Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 2 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 3 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 4 | A motorist who was five times over the drink-drive limit , twice within 24 hours , was put on probation for two years , and banned from driving for three years by magistrates at Exeter . |
| 5 | She was fined £3,900 , ordered to forfeit her Ford Fiesta car , worth £800 , and banned from driving for three years . |
| 6 | But the legal tangle surrounding ‘ culpability ’ was never really unravelled : no eye-witnesses , contradictory evidence on possible mechanical faults , discrepancies about the time recorded for the breathalyser test — these factors resulted in Kemp getting away comparatively lightly , being banned from driving for three years only , with what must have seemed to many the derisory fine of only four hundred pounds . |
| 7 | PETER Anthony George , 41 , of Amberley Close , Moreton , was fined £315 and banned from driving for three years by Wirral magistrates . |
| 8 | John Turnbull , 49 , of Minehead Gardens , Silksworth , Sunderland , was yesterday banned from driving for three years , fined £450 and ordered to pay costs of £25 by Durham City magistrates after pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol . |
| 9 | Magistrates banned Wilson , who is working as a labourer in the Darlington area , from driving for three years and fined him £350 . |
| 10 | A MOTORCYCLIST who had been drinking and was doing 122mph when stopped by police on the M9 near Linlithgow , was fined £350 and banned from driving for three years at Linlithgow Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 11 | The jewellery tycoon Gerald Ratner has been banned from driving for three weeks for doing more than a hundred miles an hour on the motorway . |
| 12 | With a pair of knitting needles you can make the joining of three stitches together , with a hole on each side , by knitting yarn round needle , yarn round needle , thus starting with three stitches and ending with three stitches . |
| 13 | Patients with this condition occurring within three years of the date of the study were identified and those still under the care of the endoscopy service were recalled . |
| 14 | Heart-beat slowing , the blood oozing from three holes in his body , spreading out to mingle with the drying milk , the gleaming shards of glass . |
| 15 | And to understand how the complex situation was developing we must consider what was happening on three levels : |
| 16 | Analysis of the alternative splicing in the fibronectin primary transcript , reveals that multiple forms arise because of splicing at three sites ; EIIIA , EIIIB and the variable ( V ) region ( IIICS ) ( 22–26 ) . |
| 17 | There 's a bridge across the river consisting of three ropes of thick wire in a V-shape . |
| 18 | The Oxford Examination Delegacy , for example , which has a strong university membership , has instituted an Oxford Certificate of Educational Achievement , consisting of three elements : the traditional examination element ( GCSE or GCSE and A level ) ; the graded-test element ; and the school report or profile element . |
| 19 | At one level this is what happens when we refine our perception of concepts such as ‘ insects ’ ( from which everything small that creeps or crawls to the more precise ‘ creatures with six legs and bodies consisting of three elements : body , thorax , and head ’ ) or ‘ the Victorian age ’ , or ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 20 | At the heart of Freud 's thinking is his model of the human mind ( not the brain ) consisting of three elements : the id , the ego , and the superego . |
| 21 | Here we need to consider sequences consisting of three elements : |
| 22 | The items for both tasks were based on sequences consisting of three elements , such as : |
| 23 | Value for money can be thought as consisting of three elements : ‘ economy ’ , ‘ efficiency ’ and ‘ effectiveness ’ . |
| 24 | Value for money can be thought of as consisting of three elements : economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 25 | In the West Midlands , the evidence of the Worcester court rolls suggests a prevalence of timber-framed buildings , most often consisting of three bays , although some were larger , and it is possible that the smaller houses were less well recorded . |
| 26 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 27 | This court , usually consisting of three members , increases to five members if the sentence imposes death or mutilation . |
| 28 | He also declared that the commons would not proceed with the business of parliament until the king had removed Latimer , Neville and Alice Perrers from court and agreed that a new council consisting of three bishops , three earls and three barons should be named in parliament . |
| 29 | Nematode eggs differ greatly in size and shape , and the shell is of variable thickness usually consisting of three layers . |
| 30 | Lettaford in North Bovey parish , consisting of three longhouses with later farm buildings , represents perhaps the best surviving example . |