Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 3 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 4 | Western countries are overflowing with dangerous waste — and their first thought is to dump it in the Third World . |
| 5 | And to insert it between the third and fourth word can change the meaning rather dramatically . |
| 6 | It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted . |
| 7 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State has been trying to say that he is a friend of the inspectorate , despite his proposal to cut it to a third of its current size , and he has created pandemonium . |
| 9 | The technology necessary to produce films , and television and radio programs , is so much more advanced in the industrialised countries than in the LDCs , that it is frequently much simpler and cheaper to import material than to produce it in the Third World . |