery weeded out the weak ’ ( Kane , 1971 , p.80 ) . |
| 20 | … when it comes to giving the third year grades I find it really difficult , with some kids you say ‘ well they ought to have a ‘ B ’ , ’ but I ca n't give them a ‘ B ’ because there are n't any ‘ B's left … |
| 21 | By adopting the third directive on life assurance , the European Commission cleared the way for a single European insurance market . |
| 22 | Rush , the Echo 's Liverpool Man-of-the-Match winner last season , has carried his scoring form into the summer by notching the third goal in Wales ' 3–0 World Cup win over the Faroe Islands last weekend . |
| 23 | Other insects attract their mates by exploiting the third of the senses , smell . |
| 24 | Data records with index fields less than or equal to 45 can be found by following the left pointer ; greater than 45 and less than or equal to 86 can be found by following the middle pointer ; and records greater than 86 by following the third pointer . |