Example sentences of "[v-ing] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new drum corps of McNeillstown scored their first success of the season by winning best drums with the band gaining third overall placing . |
| 2 | Finshing third , provided they were one of the four successful stragglers , would leave England to play the winners of Group D , West Germany 's group , in Milan or Group C , probably Brazil , in Turin . |
| 3 | A study of laundry cleaning products ( detergents and soaps ) in Barbados ( James , 1983 ) , shows in detail how TNCs go about transforming consumption needs and capturing Third World markets . |
| 4 | The World Bank was last year reported to be in the throes of an anguished debate between its environmental unit and its energy department over the best way of enlisting Third World support for curbing greenhouse gases . |
| 5 | Faced with the prospect of partial closure if it ca n't convince its parent that it has a viable future serving third party customers , IBM France SA 's plant is energetically laying plans to exploit its skills in chip packaging , in particular IBM 's proprietary technology for surface-mounting chips on multi-layer ceramic substrates to create multi-chip modules . |
| 6 | Clearly , this standardised approach to search and retrieval is a major publishing limitation , all the more significant because Sony do not think of themselves as publishers and are seeking third parties to support their platform . |
| 7 | Broad groupings of this kind are typically based upon the nature of the political system and the stage of economic development of the countries included , such as the threefold distinction between western market-industrialised societies , communist states and developing Third World countries . |
| 8 | The Bank is also considering introducing environmental safeguards into its controversial structural adjustment programmes ( blamed by environmentalists for forcing third world countries to despoil their environmental heritage in the quest for Northern-style economic prosperity ) . |
| 9 | One of the former Scotland manager 's old teams , Airdrie , visit Somerset Park today — on a day when the Premier Division clubs have no matches as Scotland play on Wednesday — lying third in the First Division and keen to maintain form which has helped them overcome an uncertain beginning . |
| 10 | The Banshee came to grief two minutes off the start while lying third , a length down on the leader , Red Alligator . |
| 11 | The Second Division outfit , who had a magnificent 18–14 win at Salford , now face a Saints ' side lying third in the Stones Bitter Championship . |
| 12 | I was lying third . |
| 13 | Davies still lying third |
| 14 | It will also create a new ITV company , valued at about £90m , lying third in the league table behind Central in the Midlands and Carlton in London . |
| 15 | But with Clydebank losing to Morton , Airdrie have moved a point clear at the top of the table with Falkirk occupying third spot . |
| 16 | But with Clydebank losing to Morton , Airdrie have moved a point clear at the top of the table with Falkirk occupying third spot . |
| 17 | At the same time , the UK is also the ‘ host country ’ to an unusually large stock of assets owned by foreign multinationals , ranking third behind Canada , which has a large presence of US companies , and the US itself ( Ietto-Gillies , 1987 , Table 3.1 ) . |
| 18 | He argued that Russia had been exploited and impoverished more than any other republic by the " imperial policy of the Centre " , noting for example that although ranking third of the 15 union republics in labour productivity it was last in social expenditure . |
| 19 | Things look grim for the Dons — languishing third from the bottom of the Premier League — and now out of the Cup . |
| 20 | Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults . |
| 21 | It left the French golfer four strokes ahead of Gronberg , with Davies one stroke further behind , to be sharing third place with Annika Sorenstam from Sweden . |
| 22 | Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities . |
| 23 | The biggest problem facing Third World economies now is the plunge in the prices of their export commodities . |
| 24 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 25 | This means ‘ he/she/it died ’ , the final — dü indicating third person singular , past tense . |
| 26 | Charter Hardware was far from disgraced when running third to Bonanza Boy in the Coral Welsh National , only losing second place close home to Cool Enough . |
| 27 | In his pre-National race Devon Loch gave a stone to another future Gold Cup winner , Kerstin , when running third to her in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham , after which Dick Francis reported to the Queen Mother that ‘ Devon Loch was staying on really well , and I feel we have a great chance at Aintree . ’ |
| 28 | Ace was running third , his team-mate ahead of him , their closest opposition in the lead . |
| 29 | We had to decide on travelling third or first class . |
| 30 | From Constanza I returned to England , travelling third class across Europe , by train to Bucharest and Budapest , by boat up the Danube to Vienna , and thence by train to Prague , Berlin and Ostend . |