Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | MacRae dismissed his case notes for the third stage as ‘ rubbish ’ . |
| 2 | I retire to the toilets for the third time in the space of ten minutes . |
| 3 | I am afraid I could only manage part of the meal and I cut out the second and third courses completely , and only had gravy and vegetables for the third , but most people at my table went right through the menu ! |
| 4 | CHILD star Macauley Culkin 's Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York has topped US box office takings for the third week in a row , earning Pounds 8 million . |
| 5 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 6 | Several European governments and the European Commission provide funds to pay part of the costs of public information and education programmes about the Third World . |
| 7 | If the glorifying speeches and writings of subleaders during the Third Reich itself are no proof of this , the behaviour of Nazi leaders arraigned at Nuremberg and post-war memoirs ( for all their obvious apologetics ) demonstrate it conclusively . |
| 8 | The cuts are despite what it says will be record turnover and unit shipments for the third quarter just ended , and operating profits for the quarter ‘ comfortably above ’ 1992 third quarter levels . |
| 9 | It was rebuilt in the 19th century as an extravagant and idealized vision of the Middle Ages for the third Marquis of the Bute by the architect William Burges . |
| 10 | Churt hit five goals for the third week running in the Surrey Intermediate Premier Division Two . |
| 11 | THE smart navy uniform of the Alresford Quadrilateral Division of St. John Ambulance were exchanged last Saturday for clown costumes and brilliant wigs for the third annual bed-push to raise funds . |
| 12 | P&O EUROPEAN FERRIES ( Portsmouth ) are acting as Principal Sponsor of the Chichester Festivities for the third year running . |
| 13 | Portraits of the famous Roman emperors are known from a large number of other sources , principally sculpture , but for many of the Hellenistic kings or Roman emperors of the third century AD , coins provide the only portrait evidence . |
| 14 | We can see from their coins that the portraits of Roman emperors of the third century AD were individualised , but the identification of their three-dimensional portraits is still difficult because not many survive ( a result in part , at least , of the very short life expectancy of an emperor during this troubled period ) . |
| 15 | Donald Unwin , chief engineer at the association 's Testing and Research Laboratory , said ‘ Many manufacturers just do not look at the problem through the eyes of the Third World countries . |
| 16 | There were some Gaullists , like Brossolette , who hoped , in light of the apparent ideological convergence between the General and the Resistance in 1942 – 43 , that Gaullism might evolve into a permanent political movement , a broad progressive " rally " ( " rassemblement " ) to replace the discredited political parties of the Third Republic . |
| 17 | Supporters of the third principle may claim that the reason rape is prohibited is that its perpetration deprives the raped of their chances to live according to their conception of the good . |
| 18 | Notice that the thought that in principle a would-be rapist should be compensated for giving up the right to rape is implicit in the answer of the supporters of the third principle as well . |
| 19 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 20 | The Tritocerebrum is formed by the ganglia of the third or intercalary segment of the head and is composed mainly of fibres and synapses between the brain , suboesophageal ganglia and frontal ganglion connectives ( Willey , 1961 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Certain aspects of the Third Reich in the Second World War . ’ |
| 22 | One of the visible contradictions of the Third World that is apparent in Latin America is the spread of sophisticated and technological forms of mass media in poverty-stricken areas . |
| 23 | We take it for granted , but it is important that the emergent nations of the Third World — themselves , many of them , deeply divided culturally , linguistically and genetically — should see what we have achieved , and where we have fallen short . |
| 24 | The second theme that interests me is implicit in the opening paragraphs of the third of the published papers , ‘ Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic ’ . |
| 25 | Not a modest one like St Asaph , where the gong and tam-tam crescendos of the third movement would be damagingly deafening , but in some vast Gothic building where the acoustic reverberations would be as effective as the spiritual associations in enhancing the effect of the piece . |
| 26 | I 've done the Chopin Second Sonata and Four Ballades again ( hopefully , I play them better now ) , also Prokofiev 's Eighth Sonata , though that is coupled with my first recordings of the Third and Seventh Sonatas . |
| 27 | One of the great bonuses of The Third Age is time — time to spare for other people , even if it is only to listen to what they have to say . |
| 28 | Even in high-dirt content homoerotic love pictures like The Third Love Painting ( 1960 ) , it looks as though the humping is taking place inside a womb-like washing-machine . |
| 29 | Strong and justified pressures for a New International Economic Order also make it imperative for the implications of Europe 's relationships with the Third World to be taken into serious account . |
| 30 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |