Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 It would not , however , be possible for the third defendant to suggest that the third party was in any way guilty of any illegal conduct .
2 Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop .
3 When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time .
4 If so , this series is unlikely to have been conspicuous after the third quarter of the second century .
5 Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) .
6 Vaccines against measles , polio , whooping cough and other killing infections prevalent in the third world are much more sensitive , however .
7 ‘ What are you staring at , Squib ? ’ he said , almost angrily , conscious that his cheeks were warm for the third time that afternoon .
8 The evolutionary stage was now set for the third and final phase of dinosaur existence : the ‘ Age of Low Feeders ’ .
9 My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore .
10 If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s .
11 A third party right can not be revoked or modified by the parties if it is established that the right was not intended to be so revocable or modifiable without the third party 's consent .
12 When a payment is required to be made to a third party ( trader , government , etc. ) the bank depositor draws , i.e. writes , a cheque on his bank payable to the third party .
13 That is that industrialised agriculture in its current form is neither sustainable nor exportable to the Third World .
14 First units to Saudi Arabia left the US in May and shipments will continue monthly during the third quarter of 1993 .
15 What fuels such defensive reactions , whether against real or imaginary threats , is a combination of international population movements with the ultra-rapid , fundamental and unprecedented socio-economic transformations so characteristic of the third quarter of our century .
16 Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World .
17 Economic barriers to book publishing remains constant throughout the Third World .
18 A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview .
19 The fry hatch in 24–48 hours , depending on the temperature of the water and are free-swimming on the third or fourth day when their first food should be rotifers , liquid fry food or other small foods , followed by newly-hatched brine shrimp .
20 Tom , a professional engineer , set up the company 5 years ago after being made redundant for the third time .
21 Harvey produced a key for the third and a red light came on over each lock .
22 He spoke briefly of the responsibility the rich owe to the poor of the Third World .
23 I saw it at its best , in April , when it was well above the third magnitude , and dominated the whole area ; at that stage it was strongly orange-red .
24 Notice how the chord at the end of the intro phrase is the 1st inversion C major : C/E , or C major with the third ( E ) in the bass .
25 How , we may ask , can a country like Egypt , by no means the poorest or most vulnerable in the Third World , find itself in this position ?
26 I think it was about halfway round the third lap that John Walker made his mark on me .
27 One group is developing hardware for a personal computer , sufficiently robust and inexpensive to be useful in the Third World .
28 They assumed that it was legal before the third month , and only illegal when procured .
29 They assumed it was legal before the third month [ before quickening ] , and only outside the law when procured by another person ’ .
30 The numbers change but the plight of the poor in the Third World is still the greatest issue of our times .
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