Example sentences of "[prep] a fourth " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 2 | Glass as trace of a fourth dimension , he wrote . |
| 3 | The audience file in to discover three actors sitting ragged and disconsolate under the eye of a fourth who is reading the Bible and shouting ‘ Shut up ! ’ at intervals . |
| 4 | They knew of a fourth case , later confirmed to be that of Keith Parchment , and believed the fifth referred to the Brown case , which technically involved two separate trials . |
| 5 | And there 's talk of a fourth model . |
| 6 | The final say in such an administration would rest with the President who is obliged , within the framework of a fourth mandate , to call upon all three party leaders to sink their differences and create a tri-party administration . |
| 7 | This would produce the ‘ fundamental realignment on the Left ’ which Paddy Ashdown has said would be the inevitable result of a fourth Labour defeat . |
| 8 | On board , though , a party of bridge players in first class found themselves short of a fourth , and Annesley filled the gap . |
| 9 | In A Minor Pentatonic , the exception is C-E , which gives you a major third in place of a fourth . |
| 10 | There are variations , the most distinctive being the addition of a fourth line to the leading edge , midway between the two cross-spars . |
| 11 | January sees the start of a fourth series , and a fifth will be filmed in the spring . |
| 12 | Mr Nichol represents the three men serving life for the killing and the family of a fourth who has died . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're always short of a fourth . |
| 14 | struggle between two conceptions of the press : the one of a Fourth Estate , with proprietorship a form of public service and journalists a species of public philosophers ; the other of the press as an industry , with proprietors as businessmen and journalism a trade or craft . |
| 15 | Shares in Maxtor Corp slid after the disk drive company shocked the market with news of a fourth quarter loss ( see page five ) , and the price dipped $1.25 to $6.375 on Friday ; the company blamed ‘ severe price competition , ’ which hit gross margins ; it says the negative pressures of the fourth quarter will continue into the first quarter of fiscal 1994 , but predicted that plans to put new products on the market ahead of the competition ‘ is the key to winning new OEM customers and minimising the effects of industry price-cutting . ’ |
| 16 | In Europe from the twelfth century onward , feudal society was affected by the gradual transformation of local markets into permanent towns , with important implications for the emergence of a fourth stratum . |
| 17 | In other corners and other rooms , dozens of other topics floated gaily on the lively , slightly choppy waters , their pennants bobbing and fluttering in the end-of-year , the terminal breeze : the approaching steel strike , the brave new era of threatened privatization , the abuse of North Sea oil resources , the situation in Afghanistan , the Annan report , the prospect of a fourth television channel , the viability of Charles 's attempt to conquer the United States , the Cambridge Apostles , the disarray of the Labour Party , the deplorable vogue for Buck 's Fizz as a party drink , the Yorkshire Ripper , the Harrow Road murderer , the Prince of Wales . |
| 18 | Population dispersal followed the Greater London model : town expansion and the building of three new towns ( East Kilbride , Cumbernauld and Bishopton ) , and the possibility of a fourth at Houston , and a green belt covering the agricultural land in the middle and lower Clyde basins . |
| 19 | A significant accomplishment for 1992 has been the addition of a fourth — Marquis by Waterford Crystal — to the Group 's portfolio of internationally renowned brands . |
| 20 | Even so , this is a shortened Session , and as we must wait until next year for the start of a fourth Conservative term in office , we must now get on with the measures contained in the Gracious Speech . |
| 21 | During a visit by the Italian President , Francesco Cossiga , in November , the two countries ' Foreign Ministers signed a protocol on the construction of a fourth gas pipeline across the Mediterranean and on increased co-operation in the petrochemicals sector . |
| 22 | This came to light on Aug. 7 after the collapse of a fourth round of negotiations on exchange rates between the East German Economics Minister Gerhard Pohl and the then Czechoslovak Foreign Trade Minister Slavomir Stracar . |
| 23 | The agreement came in the wake of a fourth attempt , in as many weeks , to reach a consensus among members . |
| 24 | A policeman was killed during a protest in Taipei county on Oct. 3 against the construction of a fourth nuclear power plant . |
| 25 | A well known right-wing extremist , Gottfried Küssel , was arrested on Jan. 7 after the broadcast of a television interview in the United States in which he called for the restoration of the Nazi Party to power and the creation of a Fourth Reich . |
| 26 | Jerry Rawlings , chair of the ruling Provisional National Defence Council ( PNDC ) , set out a timetable for returning to civilian rule culminating in the inauguration of a Fourth Republic on Jan. 7 , 1993 . |
| 27 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 28 | The sensitivity of a fourth serological test , Bio-Rad GAP Test IgG , is identical to that of the standard tests but its specificity is significantly lower . |
| 29 | The Trotskyist branches , on the other hand , wanted the formation of a Fourth International with the centralizing and directing power which the NAC refused to countenance in the Comintern , or encourage in the Left Socialist Bureau . |
| 30 | Sunderland were playing against a fourth team ( whose tenure in the First Division was not in doubt ) . |