Example sentences of "the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third annual report for 1990/91 , subtitled ‘ Bringing it Home ’ was published on 21 June this year . |
| 2 | The girl 's slim figure , small breasts , and pony tail haircut are those of an adolescent , while her pose , one foot at right angles to the other , is just a little away from the third position in classical Western ballet . |
| 3 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 4 | The third perspective is Kao yuan , in which the viewer is looking up towards a mountain scene , as William Willetts puts it , ‘ through successively receding heights represented by flat parallel planes , each with its own horizon ’ . |
| 5 | A white woman named Jane has come here from London , drawn by the glamour of the Third World , supposing herself to have arrived where the action is , where the ‘ doers ’ are . |
| 6 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
| 7 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 8 | Of the stories I have in mind , Othello and Desdemona , Samson and Delilah , Dido and Aeneas , only the third is spoken of , and it is spoken of oracularly . |
| 9 | His adult life has been spent as a psychologist and economist , engaged on problems of development in the Third World . |
| 10 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 11 | Another is Ryszard Kapuscinski , an expert in what he calls ‘ confusion ’ , who has attended twenty-seven revolutions in the Third World . |
| 12 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |
| 13 | An autocrat falls in the first two books ; but the only one in the third is the author-autocrat of the hotel room who sallies into the bush , as if on impulse , to visit the mysterious , moveable ‘ front ’ . |
| 14 | General Jaruzelski bears no obvious resemblance to the Third World autocrats discussed in the first two books . |
| 15 | In the South , the marginality of the third main political party , the Irish Labour Party , is an indication of just how successful the articulation of capitalism to religious and national beliefs is . |
| 16 | And to think , he wrote , that with all my previous work I barely knew what step to take first , let alone what step to take second , let us not talk about the third . |
| 17 | That is what the third part of the project means . |
| 18 | Wait for the third , he wrote , for the return of otherness , oddity , spikiness . |
| 19 | They were celebrating the opening of the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza , Beijing , the third Holiday Inn property in the capital . |
| 20 | ABSOLUT vodka , the third largest selling vodka and the 17th biggest-selling spirit brand worldwide , was imported to the UK last month , marketed by Rivalage . |
| 21 | The third aspect to this book is it 's 40-page recipe section . |
| 22 | Some said this loss of funds was what lay behind a recent broken engagement between the rather unattractive Miss Pinkney and the third son of a titled but impecunious family . |
| 23 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
| 24 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 25 | Madam Gopal Singh , film writer and lecturer at Delhi University will be giving the Third Focus Forum keynote speech and introducing a screening SUBARNAREKHA . |
| 26 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 27 | From Channel 4 's inception , he has encouraged talents that never previously found a place within the mainstream television , in particular through the workshop movement , but also on an international scale through regular features and documentaries from the Third World . |
| 28 | Around the third glass of wine , she would become vehement , a soft rose rising to her cheeks from the ivory-silk of her blouse . |
| 29 | The first night he looks into her bower , the second night he bends over her , and the third night he can not resist kissing her . |
| 30 | At the third corpse there was a faint click , and she looked up as the music stopped . |