Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 2 | The softly spoken command came from the third man , who had remained silent until now . |
| 3 | The Nationalist denouement came in the third week of April , and the Republican at the beginning of May , in a week of violent confrontation between communists and anarchists in Barcelona . |
| 4 | Hall threw in the third crate for a Quinn goal that was disallowed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Legal Services Committee continued in 1992 where it left off in 1991 and in January 1992 representatives of the committee appeared for the third time before the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct . |
| 7 | Another birdie came at the third as he holed from 15 feet , up then down hill , beyond the pin . |
| 8 | The waiter arrived with the third bottle of Valpolicella and Urquhart poured himself a glass with the same relish as if it were his first . |
| 9 | Troops were deployed and a curfew imposed as the unrest continued into the third day ; at the end of this time 26 people were reported dead and over 500 had been arrested . |
| 10 | It would be impossible for the affluent to live in peace if conflict after conflict exploded in the third world . |
| 11 | Erm , and I think it 's also perhaps right that we should note with pleasure the comment made in the third paragraph on the second page , about the work of Mr and Mr , er , I think that does rec er , give some recognition to erm , er the role that the archivist 's are playing in the wider community , and I think that is extremely er commendable and I think we should send our congratulations from this committee er , and our support for what they 're doing . |
| 12 | Resolved , That this House welcomes Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer 's Autumn Statement , which reaffirmed the Government 's forecast of a modest recovery in the second half of 1991 , with growth gathering pace in 1992 ; notes that the total output of the British economy rose in the third quarter of 1991 , providing further confirmation of this forecast ; and congratulates the Government on its sound and prudent economic policies , which have reduced inflation from nearly 11 per cent . |
| 13 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 14 | In many cases , knowledge of that heroin use came from a third party , particularly the police following the arrest of the user for drug-related offences including burglary and shoplifting . |
| 15 | The rate fell by a third after thousands of people took part in a mass meditation experiment in Washington . |
| 16 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |
| 17 | Croydon 's turn came in the third stage on the night of Saturday 7 April 1951 . |
| 18 | Olympus before the end of this week : I do n't know how desperate this is , message came via a third party . |
| 19 | Mr Sells 's statement came on the third day of the inquiry into allegations that three London specialists were involved in trafficking in kidneys . |
| 20 | The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport , which had recently held two cell meetings . |
| 21 | UNEMPLOYMENT fell for the third consecutive month in April , by 1,400 . |
| 22 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 23 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 24 | The agreement resulted from the third meeting of the Lao-Chinese Joint Border Committee . |