Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 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 | To illustrate this , consider a simple example in which producing a woollen coat involves the following three stages of production : |
| 4 | Whitaker , the European champion , rides the same three horses as last year — Next Milton , Gammon and Hopscotch . |
| 5 | Chemical gastritis was found more commonly in patients taking NSAID : H pylori organisms were seen in only one of nine patients , using the standard test , but there were six seropositive cases with this histological entity using Bio-Rad test , and five seropositive patients using the remaining three tests . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Critical thinking problem 12.2 ( See the end of this chapter for answer. ) well-known word , using the same three letters twice , in exactly the same order : |
| 8 | In fig. 5.6(a) , however , the horse : sheep relation is not identical to the sheep : cow relation ; therefore , given the following three elements of a proportion : horse : sheep : : lamb : ? the fourth element is not uniquely determined . |
| 9 | They 'll be given the same three options I should imagine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So you really got the big three institutions , but unfortunately , like everything else , they grew and grew and grew and grew , and there 's forty five engineering institutions ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A few days ago Li Xiannian , a former President , broke his public silence to support the controversial Three Gorges project to dam the Yangtze , but did not use the occasion to back faster reforms . |
| 16 | But I 've never had a sponsor and all that cash went back into financing the next three years . ’ |
| 17 | As regards to various er other chores like deleting a set of files or copying a set of files , if you do n't want the ninety three files any more you just delete all the files in the directory . |
| 18 | He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections . |
| 19 | South Korea have won the last three tournaments . |
| 20 | Only a late-order rally through the efforts of Godfrey Furse and skipper Graham Watts helped the last three wickets add 41 runs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Can you us a bit more explanation as to why you say the first three sectors are better than the last three , |
| 23 | The Working Party on Language in Teacher Education has the following three aims : |
| 24 | How would you describe the other three sets c ) , d ) and e ) ? |
| 25 | So far we have considered the first three elements . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | None of the pupils had ever met the other three visitors . |
| 28 | In fact , no player received the required three votes to qualify and in the players ' ‘ Player-of-the-Year ’ award each player voted for himself . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Beneath this box was another which he had to tick in order to receive the next three months ' editions of the newsletter . |