Example sentences of "[be] [verb] third " in BNC.
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1 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
2 | Clearly , this standardised approach to search and retrieval is a major publishing limitation , all the more significant because Sony do not think of themselves as publishers and are seeking third parties to support their platform . |
3 | He said : ‘ It 's terrible , particularly as we 're sitting third in the League . |
4 | Members of the Guinness family are ranked third , fourth , eighth and ninth . |
5 | Some farmers have even improved their workers ' conditions as a result : at least Westerners are giving Third World workers one small thing of value . |
6 | APPRENTICE car technician Craig Wilson , 18 , of Stow Avenue , Prescot , has been judged third in the 1993 Trainee of the Year awards for his work at Superdrive 's Warrington centre . |
7 | The problem was that they purported to benefit persons who at civil law could only be considered third parties . |
8 | It left the French golfer four strokes ahead of Gronberg , with Davies one stroke further behind , to be sharing third place with Annika Sorenstam from Sweden . |
9 | While the purpose of creating commodity organisations was neither to escape liability nor to create profits for the organisation itself , but to control dealings in the commodity for the benefit of member States , the consequence has been to deprive third parties who were dealing in good faith with the organisation of a domestic judicial remedy . |
10 | He has been seeded third behind the defending champion , Sandy Lyle , and the US Masters winner , Nick Faldo . |
11 | Elsewhere in this issue you will read of the latest Economist survey of Britain 's survey of Britain 's Most Admired Companies in which we were placed third overall ; top in our business sector ; top in quality of management ; and second in our quality of marketing . |
12 | Elisabeth noticed Bo-Bo and the Colonel were stationed third row centre . |
13 | Reid on loan FOOTBALL : Leicester midfielder Paul Reid is joining Third Division Bradford on loan until the end of the season . |
14 | Martin Henderson , of Baltasound , Unst , who is starting third year studies for a BEng ( Hons ) degree in electronics and electrical engineering at the University of Edinburgh ; |
15 | , mill manager at that time , is pictured third from left , front row , immediately in front of ( wearing glasses ) of which owned at that time . |
16 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
17 | ‘ I think the best solution to all this is to have third country umpires like we have in other sports . ’ |
18 | The purpose of the Enterprise is to involve Third World countries in mining nodules and give them a share in the profits . |
19 | In 1989 , with a defence budget of $27,150 million , Japan was rated third behind the USA and the Soviet Union in terms of overall defence expenditure . |
20 | Be it a coincidence or an answer to prayer , Ray Powell , a senior backbencher and a strong supporter of the Keep Sunday Special campaign was drawn third in the ballot . |
21 | I was lying third . |
22 | And you 'd put that on top of the flimsy and you 'd close the book and you 'd take the book and put it in the letter press and squeeze it Archimedes theory of a screw and this thing My cousin later told me , was bought third hand in eighteen sixty nine . |
23 | N'Zau Puna , formerly secretary-general of UNITA , was ranked third in UNITA 's hierarchy with the title " interior minister " . |
24 | Ace was running third , his team-mate ahead of him , their closest opposition in the lead . |
25 | The other architects to be awarded prizes for Second Empire designs on the War Department list were Botrel d'Hazeville , whose grand scheme resembling the Louvre was given second place ; John Thomas Rochead , whose design united the two offices in an ornate single building with high-roofed corner pavilions , was awarded third place ; the brothers , Edward and William Habershon , whose scheme for one large building with prominent central and corner pavilions and mansard roofs , around a central quadrangle , was given one of the fifth equal places ; along with John Dwyer , whose treatment was very similar to Rochead 's , but less ornate . |
26 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
27 | Runners-up were the National Deaf Club of London and the Brighton Branch was adjudged third . |