Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , he appeared in the heavyweight division where he produced similar results , throwing his three opponents in the preliminary rounds for ippon ( 10 points ) . |
| 2 | The process of the development from parable to allegory can be clearly seen when a comparison is made of the three accounts in the Synoptic Gospels . |
| 3 | The candidate replies ‘ I believe and trust in him ’ three times to the successive questions ‘ Do you believe and trust in God the Father/his Son/his Holy Spirit … ? ’ . |
| 4 | A ten-minute wait round a low coffee table bearing three London telephone directories and three copies of the Yellow Pages . |
| 5 | BBC1 have the London Marathon in the morning , starting at 8.55am , then it 's over to ITV in the afternoon for the Rumbelow 's League Cup final between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest , and in the evening BBC2 give more than three hours to the closing stages of the US Masters from Augusta . |
| 6 | Michael was already slipping into a coma after three hours in the cold seas . |
| 7 | Data was collected on the three variables for the existing shops and the following model emerged : £ Sales per week = 193 + 0.23 x shoppers + 0.118 x floor area |
| 8 | He was accused under three main charges : that he launched the invasion with no plan to counter a British military reaction , that there was no co-ordination between the three branches of the armed forces and that Argentine forces were left without support as the British advanced . |
| 9 | Oh well we 've got three kids in the big bedrooms have n't we Alison ! |
| 10 | Three units of the Reserve Forces are attached to the University Section , Royal Naval Reserve ; the Officers Training Corps , and the University Air Squadron . |
| 11 | The next phase will be er this phase , site three er , which we will be providing twenty one er , flats to rent as your nominees er three units for the special needs and for those like I told you , it 's about twenty four rented to nominees we 've had the funding for that pre-allocated by the housing corporation so they are er , committed to , to funding that . |
| 12 | The Collective State Presidency failed to convene in Brioni on July 15 or 16 due to the refusal of the Serbian block to participate ; when it finally met in Belgrade on July 18 with all members present as well as the Federal Prime Minister ( Ante Markovic ) and the Ministers of Defence , Interior and Foreign Affairs , a surprise agreement was reached ( with Mesic voting against and the Bosnian representative abstaining ) to begin immediately to pull all troops out of Slovenia within three months to the neighbouring republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia . |
| 13 | Not the least fascinating aspect of the story , which broke the day after France 's quarter final defeat by Switzerland — and barely three months after the memorable celebrations which had accompanied their winning of the trophy for the first time in 59 years — was that although Noah 's decision was said to have been known to his players and coaches several weeks earlier , no-one apparently bothered to tell French Tennis president , Philippe Chatrier . |
| 14 | General Baratieri , hearing he was to be superseded in command of the Italian forces , advanced by night with three columns through the rocky hills and gorges near Adua to give battle to Menelik 's army , which numbered a hundred thousand men . |
| 15 | My father was detected when he donated three bottles to the annual police raffle . |
| 16 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |
| 17 | Fished over three days on the prolific rivers and lakes around Galway , bumper catches expected . |
| 18 | The pair also spent three days at the new Cosmiques Refuge for acclimatization purposes , a heavy financial investment in the plan . |
| 19 | It was discovered that the five year contract he had signed with the right wing government three days before the general elections entitled him to £724,000 . |
| 20 | Three days before the presidential elections , the military government on Dec. 11 , 1989 , granted the Central Bank full autonomy under new statutes which allowed the Finance Minister to attend meetings and to have a 15-day veto on policy . |
| 21 | The sample size for the first three years of the Social Attitudes Survey was between 1700 and 1800 . |
| 22 | I can get if for you for about three pounds for the pure crystals . |
| 23 | In the fourth , Man , with the help of the three soloists from the other movements , overcame the bat-like figure representing Fate . |
| 24 | Only one ship , the Star , was in the three ports at the right times , and this morning the Star left London to sail back to Georgia . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He rattled up three birdies on the final holes , to move into Palmer 's shadow with a four under-par 67 . |
| 27 | American troops made up over three quarters of the Allied forces : for the first time American soldiers were fighting their Axis enemies on the ground . |
| 28 | The Cabinet did not , the party machine did not , the constituencies did not , at least three quarters of the Conservative members of the House of Commons did not . |
| 29 | Three members of a Colombian drugs cartel who used Oxford language schools as a cover have each been jailed for ten years . |
| 30 | So could I presume to make just two or three points about the current ills of the NHS ? |