Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the roundabout at the Southern end of the town there are three roads with the same road number . |
| 2 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |
| 3 | Flowering shoots of winter jasmine , J. nudiflorum , should be cut back to within two or three buds from the main stem , while the oldest stems on honeysuckle should be cut back close to the base . |
| 4 | This time , he appeared in the heavyweight division where he produced similar results , throwing his three opponents in the preliminary rounds for ippon ( 10 points ) . |
| 5 | There were three attitudes to the United Front within the ILP . |
| 6 | Under the new system all of those services would be put into the hands of three authorities within the existing county boundaries . |
| 7 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 8 | This procedure is depicted above for the first three values of the repeated median smooth , shown in full in figure 9.9 : Thus 47 is the value to be smoothed , the skip mean 43.5 is the mean of 40 and 47 and the smoothed value 45.2 is the rounded mean of 47 and 43.5 . |
| 9 | By way of introduction , this chapter outlines three views about the proper role and status of the media : the Mobilizing Ideal , the Libertarian Ideal , and the Public Service Ideal . |
| 10 | There were three bells at the front door — the top marked Stavanger . |
| 11 | From the tops of the Three Peaks to the rich green valley bottoms and the rushing rivers and waterfalls , the Yorkshire Dales is one of our most cherished walking areas . |
| 12 | The figures obtained are used here to calculate three indices for the commoner species : the percentage frequency , relative abundance and contacts per hour . |
| 13 | Bertie Brydson , weaver , explains the Axminster process to three generations of the one family . |
| 14 | The 73-year-old spinster , who worked for three generations of the same family for 56 years , was dragged 30 yards before falling under the giant wheels . |
| 15 | Three generations of the same family set for the London Marathon : Andy Andrews , Andy Fearn and Daniel Fearn |
| 16 | It is striking that much of the evidence belongs to the two or three generations after the papal reform . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that the majority of the great London families survived there for no more than three generations in the male line , and it was certainly rare for men to prefer city life to that of the country ( 104 , p.205 ) . |
| 18 | A good guideline on how much memory to use up with stitch patterns and still leave enough over for techniques and so forth , is that three patterns of the maximum size of 15,840 bits will take 47,520 bits . |
| 19 | I summarise below three meetings from the past year . |
| 20 | 4 Three coins of the Roman Emperor Philip ( AD 244–9 ) . |
| 21 | We 've averaged statistics on the windy season from three resorts over the last six years . |
| 22 | So those three graphs for the simplest bit , superimposed . |
| 23 | An overall 7% increase in spending was recorded because the three groups with the highest average spending were the groups who were most likely to experience increases in budgeting allowances — i.e. Counties , Inner London and Northern Ireland authorities ( see Table 16 ) . |
| 24 | He discovered loose rivets and serious fretting which had occurred between the main beam and the first three crossbeams on the right-hand side only . |
| 25 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 26 | The process of the development from parable to allegory can be clearly seen when a comparison is made of the three accounts in the Synoptic Gospels . |
| 27 | Simon Griffith was confirmed as treasurer , Basil Rooney will continue as cashier , and Janet Foster , Marianne Hodgson and David Foster were elected to fill three vacancies on the parochial parish council . |
| 28 | F. W. de Klerk was sworn in on Sept. 20 , 1989 , as the new executive President , chosen on Sept. 14 ( following elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament ) by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives , and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 29 | F. W. de Klerk was on Sept. 14 , 1989 , elected as executive President by the electoral college , after elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament . |
| 30 | All three houses of the General Synod voted in favour of reversing centuries of tradition . |