Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the third month running . |
| 2 | DECADENCE has come to the Third Rome . |
| 3 | Add the cream , bring to the boil ( without letting it boil over ) and cook for 5–10 minutes or until the cream has reduced by a third . |
| 4 | Such is the case of an innocent person into whose pocket a thief , in order to escape detection , inserts a purse which he has stolen from a third person . |
| 5 | Spending on new roads has increased by a third since 1979 , and is planned to double again ; Okehampton bypass built through Dartmoor National Park ; 110 SSSIs are threatened with road schemes . |
| 6 | Under headlines such as ‘ Fiend 's third victim ’ ( Daily Mirror ) and ‘ Terror of tape bondage rapist ’ ( Sun ) , it was noted how ‘ a sticky-tape sex-fiend has struck for the third time ’ bringing ‘ terror to a triangle of Hampshire towns ’ . |
| 7 | Over 70 per cent has moved under Title I , concessional sales , of which 80 per cent has gone to the Third World , representing almost one-third of total US direct aid to them . |
| 8 | It has shrunk to a third of the original draft 's 120 pages . |
| 9 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 10 | ( 5 ) Where any property transferred under an agreement to which this section applies has passed to a third party the references to that property in subsections ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above shall be construed as references to its value at the time of its transfer under the agreement . |
| 11 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
| 12 | Under Article 37 , an obligation that has arisen for a third party can not be revoked or modified without the consent of the parties and the third party unless they have agreed otherwise . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd won after the Kevin I thought , I thought I 'd won after the third round so I ate them . |
| 14 | We may have to wait until the third one . |
| 15 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 16 | If Jack had had to protect his pitch at Dagenham and White City in the days when men were men , he would n't have survived until the third race . |
| 17 | The town is unlikely to have appeared before the third century . |
| 18 | A different form of core appears to have existed from the third century at Godmanchester , after the creation of the open marketplace and the construction of the official ‘ Basilica ’ building adjacent to the mansio compound . |
| 19 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 20 | She was to be the Honourable Lady Penelope , a British aristocrat who was seeking the protection of an influential Wehrmacht officer after Britain had fallen to the Third Reich . |
| 21 | Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third . |
| 22 | Mr Adams pointed out that the profits of Ford of Britain had risen for the third year running to a record £673m and he calculated a further increase to £710m was likely this year . |
| 23 | Those who stared through telescopes or field glasses saw how drastically the two climbers had slowed on the third day . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've played in the Third Division with Walsall and I do n't want to go back to it . ’ |
| 25 | However , Schäuble said that any refugee who had arrived via a third country in which asylum could have been requested would be sent back , and that reciprocal expulsion arrangements with Poland and Czechoslovakia would be renegotiated to reduce the numbers of asylum-seekers . |
| 26 | He remembered that the rat had disappeared inside the third picture on the right . |
| 27 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 28 | In 1985 their consumption was roughly the same as in 1973 , even though real GNP had increased by a third . |
| 29 | A survey in 1992 showed that chough numbers had increased by a third since the previous survey 10 years earlier ; 1,247 pairs were counted , compared with 950 pairs in 1982 . |
| 30 | They 've asked for a third . |