Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World . |
| 2 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 3 | Perhaps one of the best autobiographies ( although written in the third person ) is Flora Thompson 's Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945 ) , followed by her later ( and not , in my opinion , as good ) Still Glides the Stream ( 1948 ) . |
| 4 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 5 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 6 | Sponsored by UNESCO , the meeting followed up initiatives that sprang from the Third Consultation of Ministers of Culture of Latin America/Caribbean in September last year . |
| 7 | This view characterises most sociological explanations of crime , including those that fall into the third category of causal explanation : invention . |
| 8 | While the majority of research students were holding SERC awards that ended in the third quarter of 1984 , just over one in ten had other end dates , as Table 6.1 shows . |
| 9 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) In May 1983 B.M.T. to which the application signed by the first plaintiff and altered by the third defendant had been submitted , offered C.M.C. a loan of £185,500 on the security of the bakery . |
| 11 | It would be great to bounce back from a temporary aberration and get into the Third Division . |
| 12 | To cut the dole was , in Seely 's view , essential , but ‘ this tangle can not be unravelled by any one party , or even any two , because if opposed by the third they would lose the Election and the evil would continue . ’ |
| 13 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 14 | The first one was still exploding through my cortex as I gulped the second and reached for the third . |
| 15 | There was the cancellation of the second Test after the Guyanese government decided to deport Robin Jackman because of his South African connections ; and then came the real tragedy , when Ken Barrington had a heart attack and died during the third Test in Barbados . |
| 16 | You start with one vowel , go on to another and end with the third . |
| 17 | Larvae of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis injected into the skin migrate to the lungs and move from the third to the fourth stage of their life cycle . |
| 18 | He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them . |
| 19 | The Bernt Carlsson Trust , which is chaired by Mrs Glenys Kinnock , wife of the Labour leader , pledges to ‘ aid the poor and distressed in the third world ’ . |
| 20 | Scale the purple wall and step onto the third lift . |
| 21 | The stipulation pour autrui is already effective , but may become inoperative if rejected by the third party . |
| 22 | The archway itself is in fine condition and dates from the third century B.C. It forms part of the Etruscan walls to the city and is the best extant example of Etruscan masonry . |
| 23 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 24 | Modern methods of super-exploitation , tried and tested in the Third World , are coming home to industrialized countries . |
| 25 | A phone test showed she tried to ring 999 , but died before the third nine . |
| 26 | The Bundestag also approved a declaration obliging the government to respect a parliamentary vote in 1996 on whether to proceed to the third stage of economic and monetary union , involving the introduction of a single currency . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , if you use a large spot that covers the whole of the receptive field , you get very little response in both cases , as shown in the third row . |
| 28 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 29 | Bregawn swept over the third fence from home and made his way into the straight , Pursued by Captain John ( who had lost ground when blundering at the third last ) , Wayward Lad and Silver Buck . |
| 30 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |