Example sentences of "[vb past] the three [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teacher placement in industry have formed the backbone of the UBI activities since the project was set up in 1977 , but formal schemes date back to the early 1960s , with LEAs such as Leicestershire acting as pioneers in the field when the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) first piloted the three week Introduction to Industry Scheme for teachers . |
| 2 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 3 | Ross co-wrote the three part Channel 4 series , which takes a look at the underbelly of the US , with Jack Barth , who also collaborated on a book called Roadside America . |
| 4 | The Waldron City Herald night editor must have had a fit trying to decide which one got the three inch banner . |
| 5 | They condemned the three year sentence as ‘ totally inadequate ’ . |
| 6 | The Reporter , Gordon Sloan , told the three Panel Members that the grounds for referral had not changed since the last Hearing three weeks previously . |
| 7 | They reduced the three seat constituencies from 26 to 13 , and increased the four-seaters from 10 to 13 and the five-seaters from six to 15 . |
| 8 | THE family of the young Donegal woman dismembered by a 19-year-old man today slammed the three year prison sentence given to the killer . |
| 9 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |
| 10 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 11 | After 2 days ' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary . |
| 12 | In its formal reading of the judgment on March 27 , the Court of Appeal vindicated the three appeal judges , led by Lord Lane , who in 1987 had dismissed the mens ' appeals , saying that the scientific issues were not the same . |
| 13 | Of the 120,000 people who attended the three day meeting last year , 33 suffered at the hands of pickpockets despite a huge police crime prevention campaign . |
| 14 | Last year 1,000 people attended the three day festival and on the Friday and Saturday nights Arts Centre staff were turning beer fans away by 8.15pm . |
| 15 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 16 | At this conference , the King gave the three party leaders a virtual instruction that they should form a National Government under MacDonald 's leadership . |
| 17 | Jimmy Reddan said the three year sentence for killing and dismembering his sister was ‘ a disgrace ’ and would not act as a deterrent . |
| 18 | Robert Thomson , the union 's Scottish secretary , said the three north-east parliamentary constituencies — Kincardine and Deeside , Gordon and Banff and Buchan — were among the top five throughout the whole of Britain with the fastest rising levels of unemployment . |
| 19 | In a direct snub to the SNP 's three MPs , the former Govan MP praised the three cabinet spokesmen , Alex Neil , Kenny MacAskill and Roger Mullin , who resigned at the weekend , for defending the party 's left-wing credentials . |
| 20 | All of the 68 patients , with or without hepatitis delta virus infection , had the three hepatitis B virus envelope proteins detectable in the liver , on the plasma membrane and/or in the cytoplasm . |
| 21 | After all , it was n't so long ago they had the THREE Arvedladze brothers bearing down on them in Dinamo Tbilisi shirts . |