Example sentences of "three [noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers can travel in the three coaches featured in The Darling Buds of May on most days in this period . |
| 2 | Three mutations directed at the C-helix face of the protein have also been analysed . |
| 3 | Tallis-Holly watched and soon three riders passed from the human world , an old man , a young man , a woman with a face like stone . |
| 4 | The rural family was a close-knit one with , at times , three generations living under the one roof . |
| 5 | Yates , who was busy setting up John and Mary in New York , went down to Baltimore two or three times to participate in the nocturnal meetings . |
| 6 | Clarke usually worked at home , often with their five daughters and three sons playing in the same room . |
| 7 | The three authors focus on the artistic mode of production , its socio-historic contextualisation , and its patterns of collection respectively . |
| 8 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
| 9 | However , in volume terms , exports were up seven per cent in the last three months compared with the previous three months and was up 13 per cent on a year ago . |
| 10 | Dr Wesnes said that using volunteers with ‘ fake ’ Alzheimers Disease enabled a new drug to be evaluated within three months compared with the three to five years for a full-scale trial on ‘ real ’ patients . |
| 11 | One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits . |
| 12 | Two trips were organised due to three pregnancies coinciding with the first dates . |
| 13 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 14 | George made two or three telephone calls from the nearest box , handed over the minute inspection of Orlando Benyon 's shed to the appropriate people , made contact with the police pathologist and his own chief at C.I.D . |
| 15 | Three elements refer to the female presence , all of them dealing with an essential lack . |
| 16 | Nichols ( 1969 , p. 12 ) views PPB as following five processes which accord to the three elements outlined in the previous paragraph . |
| 17 | On Christmas Day in 1806 , three boats comprising of the entire fishing fleet of Stotfield , a fishing village near Lossiemouth in Scotland , prepared to put to sea for a day 's fishing . |
| 18 | And there are three tracks credited to The 52 Key Verbeek Fairground Organ . |
| 19 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 20 | In each of the three sections there are three statements relating to the key autumn products — Arelon WDG , Hoegrass and Decis . |
| 21 | Weaving and dodging , the three planes shuffled across the blotched and shuddering sky . |
| 22 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 23 | The trophy for the cow achieving the highest butter fat and protein records over three years went to the British Holstein Castledon Donfloss 4 , belonging to Norman Gotts , of Wickford , Essex . |
| 24 | He had spent three years building on the excellent co-operation between the Bureau and the Yard that he had inherited from Darrell Mills . |
| 25 | However , because they had been unemployed , they had not earned enough money in the previous three years to qualify for the mature student allowance , and so it was denied to them . |
| 26 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 27 | If you missed the chance to win this fantastic three night stay in the Big Apple in our September issue , have a go NOW ! |
| 28 | Our Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , was given three thrillers to review by the Daily Telegraph : Geoffrey ( not to be confused with Lord ) Archer 's Eagletrap ( Century ) , Clive Egleton 's Hostile Intent ( Hodder ) and J K Mayo 's A Shred of Honour ( Harvill ) . |
| 29 | The Spennymoor super heavyweight forced the referee to step in after Hopper had pounded the more fancied Craig Parsons of Brighton into three standing counts in the second round . |
| 30 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |