Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] three " in BNC.

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1 This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites .
2 The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’
3 Tests are also available to help teachers monitor the progress of students using the first three Streamline coursebooks : Departures , Connections and Destinations .
4 We treat it by the method of Equation ( 2.6.4 ) , using the first three rows , to obtain with x4 =1 , unc so that we find at once
5 Now one of the major issues that we 're concerned about of course is the overtime erm which is , if you review the last three months of the overtime which we did the other day , erm we obviously , we spent the annual budget erm allowance .
6 We do this , notionally , in any matrix multiplication : if we are performing the operation BC = A then we isolate a row of B and a column of C — respectively ( 1 × n ) and ( n × 1 ) submatrices — to produce an element — i.e. a ( 1 × 1 ) submatrix of A. Similarly , we could , for example , isolate the first three rows of B and the first four columns of C and multiply these submatrices , of order ( 3 × n ) and ( n × 4 ) , to give a ( 3 × 4 ) submatrix in the top left corner of A. Again , since unc it makes no different if we divide the range , s , of summation into subranges ; each subrange can be summed , and these sums added to give the total .
7 Now I , I 've rung the Claremont and they 've said , oh yes , it 's the conference erm you know amount and we 're very , appar we were , I was very lucky cos we got the last three rooms .
8 Some DM2.15 billion ( US$1.36 billion ) has been set aside by the research ministry , the BMFT , to support the first three years of the plan .
9 But I 've never had a sponsor and all that cash went back into financing the next three years . ’
10 He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections .
11 South Korea have won the last three tournaments .
12 and then it 'll memorize the next three or four pages from that one .
13 Only a late-order rally through the efforts of Godfrey Furse and skipper Graham Watts helped the last three wickets add 41 runs .
14 He had added the last three words with the same morose carelessness with which he had decried the car dealers ' convention , but he offered no elucidation as to what the words meant .
15 Can you us a bit more explanation as to why you say the first three sectors are better than the last three ,
16 See , we found the last three of the ten dogs of that killer pack the sect kept .
17 So far we have considered the first three elements .
18 ‘ They know they have no option but to stay in the job and try and do better , but the harsh truth is that those who have high production costs and low productivity will not survive the next three or four years of rapid transition . ’
19 Note that unc and unc can not both be zero , or A would be singular and R would not exist ; similarly for unc We choose a nonzero element from these four -say unc and then unc The last step is not arbitrary : we must exclude the first three rows ( containing units ) , so that the only choice for pivot in the next step is D44 , which can not be zero .
20 However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP .
21 Spooning the garlic and ginger paste into the snapper and over their skin , he dropped the first three fish on to the grill and called down to the other Latinos to bring plates and cutlery from the galley .
22 Beneath this box was another which he had to tick in order to receive the next three months ' editions of the newsletter .
23 So far , most of the effort has been devoted to unifying the first three categories of physical interactions , the strong and weak nuclear forces and electromagnetism .
24 Weights then dropped and a mere one and a half ounces separated the next three anglers as Middlesbrough Newman Scott 's Alan Webb edged into runner-up position landing a mainly skimmer bream net of 3.3.8 to feeder and maggot off the grassy bank .
25 Mardenborough , who has missed the last three games with a medial ligament injury , could be sidelined again after he pulled out of Wednesday 's reserve game at the last minute .
26 All 12 runners , including defending Sprint champion Sheikh Albadou , Rodrigo De Triano , Dr Devious and Selkirk , failed to reach the first three .
27 The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places .
28 Japan , Taiwan and the USA filled the first three places with other major investments coming from Hong Kong , Singapore and Australia .
29 In a hectic sidecar race British crews filled the first three places with Kevin Webster winning from Kieron Kavanagh and David Hoskin .
30 Three British crews filled the first three places in the sidecar race .
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