Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | For simplicity , the data are given only for every third year from 1973 to 1985 . |
| 2 | The raw recruits leapt up and formed a queue to wash in basins half full of freezing water , changed only after every third man . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rose of Lima wrote no spiritual works ; influenced , in her time at least , no worldly powers ; reformed no evil Church authorities ; fought no public battles ; and lived anyway in a Third World country thousands of miles from the centre of things . |
| 5 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 6 | At present the language still has to be adopted commercially by a third party . |
| 7 | Exports are likely to rank only as a third objective . |
| 8 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 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 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 13 | In this book we focus solely on a third set of questions : What impact is the new technology having on people at work ? |
| 14 | Moon , who led by two strokes half-way through the third round of the Italian Open , made birdies at all five of the long holes . |
| 15 | In this context , the Court 's well-known flexibility about how the transfer occurs ( for example , whether it occurs indirectly via a third party ) and whether it involves a temporary cessation of the activities in question ( see Redmond Stichting at points 11–13 ) is important . |
| 16 | Listen what the prophet says there in the third chapter , he says , this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain , the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind therefore I have hope . |
| 17 | Roberto played beautifully in the third round and we progressed to two strokes ahead of the field after he shot a 67 . |
| 18 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 19 | America wants the Bank to change its ways , and lend less to the third world 's governments and more to its private businesses . |
| 20 | Cash is paid in , drawn out or paid away to a third party by means of cheques . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is Quaking Pot , a sinkhole with a stream descending into the depths where passages extend southwards for a third of a mile to a depth measured as 467 feet . |
| 23 | But in a frantic third period , Kevin Conway fired home in the third minute to equalise Wojciech Tkacz 's first period opener . |
| 24 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
| 25 | The UK , in these terms , invests least at a third to a half of the investment in the USA and FRG , and a twelfth of that in Japan . |
| 26 | At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book . |
| 27 | The reader might like to check that , if the second and third digits are used instead of the third and fourth , there will be seven synonyms instead of eight ( 00 , 01 , 01 , 04 , 09 , 12 , 12 ) . |
| 28 | He has won titles at two different clubs — Everton and Arsenal — and to do so at a third would be unique . |
| 29 | With urban land prices rising rapidly across the Third World , construction companies build high-rise units mainly to maximise their return on what they spend on land . |
| 30 | 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 . |