Example sentences of "is [conj] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT HAPPENS in Foucault 's Pendulum is that three editors at a Milan publishing house , vetting manuscripts for a series of books on the occult , decide to amuse themselves by connecting up every conspiracy theory advanced by their half-baked authors and fabricating an elaborate master-plan which explains the whole of world history . |
| 2 | The first is that three nuns from the same order work in the largest of the villages , Kormakiti , and so we provide a useful link . |
| 3 | One possible hypothesis — in fact the correct one — is that three surfaces meet at a point projecting towards the observer . |
| 4 | In a marble group in the British Museum depicting the bull-slaying Mithra the most striking feature is that three spikes of wheat are shown issuing from the wound of the sacrificed bull . |
| 5 | Another curiosity is that three parishes are cities — Ely , Ripon and Wells . |
| 6 | A good guideline on how much memory to use up with stitch patterns and still leave enough over for techniques and so forth , is that three patterns of the maximum size of 15,840 bits will take 47,520 bits . |
| 7 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 8 | The problem here is not one of authorship attribution , since most scholars regard them both as genuinely Aristotelian ; the puzzle is that three books make a double appearance in the manuscript tradition , once as books five , six and seven of the Nicomachean Ethics , once as books four , five and six of the Eudemian Ethics . |
| 9 | The answer is that three other sectors have provided relief — the revenues of North Sea oil extraction from 1980 ( an activity of limited life ) , the profits from selling services to other countries , and the profits on investment in other countries . |
| 10 | The latest suggestion is that three clubs be relegated from the Premier Division next season , with only one gaining promotion from the First Division . |
| 11 | About the only thing that will keep the Chancellor singing in his bath is that three in four want to stay out of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 12 | A snag with the T attenuator is that three resistors need to be adjusted to vary the attenuation yet maintain the input resistance equal to the load resistance . |
| 13 | ‘ Prince Richard is but three years your junior , ’ said Joan cheerfully , refusing to take her complaints seriously . |
| 14 | The analysis is crazy , the reason why we have a public deficit is because three million people and more are out of work and paying no tax . |