Example sentences of "[v-ing] to the third " in BNC.

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1 This comprises a shower room and WC , a dry-goods store , a larder , the passage leading to the third bedroom and the kitchen .
2 The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals .
3 Turning to the third question , repeat doses of activated charcoal are thought to act in several ways .
4 Turning to the third category , of strokes that serve to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes that either precede or follow , we could call them ‘ separation strokes ’ We find strokes in such patterns as shown in ex.3a so overwhelmingly , that we can identify sporadic dots as shrunken strokes .
5 All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary .
6 Tom asked , pointing to the third figure .
7 The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report .
8 Referring to the third stage of negotiations between Israel and its neighbours , he warned that if the Arab negotiators continued to raise the question of the occupied territories " placing them at the centre of discussions … we shall know that their intentions are not directed towards peace " .
9 The Annales school attempts to deal with this issue by appealing to the third category identified by Braudel — that of événements ; but to say quite what événements are is no easy task .
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