Example sentences of "be the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming on duty , on what must have been the third morning for our ‘ C ’ cases I met Sister Hancock coming unsteadily down from the theatre . |
| 2 | Denying entitlement to whole groups of the population has been the third aim , and this has been particularly noticeable in the case of young claimants . |
| 3 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 4 | The cuts are the third time Shearson has laid off staff since the market crash of 1987 , and are the highest on Wall Street this year . |
| 5 | Current models , launched in 1988 , are the third generation , slotting in between the sporty 3-Series and the luxurious 7-Series . |
| 6 | FIS races are the third tier of international competition , below the world cup and continental cups ( Europa and North American ) but they still count for world rankings , which are based on FIS points , and can therefore attract good quality fields when their dates do not clash with more important events . |
| 7 | Poverty , hunger , violence or homelessness , our social conditions , are the third main cause of mental illness and the least acknowledged . |
| 8 | But today the fittest populations in the technical sense of the term are the Third World . |
| 9 | We are the third item . |
| 10 | The second target is more demanding and was blocked by MITI on the grounds that Japan is already an efficient user of energy whose emissions of gaseous carbons are the third lowest in the industrial world . |
| 11 | Heading the alliance are the Third World Network , a network of non-governmental organisations , and the Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends . |
| 12 | ‘ If the Liberals are the third party , ’ he asks , ‘ who is fire and theft ? ’ |
| 13 | because we we 're the third party we 're not allowed to appeal against it |
| 14 | Tony Wright will be the third captain in as many years . |
| 15 | It will be the third world title fight in the North-east in six months , following two IBF cruiserweight fights won by Glenn McCrory of Co Durham . |
| 16 | This was to be the third of my many run-ins with that typically British authoritarian institution , which is never happy unless making trouble . |
| 17 | Mr Kerr-Muir , 51 , will be the third ex-sugar industry executive working at Kingfisher . |
| 18 | Post-war Vienna , rain-soaked cobbles , Orson Welles throwing a moody , Trevor Howard looking incredibly British — ah yes , this must be The Third Man . |
| 19 | Plenty of people skirted the area : in 1730 Whitehaven was said to be the third busiest port in England , after London and Bristol . |
| 20 | At the time , the CCCP was considered to be the third , fourth or fifth largest wine producing country in the world ; any reliable figures were buried in bureaucratic tangle . |
| 21 | In 1983 another massive crop occurred — this was again met with joy , although the Champenois would certainly have been dismayed had 1984 turned out to be the third consecutive bumper year . |
| 22 | She would be the third woman in Major 's Cabinet . |
| 23 | It would be the third time that he had taken part in the escape and evasion exercises of the Presidential Guard . |
| 24 | This will be the third year running in which the economy has hardly grown , or even shrank . |
| 25 | He will be the third person to hold the job at the 53-year-old company , reportedly selected after a two-year process . |
| 26 | More important may be the third reason — the poor trade union structure for agricultural workers . |
| 27 | Conversation on the topic gave Flaubert a colique des wagons ; in June 1843 he pronounced the railways to be the third most boring subject imaginable after Mme Lafarge ( an arsenic poisoner ) and the death of the Duc d'Orleans ( killed in his carriage the previous year ) . |
| 28 | Yes , but , the the main part of this as I understand the drawing , you 'll have to ask Mr when he comes , but the main part of , of the square , which would n't be the third which is done in the first phase according to the phase that they 're currently proposing . |
| 29 | Owen McAuley will be the third Ulster driver in the British series . |
| 30 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |