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

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1 Try to relate events to the Third World .
2 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 .
3 There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two .
4 Much of the chemical knowledge , expertise and resources needed to solve problems in the Third World already exists .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) .
9 Who is taking positive measures to prevent mothers in the third world feeding formula made with contaminated water to their babies ?
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