Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 31 | Normalising : unc The same principle serves for the third root . |
| 32 | He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them . |
| 33 | Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle . |
| 34 | The limbs of the fallen figure in the snake-cup show through the clothes , a feature recorded in Polygnotos 's work and which reappears in the third Sotades cup , again fragmentary , with a charming picture of girls ( perhaps Hesperides ) picking apples . |
| 35 | The poem dates from the third millennium BC , and is a eulogistic account of the life of King Gilgamesh of Uruk in Mesopotamia . |
| 36 | The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century . |
| 37 | The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry . |
| 38 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 39 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 40 | The foot , the bottom , the abyss , that beckons for the third consecutive season . |
| 41 | This could be a formidable task in a society where even widely travelled soldiers firmly believed that Thomas Cook 's wagon-lits were the spearheads of the Third International since the latter word could be read in Cyrillic on the side of carriages . |
| 42 | The distinction between knowing and doing is by no means clear-cut , but the real problem arises with the third stance identified in Figure 2.1 , that of ‘ being ’ . |
| 43 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |
| 44 | The answer comes from the third element of classical foundationalism ; this is that our beliefs about our present sensory states are infallible . |
| 45 | Look at the connections Blake makes in the third and fourth stanzas . |
| 46 | Second stage recovery generally begins in the third year . |
| 47 | Children enjoyed the VISTA visits according to the questionnaire returns in the third year ; they liked meeting scientists and learning about a range of jobs . |
| 48 | During this year , seconded to an ESRC personal research grant , Professor Davies works on the third and fourth volumes of Industrialisation , and together with Dr Wheatcroft begins preparation of a book summarising their findings on quantitative aspects of Soviet economic development . |