Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 2 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 3 | We should consider what happens when one moving body comes into contact with another : ‘ what way , and with what swiftness , the invaded body shall move ; and , again , what motion this second body will generate in a third . ’ |
| 4 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 5 | Furthermore , external auditors are left with a very difficult decision as to whether they should report to a third party if they suspect the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 6 | The panel would have responsibility for counselling the external assessors on whether they should report to a third party when they suspect that the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 7 | Solid sulphur can also exist in a third allotropic form-plastic sulphur . |
| 8 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 9 | There was no way she 'd respond to a third degree , so I was hoping she 'd decide I was harmless . |
| 10 | To change from clockwise to anticlockwise it must go through a third dimension to become a mirror image . |
| 11 | He will end with a third in the final chord , even when he omits the fifth , and both he and Crecquillon anticipate Palestrina in the climactic use of great descending scales often in thirds , sixths , or tenths — as at the end of his ‘ Jerusalem surge ’ : or the end of Crecquillon 's ‘ Ingemuit Susanna ’ . |
| 12 | Of the single unitary voyage , worth 1.00,0.61 will have contributed to the election of Paisley , 0.10 will have contributed to the election of Craig , and 0.29 can pass to a third candidate ; and should that candidate be consequently elected with a transferable surplus , the 0.29 of a vote can , down-valued yet again , pass to yet a fourth candidate . |
| 13 | History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Unless we move immediately into high growth , high technology areas our standard of living and quality of life will deteriorate and we will degenerate into a Third World nation . |
| 15 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 16 | As a result it has seen sales climb by a third in the first four months of this year . |
| 17 | However , even under this scenario the amount of crushed rock which would be required from land based sources in Wales would rise by a third . |
| 18 | However , even under this scenario the amount of crushed rock which would be required from land based sources in Wales would rise by a third . |