Example sentences of "the [noun sg] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 2 | Fifteenth the second the third . |
| 3 | Right on the whistle the third division team almost broke the post with a shot … they made a game of it … but at 3-2 Swindon were cruising … |
| 4 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |
| 5 | Bully Boy , who had been backed from 20-1 down to 9-1 , was a fence clear by the time the third obstacle was jumped and , despite making a terrible blunder at the fifth , he never looked likely to be challenged . |
| 6 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 7 | The Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young affiliate firms , Showa Ota and Asahi Shinwa , were at the time the third and fourth largest auditors in Japan , with fee incomes of around Y10bn each . |
| 8 | It 's loud , certainly , but by the time the third track , ‘ Earth Mofo ’ , kicks into gear the pattern of stodgy , leaden and downright lazy arrangements has already been well-established . |