Example sentences of "[to-vb] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 2 | Friends of the Earth responded by asserting that there was sufficient interest among energy suppliers to provide three times that amount . |
| 3 | The new Expert Analysis software , which includes automatic problem identification , is claimed to provide three types of diagnostic information : Symptoms , Diagnoses and Explanations . |
| 4 | The biggest anuran of all , the goliath frog from West Africa , is able to jump three metres or so . |
| 5 | He is helping to supervise three post-graduate associates in a marketing exercise for BICC , which marks a broadening of the scheme 's primary role in manufacturing . |
| 6 | He is helping to supervise three post-graduate associates in a marketing exercise for BICC , which marks a broadening of the scheme 's primary role in manufacturing . |
| 7 | Anyone possessing the gall to launch three blows into orbit and over the fence in the opening 20 minutes of the day , as Hooper did at The Oval last August when West Indies were following on , is no mere mortal . |
| 8 | These examples help us to establish three things : |
| 9 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 10 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 11 | Erm the preponderance of our members throughout the length and breadth of the country , er initially was not to accept three year package deals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A few hours earlier two more big bombs were found as the country 's commercial capital went determinedly back to work three days after the blasts that killed at least 250 people . |
| 14 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 15 | In Pakistan , it is common to find three generations of a family living in the same house perhaps together with aunts , uncles and cousins . |
| 16 | An hour later , he awoke to find three figures clustered around his bed , dressed in white and wearing face masks . |
| 17 | It was this arrangement that led to Branson waking up one morning in March 1976 , at his home in Denbigh Terrace , to find three men standing at the foot of his bed demanding money . |
| 18 | Branson 's role in the Atra deal had been negligible , and his first reaction on waking up to find three men standing at the bottom of his bed demanding £5,000 was one of confusion and outright terror . |
| 19 | It would be hard to find three individuals more unalike than we are , which is probably why we 've stuck together all these years ! |
| 20 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |
| 21 | As part of an informal agreement between the two companies Kew will sell FlexArray alongside its systems integration solutions and to find three Unix and Novell NetWare-based distributors by January 1993 . |
| 22 | He was astonished to find three detectives knocking at his door to arrest him a couple of days later . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm trying to find three rooms on the same floor . ’ |
| 24 | Instead , the totality itself is said to contain three instances political , economic and ideological — one of which is dominant ; and the identity of the dominant instance is in turn determined ‘ in the last instance ’ by the character of the economic mode of production . |
| 25 | Elisabeth had been ordered to stand three feet away and witness the murder . |
| 26 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 27 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 28 | An 0.5 kb DNA fragment encoding aa 44 to 216 , corresponding to the N'-terminus of the human clone , was used as a probe to isolate three clones from a mouse cDNA library of PCC4 embryonal carcinoma cells ( Lambda ZAPII , oligo(dT) and random primed cDNA library from Stratagene ) . |
| 29 | They used to come three times a week with lumps of ice , oh as big as that , about as thick as that , in bags . |
| 30 | That same day he not only thought we were in Denmark but decided that it was imperative to write three letters to his cousin Marianne in New York — simultaneously ! |