Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 2 | In the summer vacation after the second year and during the first term of the third year , they will , if possible , study Persian in a Persian-speaking country . |
| 3 | By the first half of the third century some expositors ( Cyprian , Origen ) begin to speak of the books as a single book , because given by the one author , God . |
| 4 | A letter by King Areus of Sparta to the Jews , which would date the discovery of the family connection in the first half of the third century B.C. , was probably forged to provide a background for the authentic correspondence of the second century ( cf. 12.7 ) . |
| 5 | certainly has earned his few quid tonight , about to take this goal kick , we 're inside the final minute of what has been a very good first half for the third division side , one goal each . |
| 6 | And of course , there in the first bar of the Third Act is the harmonic kernel of Puccini 's entire output , the tritone , oscillating on the basses between A and E flat . |
| 7 | At the first turning of the third stair |
| 8 | NEW ZEALAND pace bowler Danny Morrison grabbed five wickets for 37 runs as Australia collapsed to 139 for nine on the first day of the third and final Test in Auckland . |
| 9 | Courier 's only glimmer of hope came when he broke serve in the first game of the third set , but it was only a momentary lapse of concentration by the German , who so likes to win in front of his countrymen and women , as he broke back in the next game . |
| 10 | Following Burmese patterns the lines were usually of four syllables with the rhyme coming back diagonally from the fourth word of the first line to the third of the second , the second of the third and the first of the last line . |
| 11 | Move the cursor to the first letter of the third paragraph ( the ‘ T ’ of ‘ The page … ‘ ) |
| 12 | Marxists criticize neo-Marxists for concentrating too much on questions of international exchange and terms of trade ( exploitation by the First World of the Third World ) and too little on questions of productiou and ownership ( capital accumulation and class struggle ) . |
| 13 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 14 | It was the first time during the Third Reich that a Führer speech had provoked such direct criticism in the reportage of upper civil servants . |