Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 2 | Halifax battered Scarborough for ten minutes after half-time and from the third of a series of corners , Dave Evans rattled a shot against the crossbar . |
| 3 | In the first clutches nearly all the capsules appeared to contain developing embryos , in the second only 10% and in the third , none at all ( Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | He stated a little later , ‘ At the start it was patriotism not communism which moved me to believe in Lenin and in the Third International . ’ |
| 5 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 6 | They travelled for days and on the third entered the Lauderdale valley . |
| 7 | A United States ' claim that those parts of the Convention that it favours have become customary international law has considerable implications for the international law-making process and for the third party rule . |
| 8 | Fontana et al showed that in the first three years of life 97% of helthy children had at least one vowel movement every other day and after the third year , 95% of the children had this pattern . |
| 9 | The Committee participated in the publication by the BPF of a new Form of Collateral warranty for purchasers and tenants and in the third edition of the form for funders . |
| 10 | The ten divisions of the French Fifth Army and the four divisions of the BEF had , therefore , on the instructions of General Joseph Joffre , virtually put their heads into a noose , for they could easily he assailed from the north by the German First and Second armies and by the Third Army from the east . |
| 11 | in the premier league Swindon Town won their second point of the season at West Ham and in the third division there was a one-all draw for Hereford against Northampton at Edgar Street |
| 12 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 13 | The leading element in this upheaval was the student movement , and although students became independently active in political life all over the world — in Eastern Europe and in the Third World just as much as in the West — the principal expression of a distinctive radical doctrine and mode of political action , which became to a large extent a model for the whole international movement , was to be found in the US , in the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) . |
| 14 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 15 | In the second set of instructions , take the one pair and perm it with the two highest scoring selections in each of the three trios and in the third section , perm a straight 8 from 9 among your second column trio matches . |
| 16 | In two cases , beds have been bought from other counties and in the third , an outdoor pursuits scheme was used . |
| 17 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 18 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |