Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the third [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 2 | It would not , however , be possible for the third defendant to suggest that the third party was in any way guilty of any illegal conduct . |
| 3 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 4 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 5 | If so , this series is unlikely to have been conspicuous after the third quarter of the second century . |
| 6 | Some of the third party claims examined will be based upon recognised legal rights and obligations , but others are based upon certain needs in which some merit is recognised by members of the international community . |
| 7 | In what some believed to be a dummy run of tomorrow 's final , Jackie Lockhart 's team beat Christine Cannon 's Stranraer 8-7 in the third round . |
| 8 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 9 | The unknown 25-year-old fired a five under par 67 in the third round at Santa Ponsa to carry a one-stroke advantage into the final 18 holes tomorrow . |
| 10 | Vaccines against measles , polio , whooping cough and other killing infections prevalent in the third world are much more sensitive , however . |
| 11 | KAPIL DEV , India 's Pride , became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets when he trapped Australian opener Mark Taylor lbw in the first over after tea at 4.05 on the third day in the final Test of the recent series . |
| 12 | As a matter of principle this seems excessively hard on third parties ; the buffer stock Manager was known publicly to be the representative of the International Tin Council , there was reliance upon this by the third parties and the States therefore should not be able later to deny their involvement . |
| 13 | The HyperCard is based on the above outline of document preparation systems , with tutorials corresponding to each of the third level of headings ( e.g. the computer industry , publishing industry , hardware , software ) . |
| 14 | We understand that offence was caused by our slogan ‘ Strengthen the Christian Aid Poor ’ and that the general feeling was that poverty in UK/I is minimal in comparison to that of the Third World . |
| 15 | In such situations the equation is not the same in the case of the confidant and that of the third party and accordingly the result may be different . |
| 16 | The rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest slowed during 1991 for the third year running , according to satellite evidence . |
| 17 | ‘ What are you staring at , Squib ? ’ he said , almost angrily , conscious that his cheeks were warm for the third time that afternoon . |
| 18 | With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary . |
| 19 | My own studies of export oriented zones in China ( Sklair , forthcoming ) , Egypt ( 1988c ) , Mexico ( 1989 ) , and Ireland ( 1988b ) , suggest that backward and forward linkages tend to be very meagre , and these cases may be rather more typical of the Third World as a whole than the relatively highly developed enclave , Singapore . |
| 20 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 21 | There is still time for much of the Third World to be held back from taking the same course . |
| 22 | Something on that scale , or beyond , will be needed if the lethal cocktail of growing populations and diminishing harvests is not to create further tragedy in much of the third world . |
| 23 | But although they had vanished by the late 1950s , together with beggars from most European stations , the importunate begging hand thrust through the window of the railway carriage remains common throughout much of the Third World . |
| 24 | Much of the third world was colonised then . |
| 25 | A study presented to the United Nations suggests that grain yields will fall by 10 to 15 per cent in much of the third world as a result of global warming . |
| 26 | If Third World states and the Soviet bloc promoted their ideas on the neutralisation of countries or territories in the Third World through their respective plans for Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf , then the Western powers indicated the conditions under which they believed neutralisation was most appropriate in the Third World when they proposed the neutralisation of Afghanistan at the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 27 | I had a six in the third place. : |
| 28 | There had been another ace , this time hit even more courageously with a second serve , to prevent Sampras breaking back to 4–5 in the third set . |
| 29 | Xinhua led the French ace 17–13 in the third game but was narrowly beaten 21–19 in a thrilling contest . |
| 30 | ; whereas from the end of the first half of 1979 to the third quarter of 1991 , there has been an increase of nearly 6 per cent . |