Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 2 | Indoor bowls : Visit Clacton-on-Sea is the advice being offered to the selectors of county bowls teams in Essex following the indoor club 's latest success over strong opposition.The seasiders moved through to the third round of the London Southern Counties Shield with a 76–67 victory over Essex County , secured largely through the efforts of Ron Marrable 's rink . |
| 3 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 4 | I was one of 15 who got through to the third stage which is a five day winter course . |
| 5 | In addition , the 16 teams to go through to the third round will each receive an illustrated copy of The Guinness Book of Cricket Facts and Feats . |
| 6 | Additionally , in the case of a complete failure to perform to contract at all , the buyer will usually have the right to go elsewhere to a third party for the same goods and to charge the seller for any increase in the price paid to the third party over that payable to the seller . |
| 7 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 8 | Nino came through to the third jump off but only one , Germany 's Frank Sloothaak , on the high jump specialist Optiebeurs Golo , could go clear again . |
| 9 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |
| 10 | She was not squeamish about using her considerable social influence in support of her son Winston ; she pressed his writing on publishers , sought for favourable reviewers , and appealed directly to the third Marquess of Salisbury , then prime minister , to permit him to join the expedition to the Sudan under Sir H. Herbert Kitchener ( later first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , q.v . ) . |
| 11 | He took avoiding action but came close to a third . |
| 12 | So you can allocate up to a third . |
| 13 | Only Chelsea 's £105,000 bill in 1991 for payments to former captain Graham Roberts tops the penalty dished out to the Third Division promotion-chasers yesterday . |
| 14 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 15 | This leads on to the third scenario , that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level , and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament . |
| 16 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 17 | America wants the Bank to change its ways , and lend less to the third world 's governments and more to its private businesses . |
| 18 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 19 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 20 | A tiny figure is when you consider up to a third of the population is estimated to have no belief in God . |
| 21 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 22 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 23 | It was further said that the reason for limiting the application of subsection ( 2 ) to those third parties who are knowingly concerned in the contravention is that an order addressed directly to a third party ( as opposed to the contravener acting by his servants or agents ) would only be necessary where the third party had an interest of his own in the subject-matter of the order . |
| 24 | On a high-rating Sunday , they will draw up to a third of the population of Britain . |
| 25 | As Liz Hannam reports , the RSPCA devote up to a third of their time to dealing with farmers and their animals , in the society 's ceaseless crusade against cruelty . |
| 26 | Notably it did not respond coherently to the third world 's debt burden , and to ten years of stalled poor-country growth , probably because it did not overhaul its own ponderous bureaucracy . |
| 27 | The paramount feature of pentatonic scales is the absence of semitones : This absence of semitones has two effects : there is no leading note to pull towards the tonic ; and no fourth degree note to gravitate down to the third . |
| 28 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 29 | if money for investment is made payable to the firm , it should be returned to the client to be made payable to the correct third party or , if this is not possible due to extreme circumstances , the cheque should be endorsed and forwarded immediately to the third party |
| 30 | ‘ We are now in our second recruitment round , and if that does n't succeed we will go on to a third . ’ |