Example sentences of "[prep] the first [conj] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 2 | Mira herself makes several appearances , both in the first and the third persons , before also discovering that her name is on the list as the delegate from Amalgamemnon , whereupon she too ‘ dies ’ . |
| 3 | In the first and the third of these phases , roles and statuses are carefully distinguished ; in the second they are confused , " we " and " they " are mixed up , behaviour which would be outrageous in ordinary life becomes normal and even obligatory . |
| 4 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 5 | The second cleavage is at right angles to the first and the third again at right angles . |