Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] [prep] a third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 2 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 3 | The novel finding , of central importance here , comes from the behaviour shown by a third group of subjects . |
| 4 | The rate fell by a third after thousands of people took part in a mass meditation experiment in Washington . |
| 5 | The price paid would include any consideration the employer receives from a third party . |
| 6 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 7 | More novel are the results produced by a third group of subjects ( ‘ Partial ’ in the figure ) . |
| 8 | Gatting made the point that they had to win the final two games as after so much cricket they simply did not have the strength left for a third . |
| 9 | And although England removed nightwatchman Morrison without fuss on the final morning , the draw looked odds-on as the tourists toiled for a third day in the field . |
| 10 | A payment made by a third party to a company 's employee , but taxable under Sch E as arising from his employment , was subject to deduction of income tax at source under the PAYE Regulations , according to the High Court in Booth v Mirror Group Newspapers plc [ 1992 ] STI 662 . |
| 11 | Other 3000 boxes can be upgraded to a 987 with a board swap for a third of the cost of a new system . |
| 12 | Isobel Mitchell , one of the organisers of a petition signed by a third of the islands ' adults calling for an open inquiry to be held by a sheriff , said the secrecy was astonishing . |
| 13 | The type of valuation report we may be asked to provide will be either a ‘ value added ’ report ( where the firm provides a commentary ) or an ‘ assurance oriented ’ report ( where the firm reports on a valuation prepared by a third party ) . |
| 14 | In an assurance oriented engagement the firm will be reporting on a valuation prepared by a third party . |
| 15 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 16 | The way in which this is worked out in law may be that it would be an abuse of the process of the court to allow the creditor under such circumstances to sue , or it may be , and I prefer that view , that there is an extinction of the debt ; but , whichever way it is put , it comes to the same thing , namely that , after acceptance by the creditor of a sum offered by a third party in settlement of the claim against the debtor , the creditor can not maintain an action for the balance … . |
| 17 | The bar chart shows what the average Westerner consumes in a year compared to a Third World person : the shaded area represents the Third World . |