Example sentences of "[art] third [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third category for the purposes of review was the High Court . |
| 2 | On the third day of the hearings Derek Davis , the most senior CEGB executive to give evidence , spelled it out . |
| 3 | The first two years of study there will normally involve between three and six subjects rather than the one , two or three typical of the English university , and specialization does not really begin until the third year of the honours course . |
| 4 | However , on 19 July 1991 , the sentences were overturned on technical grounds by the Third Chamber of the Appeals Court ( Sala Tercera de la Corte de Apelaciones ) and a retrial ordered . |
| 5 | She drew the audience 's attention to the injured leading man , who , leg propped on a cushioned trestle arrangement protruding into the centre aisle , sat under a red blanket in the third row of the stalls . |
| 6 | For all his regalist attitudes Campomanes showed the sincerity of his Catholicism by dying a member of the third order of the Franciscans . |
| 7 | Some would argue for the third possibility on the grounds that if there were a complete set of laws , that would infringe God 's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world . |
| 8 | As the third anniversary of the women 's arrival in the community approaches , there is a marked improvement in Elizabeth 's sense of well-being and greater participation by both women in activities beyond domestic and care routines . |
| 9 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 10 | The first two parts of the proposal were acceptable as offered , but the motion failed in total because of the President 's unwillingness to make any accommodation of any kind on the third clause despite the amendments . |
| 11 | McArty led the third campaign against the Iguanoids in the Koftan war . ’ |
| 12 | This has , undoubtedly , over the last few decades , brought many rural people in the Third World into the towns and cities , whether forced off their lands by hunger or predatory landlords , or as willing migrants in search of a better life . |
| 13 | The significance of this was to give a much-needed niche for future leaders of the Third World in the years after 1945 to prepare themselves for their daunting task . |
| 14 | In all three areas the impact upon the third party of the actions of other actors is beyond the control of the former ; indeed from its perspective it may be of little import whether the behaviour of other States inter se is consensual or coercive , until the degree of coercion becomes such that as a member of the international community it must recognise and respond to an illegal act . |
| 15 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 16 | Even as Mrs Thatcher stood triumphant for the third time on the stairs at Central Office the applauding apparatchiks were already honing the knives for the Saatchi team which was blamed for various mid-campaign woes . |
| 17 | A crowd of over 20,000 is expected for the third game of the Springboks ' four-match visit to England and North officials have begun negotiations with Leeds City Council to use Leeds United 's ground . |
| 18 | The third difference between the colleges , the universities and the polytechnics probably arises from the existence of formal programmes in the colleges and the lack of them in universities and polytechnics . |
| 19 | Flushed with the success of his trolleybus venture in the Kingston area of the London United Tramways , Mr. Spencer obtained permission in July 1932 to apply for powers to run trolleybuses on the Sutton route of the South Metropolitan company , so that he could implement the third item of the proposals put forward in 1931 . |
| 20 | And er so I shot back to the phone , tried a second partner finally the third partner in the solicitors firm that I deal with was there . |
| 21 | Brooke had originally envisaged three rounds of talks lasting 10 weeks : the first involving the constitutional parties in Northern Ireland , the second phase including the Irish government , and the third round between the governments in Dublin and London . |
| 22 | But it is worth bearing in mind that he is a fine iron player and , until his seven at the 10th hole in the third round of the Players ' Championship , he was jointly leading the field . |
| 23 | Syria came under considerable US pressure to redeploy its troops from Beirut and into the Bekaa immediately upon completion of the third round of the elections . |
| 24 | Navratilova was beaten 2–6 , 6–4 , 6–3 in the third round of the DFS Classic at Edgbaston by Australian qualifier Kristine Radford , ranked 179 in the world . |
| 25 | True drama unfolded in the third round of the Men 's Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy for more than one reason , as reigning champions David Lloyd , Slazenger Heston were almost certainly dethroned by event newcomers Royal Berkshire , and Team Excel Bath missed out on a golden opportunity to displace last year 's Area 8 champions West Hants . |
| 26 | A third approach to the problems of a congested south east is seen in some of the recent reports on the north/south divide which recommend the decentralisation of administrative commercial activity from London . |
| 27 | But Gilliland found that the real temperature record could be matched much more closely by adding a third factor to the calculations : varying solar heat output tied to the 76-year cycle of variations in solar size ( Climatic Change , vol 4 , p I 1 1 ) . |
| 28 | A third problem with the numbers game is tokenism . |
| 29 | These parameters require an injured State to be distinguished from a third State for the purposes of defining the accountability of the wrong-doer and the rights of other States . |
| 30 | ‘ A loose tongue to match a loose brain , eh , Thomas ? ’ chuckled a third voice from the shadows beyond the fire . |