Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | this autumn for the third year running . |
| 7 | We light this candle on the third Sunday of Advent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is clearly unfair that so much tax in the Third World falls on the backs of those least able to pay . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Poetry somehow has so much more meaning in the Third World . |
| 13 | ‘ That man in the Third Gauls , get a move on ! |
| 14 | Incidentally I got that information on the third law from a very reliable source . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was following the family pattern of talking about children in their own presence in the third person instead of addressing them directly . |
| 17 | That acclaimed show is now the model for ‘ Assault on the Arts : Culture and Politics in Nazi Germany ’ , the New York Public Library 's own examination of the Third Reich 's cultural policies . |
| 18 | If economic catastrophe is added to the political disintegration , the consequences for Europe could be dire , not only in terms of the millions of refugees who are already predicted , but possibly through the sale of nuclear weapons to any body of people or any Government in the third world or elsewhere who have the hard currency to pay for them . |
| 19 | We now treat the same matrix by the third variant ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 20 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 21 | In-Service Training day fees are being held at the same cost for the third year running , despite inflation and a probable increase in the cost of premises for Q.T. days . |
| 22 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |