Example sentences of "be [verb] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 2 | They do n't want me paying d you know like their pension deferred , so if you 're serious about the fu pension fund managers paying , we 're talking y you know earlier you said four hundred and eighty million whatever it is lost , they 're paying a third , pension fund managers have got to come up with that sort of sum . |
| 3 | you 're talking a third more . |
| 4 | How many degrees would it be to go a third of the way round the circle ? |
| 5 | To these should be added a third group , which are not so abundant in terms of volume , but which are equally important . |
| 6 | To these should be added a third consideration , transparency . |
| 7 | In addition to London , Tyzack has an office in Bristol and will shortly be opening a third UK branch in the North . |
| 8 | I 'm doing a third year I 'll be twenty four |
| 9 | After all , here you are in Nicole 's hotel bedroom , obviously believing that you were n't going to be finding a third party here as well . |
| 10 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 11 | After this committee , the Bill returns to the House to be read a third time , after which it is transmitted to the other House and , if successful there , submitted for the Royal Assent . |
| 12 | Now we are entering a third period of change : the shift from the command-and-control organization , the organization of departments and divisions , to the information-based organization , the organization of knowledge specialists . |
| 13 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
| 14 | Below is an extract of conversation between two policemen who are telling a third about a cot death the two of them had recently attended . |
| 15 | SQUEAKY voiced Lene Lovich , who hit the pop charts 13 years ago with a bizarre song called Lucky Number and whose dancing debut three years later , as Mata Hari , was received less kindly , is pursuing a third career — as a novelist . |
| 16 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 17 | YOUNG mum Angie Wilson is praying for a speedy end to her homeless heartache for she is expecting a third baby in just nine weeks time . |
| 18 | Carol , 24 , has two children ; Charlene , seven , and Christopher , three , and is expecting a third in October . |
| 19 | er and that 's getting a third two walls and erm an alcove with erm two glass sliding doors and then erm single wardrobe and you 've got the |
| 20 | AI urges King Jigme to release the last remaining known prisoner of conscience , Tek Nath Rizal , who is starting a third year in detention without trial at Wangdi Phodrang Prison . |
| 21 | The policy behind Article 35 is to protect a third party from undesired obligations and to make that party 's consent the basis of any such obligations . |
| 22 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 23 | It is believed a third man drove the getaway car , a red Ford Escort XR3 , which made off towards Horrocks Avenue . |
| 24 | Now it is making a third bid for influence . |
| 25 | Finally , for three weekends beginning on 8 May , the artists ' quarter of Saint Gilles is hosting a third series of ‘ Parcours d'Artistes ’ an opportunity for experts and general public alike to visit artists ‘ at home ’ in their studios and view some of their works . |
| 26 | THE Queen Mother is to spend a third night in hospital before being discharged tomorrow . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They made one minor amendment on timing ; it was given a Third Reading on 5th April , and sent to the Lords . |
| 29 | The Bill was given a Third Reading in the House of Lords on 26 October 1965 by 169 votes to 75 . |
| 30 | Before the Vancouver summit with Boris Yeltsin , the Russian leader , he was devoting a third of his time to the summit agenda . |