Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , recent reports , such as A growing problem by the British charity Oxfam , have shown that multinational companies sell dangerous pesticides indiscriminately in the Third World , In some cases they are promoted through misleading advertising to largely illiterate farmers .
2 A MAN said a silent prayer of thanks yesterday on the third anniversary of his heart transplant for the anonymous donor who gave him his life .
3 Boomer Maclean 's recovery stemmed from two thunderous winners late in the third game .
4 Bay of Plenty showed the advantage of the special coaching which New Zealanders receive for such events when they romped to victory in the Melrose Sevens tournament , taking the prized trophy overseas for the third year in a row by defeating Kelso 19–12 in the final .
5 This took place both to the Third World ( Chapter 1 ) and to more rural and peripheral regions of the UK ( sections 2.3 and 2.4 ) .
6 Dr Nigel Paul , a Lancaster biologist now in the third year of a research programme funded by the Department of the Environment , said yesterday that preliminary research suggested crops such as barley , peas , cauliflower , sprouts and broccoli were most at risk .
7 ‘ Doctor Little ! ’ repeated Tom loudly for the third time .
8 Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round .
9 Recommendations for policy generally in the Third World cities may be forthcoming .
10 Mr Ashdown descended on the area yesterday for the third time in his marathon campaign amid growing recognition among Tories that the South-West could prove their Achilles ' heel , a danger underlined by the Press Association opinion poll which showed a swing against the Conservatives in the region of six per cent .
11 The court then fixes a pre-trial review , giving notice to the plaintiff and defendant and endorsing notice thereof on the third party notice .
12 So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more .
13 Thus , women 's work in domestic food production has remained largely invisible ( see Boserup , 1970 ; Petritsch , 1985 ) , while the role of the TNCs is broadcast from television , radio , newsprint and billboards all over the Third World .
14 Germany will play France tonight for the third semi-final spot to play Scotland , while the losers will play Switzerland tomorrow morning for the final place .
15 Speakers included Vin McMullen of CAFOD , Tim Byains of Church Action on Poverty , Liam Black of CRISIS , Mary Cronin of the Catholic Aids Link and many workers involved in justice issues both in the Third World and Great Britain .
16 Congressional deputies from Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba , Ecuador , Mexico , Panama and Peru , who ( together with the United States ) were in Quito primarily for the third inter-parliamentary meeting on money laundering , agreed on Feb. 19 to form a Latin American Inter-Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Drug Abuse ( Grilapad ) .
17 On this basis , precious resources have been allocated to mass literacy campaigns all over the Third World .
18 The Earl of Burlington , Sir John Hotham and Sir Marmaduke Constable were amongst those who subscribed £365 to ensure that the ‘ Kiplingcotes was ridd yearly on the third Thursday in March ’ .
19 The basic differences between them in respect of their value to architectural study is that Ostia was occupied and developed over a much longer period , from the fourth century B.C. to the third century A.D. , and that it was not a provincial city but the port of Rome and , as such , became more important , as is evidenced by its buildings .
20 Dexter sighed and made his way across to the third door , halting outside it .
21 And then we come to race nine , the third leg of our yankee tonight , Radio Oxford 's yankee , that 's in the nine thirty two erm here I 'm going to go for Kerry Limb Gold in trap six erm this one does like the underfoot conditions to be soft , so he 's got it tonight — Kerry Limb Gold then as the third leg of the yankee , nine thirty two .
22 Moisture from the inflated covers might have gingered up the pitch somewhat for the third day , and with the ball still quite new , England 's bowlers were clearly interested in a breakthrough .
23 In the north , at Corbridge , a large building with a veranda and an ornamental fountain has been claimed as a mansio , although it started life as a winged-corridor house probably during the third century .
24 Suppose we have quarterly figures y 1 , y 2 , y 3 , y 4 , y 5 , Then the first 4-quarter moving average will be corresponding to a time point midway between the second and third quarters , and the second will be corresponding to a time midway between the third and fourth quarters .
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