Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] three " in BNC.

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1 SUNDERLAND are staging three £100 opens tonight , including a trial stakes for the forthcoming £2,000-to-the-winner Milligans Bakery Challenge Trphy , which starts a week tonight .
2 Summons hearings are held fortnightly , and committal cases are held three weeks out of four .
3 At the end of the tour the knights are shown three of the chambers of the mind : phantasy , judgement , and memory .
4 In the second experiment , which lasted 17 days , animals were given three diets that differed in the molecular form of the nitrogen supply — that is , proteins or peptides .
5 The animals were anaesthetised three hours later and gastric blood flow and area of gastric lesions were measured as previously described .
6 Last Winter they suffered the worst floods for fifty years , with some homes being hit three times .
7 What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later .
8 For example , suppose that a partnership is holding three low cards in the same suit .
9 The club is staging three preliminary round matches in the Durham and Northumberland inter-county foursomes as well as the Durham v NE and NW PGA match .
10 In other galleries in Dering Street , Annely Juda is showing three artists in an exhibition titled ‘ Floor→Wall→Floor ’ ( 6 April–23 May ) .
11 The severely mutilated body of Isabel Lozano was found three days later .
12 The British chapter was founded three years ago , and has made its presence felt in various ways , although they emphasise that ‘ We 're terribly shy and retiring — we 'd hate to think anyone felt we like drawing attention to ourselves . ’
13 THe aim of the study was to use three existing datasets to examine in detail the interaction of mothers and young children , and the means by which family difficulties are transmitted .
14 ‘ This torture was repeated three times a day …
15 Mercifully , his car was abandoned three miles away , and two-year-old Natasha Brown was able to tell a passing couple that ’ a naughty man ’ had taken the car .
16 One boat was holed three times and despite baling had taken in a foot of water when beached .
17 A familiar street hawker , usually shifting lighters at two for a pound was offering three for a pound .
18 I remind him that the applicant was interviewed three times , on 24 September , 2 December and 17 December , and was given every opportunity to present his case .
19 The loss of income is a particularly hard blow for Joe because his Lebanese-born wife Elham was duped three times during his captivity into paying ransom money for his safe return .
20 Groups of indomethacin treated rats were killed three or six hours after administration of indomethacin .
21 She enjoyed attending to the whitewashed chapel where compulsory prayers were conducted three times a day and did not feel ill-used when Mrs Prynn chastised her with a whip for letting slip a blasphemy or lying abed longer than she ought .
22 So much so that the crucial coming of the Holy Spirit on Cornelius is recorded three times in Acts , so that no one might miss the message .
23 But 26-year-old Vanessa Curtis is juggling three — and doing well at all of them .
24 Education too gets £1.5 billion more than last year , while the NHS is to get three per cent more after inflation , or £1.9 billion in cash .
25 ‘ Besides , it pays to know a few things about a bloke you 're going to be sharing with , especially when that bloke 's topped three other geezers . ’
26 The big thrust is to develop three subsystems collectively called the Space Laser Triad , which is budgeted for $71 million in 1983 .
27 Essex and Suffolk County Council is offering three evening class courses and a five-week full day course from September with tutor Karen Fox .
28 The County Council is offering three posts and applications are welcomed from highly committed and enthusiastic professionals who are keen to work in an action-orientated team .
29 The tycoon Deacon Chiu is building three film studios at his Tang Dynasty Village , which is due to open in the middle of this year .
30 The Nemo Brass Quintet was formed three years when all its members were students at the Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester .
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