Example sentences of "[pers pn] to the third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 2 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 3 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 4 | She followed him to the third floor , then along the gallery to a closed door . |
| 5 | I 'm not gon na have it , you 're gon na say , give it to the third caravan parked on the beach on the left hand side of the loo |
| 6 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 7 | This brings us to the third question : is regulation worthwhile ? |
| 8 | This brings us to the third stage : the arrival of a new and sometimes troublesome predator in the British countryside . |
| 9 | This brings us to the Third Period , which started with the very first human emotions which heralded the dawn of civilisation . |
| 10 | This brings us to the third phase , in which linguists have become more generally prepared to question the notion of linguistic equality and to accept that language differences might give rise to difficulties which are not due solely to the social and linguistic misconceptions of teachers . |