Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] third [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was no inheritance in the case , you see , for Robert Beckenham was only a third son and chose to live at home in idleness rather than follow a profession . ’ |
| 2 | The report should have said ‘ if war permits ’ for , by October 1915 when the Annual General Meeting was reported in the Standard it was only the third press account that year and it indicated the Club was in dire straits . |
| 3 | Reportedly he was only the third choice for the post . |
| 4 | For this period he was the leader of the party which gave the Government nine-tenths of its majority , but he was only the third man in the hierarchy . |
| 5 | My predecessor , who played the double-bass , had been appointed in 1935 , and I was only the third headmaster to hold office since the death of Queen Victoria . |
| 6 | Sophie Parke was only the third child in Britain to receive two hearts in a piggy back style transplant . |
| 7 | It was only the third script to be completed ( Coburn 's ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ serial , retitled ‘ Doctor Who and 100,000 BC ’ , and John Lucarotti 's ‘ Journey to Cathay ’ preceding it ) , but at once Whitaker felt he had found the right niche for Doctor Who 's presentation of science fiction . |
| 8 | It was only the third time Huntworth has got round in his last 13 races under Rules , but those three completions have brought three wins . |
| 9 | That was only the third time it had happened in New Zealand . |
| 10 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 11 | As the successor to the League it was also a third party to the Mandate agreement with South Africa . |
| 12 | His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter . |
| 13 | ‘ It was also the third shut-out in a row for Andy Goram . |
| 14 | There was certainly a third wing which is marked by that there |