Example sentences of "[art] third [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book falls into three parts , the first on knowledge , the second on justification , the third on forms of knowledge . |
| 2 | Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government ( 1969 ) ( Redcliffe-Maude Report ) ( among the research studies undertaken for the Royal Commission were one on Economies of Scale in Local Government , another on the Performance and Size of Local Education Authorities , and a third on Aspects of Administration in a Large Local Authority ) ; |
| 3 | Three different assistant directors had responsibilities relating to children with disabilities — one for under fives , another for older children and their families , and a third for adults with physical and learning disabilities ! |
| 4 | The claim of the ‘ good ’ characters to the Wagenburg treasure is no better justified than that of the rival party under Ellis , even if his murder of a secret service man does inspire Jonathan Mansel , who makes a third with Chandos and Hanbury , and who heard the dying man 's last words , to engage upon the adventure : |
| 5 | A third of controls with negative cultures , however , were also positive for M tuberculosis complex . |
| 6 | Writing in the British Medical Journal recently , she points out that between a quarter and a third of 15-year-olds smoke . |
| 7 | We have been paying them in England since 21 February and virtually a third of claims have been met . |
| 8 | There are no traceable physical defects , although around a third of cases have associated handicaps such as epilepsy or spasticity . |
| 9 | Within private care where the element of choice might have been thought to be an advantage it was found that a third of residents did not choose , and for 22 per cent the unsolicited efforts of either a relative , the general practitioner or a social worker led to their admission ( Weaver et al . , |
| 10 | ‘ Introduction ’ as a title for an album by Mr Fingers is a joke : he 's been hardcore , soul-House , deep acid , acid ; half of The It , a third of Fingers Inc , all of Gherkin Jerks and Mr Fingers . |
| 11 | It says nearly a third of women think their cars are dirty compared with one in five men . |
| 12 | A THIRD of women prisoners have no previous convictions , compared with 11 per cent of men , says a new report . |
| 13 | Since the late 1960s most women have had sex before marriage — increasing from at least a third of women who were married in the late 1950s to three-quarters of women married in the early 1970s ( Dunnell 1979 ) . |
| 14 | A third of services were to take off sick crewmen . |
| 15 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 16 | The appointment of a practice manager was regarded as important by a third of firms with over fifty staff and the findings show that management systems tend to be much better developed in firms where decision making is in the hands of a single practice manager rather than , for example , in committee meetings of the whole partnership . |
| 17 | If all women aged over 35 years were screened , possibly around a third of births could be prevented . |
| 18 | About a third of products are manufactured overseas . |
| 19 | A Crookes spokeswoman said : ‘ Bedtimers was launched after research showed that a third of parents gave their children adult hot chocolate drinks . |
| 20 | A Crookes spokeswoman said : ‘ Bedtimers was launched after research showed a third of parents gave children adult hot chocolate drinks . |
| 21 | Up to a third of parents involved in child abuse are heavy drinkers . |
| 22 | Task allocation was mentioned in over a third of agreements , its relative frequency indicating the importance of such matters to trade union activity . |
| 23 | Parents employment — a third of mothers of children under five are in employment . |
| 24 | Up to a third of mothers using such facilities have no job , except for day nurseries where 60–70 per cent of the mothers are employed ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ) . |
| 25 | Out of the married women sector , who accounted for about a third of abortions in 1980 , about 3% were because of Reason Four . |
| 26 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 27 | But college life is no picnic , admit Barclays , who sign up nearly a third of students . |
| 28 | Staff questionnaires have also been used to a limited extent in many schools , but only a third of teachers had made considerable use of this method . |
| 29 | A third of teachers thought their report was not very judgmental , about a half thought them fairly judgmental and only 9 per cent thought them very judgmental , a further 10 per cent being unsure on this . |
| 30 | A third of respondents , however , blamed damage on their own clumsiness , and nine in ten admitted having spilled at least one or a combination of the following on themselves ; coffee , tea , correction fluid , tea , copier toner , water , cold drinks and glue . |