Example sentences of "but [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 2 | But after the third double Vladivar , they were eager , almost desperate , to get back at the bottle . |
| 3 | It was Branwell , who suggested that the Harworth parsonage should publish its own magazine , but after the third issue , it was Charlotte who took over the leadership from him . |
| 4 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 5 | It was growing uncomfortably warm inside the pod , but with the third skin gone there was a transparent patch in the casing shell level with his face . |
| 6 | I 've been lucky enough to get two lots through , but with the third lot I did n't succeed . |
| 7 | For example , in the solo waltz the dancer marks the three beats of a waltz in roughly every other bar , usually with her feet , but in the third musical phrase she poses in arabesque and marks the beat by gradually lowering her hand three times . |
| 8 | But in the third , the relationship between job type and absenteeism disappears when the existence of nervous disorders is brought under control . |
| 9 | ‘ In the first set , I was just trying to get the ball back in play but in the third set my confidence really came back , ’ he said . |
| 10 | But these must wait , because they are no longer in Basse-Navarre but in the third Basque province of the Soule , to which I shall be coming in a moment . |
| 11 | But in the third and second centuries B.C. trends of thought emerged which reduced the distance between Greeks and non-Greeks . |
| 12 | In The Form he comments that in the first two degrees it is possible to say " I languysch for lufe " or " Me langes in lufe " ( 106.53 – 4 ) but in the third degree all is comfort and joy . |
| 13 | But in the third quarter of the nineteenth century the contradictions were perhaps at their most acute : effort and enjoyment coexisted , but clashed . |
| 14 | But in the third and final part of his expectations , Pip redeems himself by his loyalty towards Magwitch and his attempt to make things up to Joe and Biddy and his pursuit of the truth . |
| 15 | Not at first , maybe , but from the third game on . |
| 16 | Likewise the second night passed without incident , but on the third night , when I was tidying away papers in my office , a dishevelled deputy Sister came in . |
| 17 | But on the third occasion both the board and the candidate faced the issue squarely . |
| 18 | The first two nights passed uneventfully , but on the third night , Ted heard the sound of heavy breathing which seemed to come from the armchair . |
| 19 | But on the third night we heard someone trying to get into our room followed by a gunshot . |
| 20 | For two days nothing happened , but on the third morning I checked the tank and found that the fish had spawned . |
| 21 | On the first two touches , it shifted , and she could n't get a grip on it , but on the third attempt , she clasped it between her toes . |
| 22 | ‘ They defused the first two and had three attempts at the third , but on the third attempt it blew up killing a major and his assistant lost his right arm when a hatch-door blew off . ’ |
| 23 | I cleared the bar at the first height , then at the second height , but on the third attempt I knocked the bar over . |
| 24 | The mere wear-and-tear of the prolonged firing contributed to German losses ; after superhuman efforts , one of the monster 420s had been moved up to the Bois des Fosses in order to knock out Fort Souville , but on the third shot a shell exploded in the worn barrel , killing almost the entire crew . |
| 25 | Up to now all has been plain sailing but at the third row you have a straight arrow indicating to select needles again and transfer with the lace carriage and you have only just transferred stitches the other way without working two knit rows between . |
| 26 | Also , for most communities infant mortality was reported to be lowest not at the second but at the third — in some communities even at the fourth — order . |
| 27 | But by the third edition Spock had withdrawn a longish way from the doctrine that natural loving care cures all ills . |
| 28 | For the first two hundred years of the Roman influence in Britain , the bodies of the dead were usually cremated , but by the third century they were burying them instead . |
| 29 | But by the third quarter of the nineteenth century , with an efficient railway service and a telegraphic system , road transport was no longer relied on and the two largest funeral furnishing houses , Messrs Dottridge of London and Ingall , Parsons & Clive of Birmingham , were dealing with telegraphic orders dispatched by rail , to reach any part of Great Britain within two days . |