Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Certain aspects of the Third Reich in the Second World War . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Only in the first two minutes of the third round did we see Eubank looking anything like his best performances against Michael Watson and Nigel Benn . |
| 17 | Ironically , the sudden realization by the oil states of the Third World that they possess a powerful weapon capable of commanding world attention and respect adds a new element of self-interest to this wider sense of common human identity . |
| 18 | And the cities of the Third World often have unpaved roads . |
| 19 | Typically , in one of the first debates about inner cities of the third Thatcher term , Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , justified his aggressively business led strategy , introducing more Urban Development Corporations : |
| 20 | The discovery of Italian bronze coins of the third century BC in the area of modern Yugoslavia may perhaps indicate the presence there of individual pilgrims , tourists , soldiers or traders from Italy , in much the same way that the presence of hundreds of thousands of Islamic silver coins in Viking hoards of the eighth to tenth centuries is a reflection of the eastward penetration of Viking traders , who exchanged objects such as furs , slaves and amber for silver coinage . |
| 21 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 22 | At the opposite end of the graven floor , a second mighty bowl held darker balls , composed no doubt of the bodily secretions of the third degree likewise embalmed in amber . |
| 23 | One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords . |
| 24 | But there were important differences between America and Russia in the Middle East and other areas of the Third World in 1970 , the year in which Brandt signed non-aggression treaties with the USSR and Poland . |
| 25 | Furthermore , this identification of modernity with life in industrial societies contrasts them with all preindustrial societies ( both in a historical sense and in those countries of the Third World that have barely been touched by industrialism ) . |
| 26 | They contended that pornography , lawlessness and other social disorders have been carried from the more permissive societies of the West , via the mass media , to the countries of the Third World . |
| 27 | The countries of the Third World in particular need them desperately for medical purposes , as the synthesized drugs are so expensive . |
| 28 | Whereas the role of executive princess touring the troubled countries of the Third World has gone to the Princess Royal , there has lately been much written on the theme of the Princess of Wales as ‘ caring princess ’ . |
| 29 | Among the non-aligned countries of the Third World , that 's a very common view . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |