Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 2 | Just as England 's hopes were dying in the third and final Test against India in Bombay , Hick revived his side with a magnificent innings of 99 not out . |
| 3 | The National Westminster Bank Sevens , at Sydenham , were won for a third successive time by Brynteg CS , who enjoyed a comfortable semi-final against St Benedict 's , 20-4 , before a demanding final against Campion , 10-6 . |
| 4 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 5 | The two sides were vying for the third spot behind Wakefield and Orrell in the Northern Division allocation for the national finals to be played at Bath on April 26 . |
| 6 | Most of the patients were referred for investigation to the Department of Gastroenterology of Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital , and the remainder were seen at the Third Department of Internal Medicine , Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine . |
| 7 | After 34 minutes , Dulwich were presented with a third goal . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 10 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 11 | The coeliac patients were compared with a third group of 17 children ( mean age 9.7 , range 3–10 years , girls:boys 1.4:1 ) with various diseases or symptoms , such as chronic abdominal pain ( n=8 ) , failure to thrive ( n=6 ) , peptic ulcer ( n=2 ) , and immune deficiency ( n=1 ) . |
| 12 | The research students ' grants were ending at different points in the year , but were concentrated In the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 13 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 14 | The estimated time to get to sleep after going to bed was reduced to a quarter of the baseline levels , and reports of difficulty in getting to sleep were reduced to a third of what they had been . |
| 15 | Mr. Lennon 's rates were reduced by a third . |
| 16 | Between 1962 and 1970 , numbers were cut by a third , from 127,000 to 83,000 . |
| 17 | For example , Uruguay were put in the third pool to avoid a possible conflict of South American interests with Colombia . |
| 18 | For example , Uruguay were put in the third pool to avoid a possible conflict of South American interests with Colombia . |
| 19 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 20 | The talks were extended for a third day after the Japanese agreed to drop the nuclear inspection demand during the current session . |
| 21 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 22 | Usually too , the European took the best land as in Algeria , for example , where 20,000 European farms were established on a third of the cultivable land ( about 2.5m. ha. ) while some 630,000 Algerian peasants were confined to 5m. ha . |
| 23 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 24 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
| 25 | The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines . |
| 26 | Among the three patients with T0N0M0 staging , two had no endoscopic recurrence after 10 months , and an intraepithelial recurrence was diagnosed in the third after 7.5 months . |
| 27 | That was bad enough ; but worse yet was to come in the third stage . |
| 28 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 29 | The organic textbook market of the 1970s was dominated by the third edition of Robert Robert Boyd 's Organic Chemistry ( Allyn & Bacon , 1st ed 1959 ) . |
| 30 | The Times ' price was slashed by a third last month to boost flagging circulation . |