Example sentences of "and the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some said this loss of funds was what lay behind a recent broken engagement between the rather unattractive Miss Pinkney and the third son of a titled but impecunious family . |
| 2 | The first night he looks into her bower , the second night he bends over her , and the third night he can not resist kissing her . |
| 3 | It went well , as did the second and the third lessons . |
| 4 | There are 3 heads to the triceps ; 2 of them have their origins on the humerus and the third originates on the shoulder blade . |
| 5 | Ireland 's NCB and the third Finnish challenger , UBF , were due in last night . |
| 6 | The first two fell to the ground and the third figure disappeared into the hedgerow , followed by a long burst of fire from Taff 's Bren . |
| 7 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 8 | The second component was to create educational and health services as rapidly as possible for as many people as possible , and the third was to achieve some fairer distribution of income between expatriate companies and individuals , and the local indigenous population . |
| 9 | ‘ He paid for the first round out of a fiver and the third with another fiver . |
| 10 | We now know this threatens to dramatically alter the world 's weather patterns , raising sea levels and bringing floods , droughts and famines to us and the Third World . |
| 11 | Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) . |
| 12 | The witches are apparently a representation of the triple goddess : one looks old like the crone , another is the mother and the third is supposedly the Virgin because she carries her rag doll around with her . |
| 13 | ‘ Our second is the re-establishment of Lithuania 's statehood , and the third is an independent Lithuanian Communist Party . ’ |
| 14 | First , the 40ft Southern Cross had to pull out of the race with rigging problems ; Prime Factor was recalled at the start ; and the third boat , Sagacious V , faces another protest which is likely to see her heavily penalised . |
| 15 | The second event is the Dubai Classic and the third the Mediterranean Open at Las Brisas . |
| 16 | Midford Castle is a celebration of that card , for it is built to the same shape , with two rounded leaves of the trefoil facing out across the valley over Cane Brook and Midford Brook , and the third out to the back . |
| 17 | The first needs no elaboration ; the second stemmed from socialism and the growing demands of the Welfare State ; and the third created rampant inflation in the cost of defence equipment , which has yet to be mastered . |
| 18 | And the third is the current military method of implementing that Defence policy in terms of operational roles and resources allotted to the different elements of our military forces . |
| 19 | And the third factor was the splintering of the collective voice of the Chiefs of Staff as decision-making swung away from operational problems to arguments over the Defence programmes . |
| 20 | Like all withdrawals , the conversion of Empire into Commonwealth went far faster than was prudent or planned , thanks to American impatience , and to the hostility of the Communist and the Third World states . |
| 21 | For Ethiopia and Sudan , it is the second bad year in a row ( and the third bad year in four ) . |
| 22 | The struggling economic reformers in Eastern Europe and the third world would despair . |
| 23 | Though accepting both the first and the third , the philosophically unsophisticated would reject the second . |
| 24 | Berkeley 's predecessors , on the other hand , would accept both the second and the third , and reject the first . |
| 25 | It was the second-best of three : mine was the best , and the third was very small indeed . |
| 26 | The house stood at the junction of five roads , and with its precincts formed one side of a triangle , the second side being the pond , and the third the wide steep steps up to the churchyard . |
| 27 | The second edition in the Fifties was much revised , and the third edition , the Sixties version , still more so , each time diluting a little more the original message of permissive parenthood . |
| 28 | Bavarian reports spoke of ‘ paralysing horror ’ at the news , and-with typical exaggeration — of a mood comparable to that of 1917 , while others commented that workers were thinking it was the beginning of the end of the Party and the Third Reich , and that rumours were abroad about disturbances in Munich . |
| 29 | The causes of marginalisation both in Europe and the Third World , the nature of the actions necessary to overcome it and the implications for industrial society in doing so are as yet poorly understood . |
| 30 | The differences here between the first two teams are insignificant , but the difference between them and the third team is striking . |