Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saved that humiliation for the third round , when he knocked Tommy out with an uppercut that the lad from Poplar never saw . |
| 2 | It follows that , if what is being sought in this action against the third , fourth and fifth defendants is compensation for the loss suffered by the investors arising out of their purchases of or subscription for Euramco shares , the action can not be sustained . |
| 3 | ‘ I want a gap between the second number and the third , and another gap between the third number and the other four . ’ |
| 4 | Foreign direct investment in some countries of the Third World has resulted in a predominantly male state sector industrial labour force being augmented by many more women in private , especially foreignowned , industry . |
| 5 | In the 600cc class which should be the best of the day , Jim Moodie is fastest on 115.90 but if McCallen gets it together he can win this race for the third year in a row . |
| 6 | In the absence of any military presence in this area in the third century , it would be more sensible to identify this figure with a smith-god . |
| 7 | I first started to go when they were getting promotion to the second division the last few matches in the third division . |
| 8 | this autumn for the third year running . |
| 9 | We light this candle on the third Sunday of Advent . |
| 10 | The new episcopate , the troops of Opus Dei , Comunione e Liberazione and the like , reinforcements maybe from Poland and some parts of the third world , will have made the more liberal vistas of Vatican II and its immediate aftermath just another brief aberration within Catholic history comparable to the conciliar movement of the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 12 | It is clearly unfair that so much tax in the Third World falls on the backs of those least able to pay . |
| 13 | It flashed up in my head — no , it seized hold of my guts — the memory of that moment in the third year when I started hating them . |
| 14 | Educationists have allied with development theorists to extend these ideas to the Third World . |
| 15 | ‘ Since the reforms from Third World markets are so small , it does n't matter if they do n't come , therefore we could donate these genes to the Third World ’ , he says , and supports a new initiative by a former deputy director of the International Wheat and Maize Centre ( CIMMYT ) to set up a gene brokerage between the rich and poor nations . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , there is not enough evidence to make a coherent account of how Carthaginians and Greeks saw each other in the third and second centuries B.C. and how Rome came to profit from the situation — not least by the importation of an African slave who became the most accomplished of the Hellenized dramatists of Latin literature , Terence . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 18 | Although schistosomiasis rarely kills people , its debilitating effect is a burden to many countries in the Third World . |
| 19 | Loans and aid of all kinds to the Third World actually dropped slightly in real terms in 1988 , from $96.9 billion in 1987 to $96 billion adjusted to 1987 prices and exchange rates . |
| 20 | Many tried simply to deny all memories of the Third Reich or else to question the notion of collective guilt ; others were concerned that the old authoritarian values did survive beneath the surface , that civil servants remained in office despite serving the Nazis and that the basis for a genuine new democracy was not therefore laid after the war . |
| 21 | How many shantytowns of the Third World would not cherish one of those suburban bungalows you so despise ? |
| 22 | Nevertheless , there are certain overriding priorities and the Secretary of State considers that it is essential that all pupils in the third and fourth years of secondary education should study English , Mathematics and Science . |
| 23 | But above all , engineers are only slowly acknowledging that many Western solutions , principally water-borne sewerage systems , are not the right answer for many parts of the Third World . |
| 24 | Other popular movements of protest and reform have often been met by violence — for example , the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the US , and on a larger scale the diverse movements in Eastern Europe , as well as in many parts of the Third World , which have been suppressed by military force . |
| 25 | Furthermore , this identification of modernity with life in industrial societies contrasts them with all preindustrial societies ( both in a historical sense and in those countries of the Third World that have barely been touched by industrialism ) . |
| 26 | Poetry somehow has so much more meaning in the Third World . |
| 27 | ‘ That man in the Third Gauls , get a move on ! |
| 28 | Incidentally I got that information on the third law from a very reliable source . |
| 29 | The first two parts of the proposal were acceptable as offered , but the motion failed in total because of the President 's unwillingness to make any accommodation of any kind on the third clause despite the amendments . |
| 30 | She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly . |