Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | C&A has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to erect three store signs on the Cornmill Centre . |
| 2 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |
| 3 | A secretary is seeking High Court permission to sue three doctors who she says failed to spot a hip deformity when she was a baby . |
| 4 | It is now elementary that the tort of negligence involves three factors : a duty of care , a breach of that duty and consequent damage . |
| 5 | After all , if you 're a superstar , it 's no good admitting that you found a route given three grades easier than your latest creation anything but a path ! |
| 6 | The new type of molecular scissors , called a ‘ minizyme ’ , is a refinement of the ‘ gene shears ’ technique announced three years ago by two scientists at another CSIRO laboratory in Canberra . |
| 7 | The mini cow produces three to four litres of milk a day — compared with six litres produced by a full-sized zebu — and survives on a tenth the grassland . |
| 8 | The guardian asked three climbers going down to the village to inform the police , as he was unable to contact them himself since the refuge radio was broken . |
| 9 | Our formulation has three advantages . |
| 10 | Acrobat has three components . |
| 11 | The cottage has three downstairs rooms , including a kitchen built into the hillside . |
| 12 | Bargaining has three elements which are common to all situations , whether formal or not : |
| 13 | The Park has three lochs and the picturesque village of Duddingston with its Norman church . |
| 14 | The chest has three different padlocks and can only be opened when all three keyholders , the vicar and the two hospital wardens , are present . |
| 15 | Rear vice jaw has three positioning slots ; max width between jaws is 8in |
| 16 | Each heavy-duty Celcon plastic hook has three pins built in : you just place the hook against the wall , hammer the pins through , and that 's it ! |
| 17 | Any logogen accepts three types of evidence : visual ( contributed by the visual analysis of visual input ) , acoustic ( contributed by acoustic analysis of acoustic input ) and semantic ( contributed from the cognitive system ) . |
| 18 | The mobile kitchen has three industrial cookers , a large Calor gas ring , sinks and a giant fridge ; a freezer truck is parked on the forecourt . |
| 19 | Triton 's new variable shower sprayhead has three easily adjustable spray patterns . |
| 20 | The SMP graduated assessment has three stages , each of which contains assessments in written , mental , practical and oral modes . |
| 21 | Praxis has three areas of business : critical systems ( including its work on the UK Defence Research Agency 's Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology , and high reliability display information solutions ) , database application development for the oil , chemical and pharmaceutical industries and consultancy . |
| 22 | The bowler 's end of the field has three control points : two push-button switches marked Bowl and Return Ball respectively , and the Bowling Rate selector switch . |
| 23 | The reserve covers three acres of the valley and is home to early purple orchids and broadleaved cotton grass . |
| 24 | I mean , if the cheque bounced three times before your wah-wah pedal went wrong , can you really blame the dealer for being a trifle tardy with the repair … ? |
| 25 | ( It may seem ironical that the initial question of whether the case should go to arbitration or trial involved three hearings — two in the county court and one in the Court of Appeal . ) |
| 26 | The interviews used the framework outlined in Table B. This framework has three columns covering the three stages of scanning . |
| 27 | In dealing with exemption clauses the UCTA has three possible reactions : the imposition of a total ban on all exemption clauses of that category ; the imposition of a ban on all such clauses unless in the circumstances the clause satisfies the criterion of " reasonableness " ; and no imposition of a ban at all . |
| 28 | Hot sand , ash and rock tumbled three miles down deep gullies towards villages and farms on the lower slopes . |
| 29 | The release action involves three factors controlling the ball 's flight : — |
| 30 | The department offers three single-honours Bachelor of Engineering ( BEng ) degrees of four year 's duration , one in Electronics and Electrical Engineering , one in Communications Engineering , and one in Microelectronics , and a five-year Master of Engineering ( MEng ) honours degree in Electronics . |