Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Servan-Schreiber , the president of the centre , argued in World Challenge that the microprocessor should offer the Third World an escape from misery and poverty . |
| 2 | The book also includes useful papers on how remote sensing and communications satellites and other results of space research can help the Third World , The emphasis on this area of work reflects , one must presume , the desire by developing nations represented on the UN committees to gain a greater share of the benefits of space research . |
| 3 | Largely because of the ‘ development focus ’ , the plan would cost a third as much as the LRPPP . |
| 4 | Western banks are even more reluctant to part with cash , seeing the possibility that East European borrowing could become the Third World debt problem of the 1990s . |
| 5 | It is often unwise of the plaintiff to rely on the defendant sued obtaining an indemnity from a third party if the plaintiff could bring the third party in as a second defendant , eg in road accident cases . |
| 6 | However , when the Community will reach the third stage and whether the currency union will be well-founded are questions that will be largely resolved by what happens during the transition period . |
| 7 | Should the shareholders of Tyne Tees accept their directors ' recommendation the combined group will become the third largest television company in the UK . |
| 8 | The investigation is being led by Det Supt Eric John , and the murder inquiry will mark the third unsolved killing in the Lothians in the last five weeks . |
| 9 | But that is not so , for a bailee has only possession and not ownership ( which remains in the bailor ) , and yet the bailee can sue a third party for conversion . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , if there is any sense in which capitalism can develop the Third World , and there is evidence that this is happening in some countries or in some sectors , then the theoretical elaboration of the idea of dependency reversal may be useful . |
| 11 | Dr John Bonnell of the Central Electricity Generating Board would find the third cancer death at Sizewell less ’ difficult to explain- ( This Week , 24 February , p 509 ) if he consulted Dr Alice Stewart or Dr Broso . |
| 12 | The bill will receive a third reading , and once passed by the Commons will be debated by the Lords in much the same way . |
| 13 | This shift in the centre of gravity from the rich North to the less developed world will increase the Third World 's influence in the denominations and certainly change aspects of faith . |
| 14 | The remaining hospital will lose a third of its activity , will therefore lose a third of its income . |
| 15 | The country could provide a third key area for metals production to add to southern Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Across the country , its estimated wind and solar power could meet a third of America 's energy needs . |
| 17 | The merger will create the third biggest ITV company in Britain , serving 9m viewers , about 16pc of the national audience . |