Example sentences of "[art] third [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assumption C , ‘ the maintenance of employment and the prevention of mass unemployment ’ , was the third of the Assumptions in his report . |
| 2 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 3 | Other insects attract their mates by exploiting the third of the senses , smell . |
| 4 | These arguments then lead us to support the third of the options for change set out in the 1992 Green Paper . |
| 5 | An alternative way of looking at it would perhaps be to say the Greater York Area is that area within ten miles of the city centre as is indicated by the third of the criteria set out in policy H two . |
| 6 | The first reported expression of dissent occurred in Balston Ltd v Headline Filters [ 1987 ] FSR 330 where Scott J at pp347 and 348 said , having quoted from the judgment of Neill LJ in Faccenda , both counsel before me express some reservations about that passage insofar as it suggests that confidential information can not be protected by a suitably worded restrictive convenant binding on an ex-employee unless the information can be regarded as trade secret in the third of the categories described by Goulding J. I am bound to say that I share these reservations . |
| 7 | We turn now to the third of the imperatives that shape the bargaining climate : the political context . |
| 8 | The third of the examples above suggests that the poem is being subtle ( whereas in fact it is the author — though again , this is arguably a matter of unknowable intention ) ; use of such personification involves a minor lapse in logic which you should be aware of , even if you decide that the final effect is worth it . |
| 9 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
| 10 | When he came within sight of the front door , the car was parked outside and two men helping a third up the steps . |
| 11 | Clara calculated that at least a third of the objects laid on the table , by regulation , were not used during the course of any single meal , and yet their function was certainly not one of gracious adornment . |
| 12 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 13 | A third of the teachers think they have . |
| 14 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 15 | Elections take place for a third of the councillors in each year that there is not a county council election . |
| 16 | In Wiltshire , nearly a third of the councillors are elected by voters in the Thamesdown borough area covering Swindon . |
| 17 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 18 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 19 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 20 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 21 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Although all departments were represented , only a third of the members were departmental heads . |
| 23 | Today , they constitute about a third of the forests of the world . |
| 24 | Yet this modest advance in steam conditions was approached late and with circumspection : the sets on order for the whole of the 1950s commissioning programmes remained mainly the 30MW and 60MW sizes , and only a third of the sets adopted the more advanced steam conditions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ A third of the horses in training develop tendon injuries , and that 's almost certainly a gross underestimate , ’ explains Professor Allen Goodship , head of the Comparative Orthopaedic Research Unit at Bristol . |
| 27 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 28 | In fact , about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 29 | For a third of the women these hardships were temporarily alleviated when they obtained new paid employment . |
| 30 | A third of the women in the ‘ specials ’ are diagnosed as suffering from a psychopathic disorder , compared with less than a quarter of the men . |