Example sentences of "[art] third [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Eva Selina ( 1870–1926 ) , suffragist , social worker , and poet , was born 22 May 1870 at Lissadell , county Sligo , Ireland , the second of the three daughters and the third of the five children of Sir Henry Gore-Booth , fifth baronet , Anglo-Irish landlord and Arctic explorer , and his wife Georgina Mary , only daughter of Colonel Charles Hill of Tickhill Castle , Yorkshire . |
| 2 | , Dorothy ( 1771–1855 ) , writer , was born 25 December 1771 in Cockermouth , Cumberland , the third of the five children and only daughter of John Wordsworth , attorney , of Cockermouth , and his wife Anne , daughter of William Cookson , linen-draper , of Penrith . |
| 3 | , Charles Thomas ( 1860–1931 ) , cricketer and missionary , was born in Spratton , Northamptonshire , 2 December 1860 , the third of the six sons ( with one daughter ) of Edward Studd , indigo planter in India , later of Tedworth House , Wiltshire , and his second wife Dorothy ( ‘ Dora ’ ) Sophia , daughter of John Thomas , Calcutta merchant , of Bledsoe , Bedfordshire ; there were four children of the first marriage . |
| 4 | , Sophie ( 1850–1922 ) , educationist , Irish patriot , and suffragist , was born in Sandymount near Dublin 15 February 1850 , the third of the six children of the Revd William Alexander Willock , fellow of Trinity College , Dublin , mathematician , and his wife , daughter of J. P. Morris of Skreen Castle . |
| 5 | The third of the new partners was Felix Warre , a son of the Head Master of Eton . |
| 6 | He was nominated renter-warden of the company in 1746 ( the third of the four wardens ) and in 1756 master , but on both occasions paid a fine , as was customary for refusers , to avoid election . |
| 7 | , Richard ( 1817–1886 ) , painter , was born 1 August 1817 in Chatham , the third of the four sons and fourth of the seven children of Robert Dadd , apothecary and chemist , of Chatham , and his wife Mary Ann ( who died in 1824 ) , daughter of Richard Martin of Gillingham . |
| 8 | , Henry ( 1835–1918 ) , medical psychologist , was born 5 February 1835 at a farmhouse called ‘ Rome ’ near Giggleswick , Yorkshire , the third of the four sons and fourth of seven children of Thomas Maudsley , yeoman farmer , and his wife Mary Bateson , daughter of a Lancaster farmer . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , on 17 September 1838 Clementina had married George Hey , the third of the four sons of John Hey , the fancy weaver , and the only one not to follow his father 's occupation . |
| 10 | English National Soprano , Lesley Garrett will be singing in the third of the 4 concerts . |
| 11 | The second theme that interests me is implicit in the opening paragraphs of the third of the published papers , ‘ Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic ’ . |
| 12 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 13 | If he had done so , the second the third of the three matters would have been irrelevant . |
| 14 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 15 | , Samuel ( 1737–1807 ) , architect , was born 8 September 1737 at Blackbrook Farm , Weeford , Staffordshire , the third of the seven sons and nine children of Benjamin Wyatt , farmer and timber merchant of Weeford , who also practised as a builder and architect , and his wife Mary Wright . |
| 16 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 17 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 18 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 19 | If she loses , she could be forced to repay almost a third of a million pounds she 's already received . |
| 20 | It spent a third of a million pounds on this flare siphoning off dangerous methane gas — and has these Nigerian Lanner Falcons on constant guard against flocks of seagulls which can be a danger to planes from nearby RAF bases . |
| 21 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 22 | A councillor who 's facing a legal bill of a third of a million pounds after a failed libel case has lodged an appeal against having to pay . |
| 23 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We found that in the long term a little under a third of the participating teachers had been significantly influenced by what they had heard and seen and had made major changes in their classroom practice as a result . |
| 26 | Under a third of the 23,000 litres stored was thought to have got into the supply system . |
| 27 | Surprisingly , perhaps , in an irreligious age , nearly a third of the highest prices were for works associated with the Bible , showing that , if the conclusion is not too naive , respect and affection for it is still deeply ingrained and that , at least in fine editions , it is still a best-seller . |
| 28 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |
| 29 | About a third of the Japanese parts-makers and their joint-ventures now have contracts with one or other of the big three , a few with all of them . |
| 30 | Agricultural pollution accounted for more than 10 per cent of total incidents , and for a third of the major ones . |