Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST before Budget Day we told the story of the Brentford Football Club fan who occupies a senior post at the Treasury and we expected a giveaway Budget if Brentford were leading the Third Division table at the time . |
| 2 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
| 3 | The Bill was given a Third Reading on 20th July and became law on 14th August , 1855 , with the short title , The Downing Street Public Offices Extension Act 1855 , but it was not until the following March that the Office of Works circulated the necessary notices to the tenants of property to be acquired . |
| 4 | They made one minor amendment on timing ; it was given a Third Reading on 5th April , and sent to the Lords . |
| 5 | The Bill was given a Third Reading in the House of Lords on 26 October 1965 by 169 votes to 75 . |
| 6 | Before the Vancouver summit with Boris Yeltsin , the Russian leader , he was devoting a third of his time to the summit agenda . |
| 7 | Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed , Prime Minister since 1981 , was seeking a third term and led an 11-party multiracial National Front coalition ( Barisan Nasional ) , which held 133 seats in the outgoing parliament . |
| 8 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 9 | Broca 's ( 1861 ) contribution ( for a review of the very early literature see Benton ( 1964 ) ) was to identify the third frontal convolution of the left hemisphere as the " centre " for " articulate speech " . |
| 10 | It was when he was testing the third of those with his stethoscope that Carrington beckoned to Talbot , who came and listened in turn . |
| 11 | , Sir Andrew ( c. 1492–1558 ) , merchant and alderman of London and founder of Tonbridge School , was born the third son of John Judde , gentleman , of Tonbridge , Kent , and his wife Margaret , daughter of Valentine Chiche and grand-niece of Archbishop Henry Chichele [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | The function of the secondary speakers was to give a third dimension to the acoustical properties of the recording , and thus provide extra realism . |
| 13 | By the time he moved to Aberdeen University in 1979 , becoming head of the department of politics and international relations , he was spending a third of his time researching and writing on it . |
| 14 | Allies and Morrison won the second prize of £1,500 and Peter Clash was awarded the third prize of £1,000 . |