Example sentences of "[is] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , more important is the third meaning of impetus which has also to do with physical performance . |
| 2 | Sir : Uppark is the third great house which the National Trust has lost through fire since the last war . |
| 3 | Christopher Gray , one of the small number of English members of the SI , is the third commentator I found to be not entirely sympathetic . |
| 4 | The 72-seat restaurant/bar , selling authentic French food , is the third in the South-west for owner Kambiz Shayegan . |
| 5 | Where it 's at : Leeds is the third largest city in England , with a population of around three quarters of a million . |
| 6 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 7 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 8 | THE ‘ anti-crisis programme ’ of the Soviet prime minister , Valentin Pavlov , is the third tranche of an economic-reform plan that began in January with the confiscation of 50- and 100-rouble notes and continued in early April with huge price rises . |
| 9 | Aluminium is the third most abundant element on earth . |
| 10 | The vendor is the third generation of the family who has lived there since 1919 , and is understood to have decided to sell rather than continue to face the task of maintaining the estate . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , Garavogue , or Caravogue , the river , is the Third Woman of Sligo . |
| 12 | But , then , the most difficult movement to play is the third . |
| 13 | The space between them is the third dimension . |
| 14 | The streets are full of For Sale notices , although close inspection shows they refer to repossessions in which Southend is the third worst case in the country outside London ; the local paper carries two pages of bankruptcy notices a week . |
| 15 | It is the third house Geoffrey , a property developer , has designed for the family . |
| 16 | This is the third lightweight I have owned , but the first 24 volt one . |
| 17 | It is the Third World poor . |
| 18 | Is the Third World expected to imitate the West , and if so what would the consequences be ? |
| 19 | It is the third group which concerns us , since it is closely related to selection methods . |
| 20 | Belgium is the third highest consumer of beef in the EEC ( nearly 24kg per capita ) but well down the production list at 336,000 tonnes per annum . |
| 21 | His term of office came between those of two Ministers with close associations with Portadown — the Reverend R H Gallagher BA ( whose first sermon at the beginning of his last term in Portadown had a singularly apposite text : ‘ This is the third time I am coming to you ’ II Corinthians 13 v 1 ) and the Reverend W. E Morley Thompson . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , fog is the third most important hazard in Europe after floods and volcanoes . |
| 23 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 24 | Operon is the third British drug disaster in a generation . |
| 25 | This is not unexpected , for it is the third edition of a tome first published 25 years ago and extensively used . |
| 26 | The origin of the volume is the third workshop on the Physical and Neuropsychological Foundation of Music held at Ossiach , Austria , in August 1980 . |
| 27 | NEC is the third biggest computer manufacturer in Japan after Fujitsu and IBM Japan . |
| 28 | The next stage in the story is the Third Period . |
| 29 | The Second Period established that right , it is the Third Period which has provided the near total destruction of it . |
| 30 | Thus began , for developing man , the most important part of his existence in the universe , and this is the Third Period which started with the dawn of civilisation , and continues to the present day . |