Example sentences of "three [noun] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times she went one side of a tree when Schmidt went the other , emerging again without breaking her conversation . |
| 2 | In two of the three cases which attracted most publicity the issue of whether the women had consented was an important component in the case , though in one of these there was an additional racial theme in the identification of the accused as black . |
| 3 | The three books which give this impression of relentless fun are The ZX Spectrum and how to get the most out of it ( hardly a winner of the snappy title award ) by Ian Sinclair ( Granada , pp 144 , £5.95 ) , and Easy programming for the ZX spectrum and Computer puzzles for spectrum and ZX81 by Ian Stewart and Robin Jones ( shiva , pp 144 , £5.95 and pp 64 , £2.50 ) . |
| 4 | During the early part of World War Two , the Air Ministry had targeted three areas which required special attention . |
| 5 | I mean the way we look at it really is to group villages together so perhaps they 'll have more cover if they 've got two or three specials who work different hours if they have a vehicle they can have access to , provide the cover there . |
| 6 | In answering the question , whether Thom Gunn is sentimental in his poems about AIDS , I have decided to examine three poems which explore different aspects of Gunn 's experience of the disease and its victims . |
| 7 | By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both . |
| 8 | When Vicky came out after three weeks she confirmed that fear . |
| 9 | In three days they covered 400 miles . |
| 10 | The worst thing about the job is dealing with bureaucracy while the best thing is the two or three days I spend each week out on the hill getting my hands dirty , visiting worksites and clients . |
| 11 | For the first three years he endured abject misery . |
| 12 | One morning I was called up in front of the 2ème Bureau and walked into an office to be interviewed by three Sergeants who spoke perfect English . |
| 13 | The conclusion from all these studies , that processing of Kanji is less dependent on the integrity of the left hemisphere than processing of Kana , is supported by electrophysiological findings ( Hink , Kaga and Suzuki , 1980 ) and by results obtained with three patients who sustained partial commissurotomy in the course of removal of pineal gland tumours ( Sugishita , Iwata , Toyokura , Yoshioka and Yamada , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | Despite the development of radiation strictures in three patients none required open surgery . |
| 15 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
| 16 | The Copenhagen meeting was attended by three physicians who provided clinical services with the new reproductive technologies , one neonatologist , one lawyer , two sociologists , one psychologist , two economists , two epidemiologists , two health service researchers , one consumer advocate , and one representative of the media . |
| 17 | He had been picked out at an identification parade only after his photograph had been shown to the prosecution witnesses — three criminals who got shorter sentences for helping the police . |
| 18 | Gower , who averaged 50 in the three Tests he played this summer and 44 throughout his Test career said : ‘ To say I am disappointed is an understatement . |
| 19 | Then cos you had er three warnings you got five minutes before and er then you had a the erm final warning and then the blasting and the they give you the all clear . |
| 20 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |