Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the third " in BNC.

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1 Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day .
2 Try to relate events to the Third World .
3 They need either to win by more than 50 points or rely on Darlington RA beating Bishop Auckland if they are to pip Bishops for the third promotion place from Durham and Northumberland Division One .
4 The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage .
5 Much of the chemical knowledge , expertise and resources needed to solve problems in the Third World already exists .
6 It has designed programmes to develop chemistry in the Third World through education and training , providing services for laboratories in developing countries , and publishing information about chemistry for development .
7 The Ibrox side face a potentially hazardous trip to Lanarkshire to face Motherwell in the third round at Fir Park on January 9 .
8 To counteract these attempts and to shift the ‘ correlation of forces ’ further away from the West in these regions the USSR was tempted to seek facilities in the Third World to enhance its development of long-range air and naval capabilities .
9 Of the total money , 38 per cent went to research projects in the third world , 25 per cent to particular species and site projects , and 5 per cent to " debt-for-nature " swaps .
10 LASMO has agreed to sponsor a team of ten players to take part in the third annual Brain Game .
11 The first screening of 1992 is to take place during the third week of May .
12 The Bishop of Oxford has appealed to the Government not to cut aid to the Third World .
13 The oil crisis in all East European member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) , sparked off in July by the unilateral Soviet decision to cut deliveries in the third quarter of 1990 , worsened considerably in October as it became obvious that the Soviet Union would fail to make promised fourth quarter deliveries in full .
14 Veljko Kadijevic , the National Defence Minister , in a speech to the Collective State Presidency , responding to the EC peace plan , accused Germany of " being about to attack Yugoslavia for the third time this century , … preparing first for an economic and then a military assault " .
15 Who is taking positive measures to prevent mothers in the third world feeding formula made with contaminated water to their babies ?
16 Despite a sure-handed debut against Brazil in the 1–1 Washington draw that restored English pride , the Southampton player will be asked to make way for the third goalkeeper on the trip , Crystal Palace 's Nigel Martyn .
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