Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admitted : ‘ There was doubt in my mind after the third round and I would have preferred to win by going head to head with Nick Price . |
| 2 | Until , encouraged to repeat the achievement , she chooses as subject : My Town in the Third Reich . |
| 3 | He would ask potential supporters : ‘ Would you like a copy of my speech of the third of August . |
| 4 | You see , the Comer has changed its course since the third century . |
| 5 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 6 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 7 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 8 | And of course — there was Paula , gripping her harpoon in the third canoe . |
| 9 | Mr Major replied : ‘ It is for this House to decide by its vote on the third reading whether to approve the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill and enable the Government to ratify the treaty . |
| 10 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 11 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 12 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 13 | Elegy is further accompanied ‘ by a diffused , resigned , melancholy sense of the passing of time , of the old order changing and yielding to a new one ’ ; while true of Beowulf and The Idylls of the King this is conspicuously truer of The Return of the King and its dissolution of the Third Age . |
| 14 | NOVA staged a battling fightback to book their place in the third round of the Wirral FA Sunday Premier Cup with a thrilling 5-4 victory over Hope Farm S.H . |
| 15 | He saw her as he called her name for the third time . |
| 16 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 17 | From the 1970s on there has been a considerable surge of scholarly and public interest in the private media and , latterly , in their role in the Third World . |
| 18 | Debt net of cash has been reduced more than 60% from its peak in the third quarter of 1989 and debt net of cash to capital ratio is now 42% compared with a peak 61% in second quarter 1991 ; the company 's goal is to get to 25% or less . |
| 19 | National insurance contributions rise to their peak with the third and fourth quintiles . |
| 20 | Taylor makes the point that one of one his members believes that while the banks had been more than generous in their lending to the third world and writing off significant sums , there was little , if any support , for the small business on their own doorstep . |
| 21 | What about her version of the third sentence : It 's beautiful to look at , wonderful to smell , as well as being extremely soft to touch . |
| 22 | RCO had tried to brighten up their corner of the third floor with a few gallons of inexpensive paint . |
| 23 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 24 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 25 | The M19-Democratic Alliance ( ADM-19 ) of former left-wing guerrillas , which ran a single slate of candidates , consolidated its position as the third political force in the country , winning nine Senate seats and 15 in the lower house , although its support dropped dramatically from 27 to 10 per cent of the vote . |
| 26 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 27 | Benson 's at Brimscombe have transferred their production to the third world . |
| 28 | I 'm a drunk Robina , a free Robina , a girl who can stop being called bloody Robina — they even used to call me Banko in the third year : Robin , robbing banks , Banko ! |
| 29 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 30 | The result is that Mr Clinton is unlikely to unveil his plan until the third week of June , and it could be later if his economic package encounters more problems . |