Example sentences of "it be [verb] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | For even if the Danes say Yes to the treaty ( see next article ) , worries about it are growing in three European countries that have hitherto been staunchly pro-European . |
| 2 | It 's starting in three minutes . |
| 3 | It is subdivided into three geographical and administrative regions which are independent except at the highest level . |
| 4 | It is based on three words per second as the spoken word . |
| 5 | Inside , the nave has no aisles ; it is covered by three stone domes and the crossing dome is raised on a drum which has 16 windows . |
| 6 | It is bound in three volumes in the form of ‘ four-pages-to-view ’ , and may be read with the aid of a low-powered magnifying glass . |
| 7 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 8 | It is composed of three distinct volcanic edifices , the youngest of which has a large caldera which constrains the surface geothermal activity . |
| 9 | It is staffed by three fulltime teachers , and its aims are similar to the Arbour Project in that it provides continuing education , it takes girls through their pregnancies physically , educationally , emotionally and socially to produce healthy babies and mothers , and it tries to help girls achieve a level of maturity for taking on responsible parenthood . |
| 10 | It is divided into three 10-week terms a year . |
| 11 | It is divided into three sections : the first records the books that are most frequently referred to in the dictionary , the second lists the books in numerical order , the last registers the books in alphabetical sequence . |
| 12 | It is divided into three teaching terms each ten weeks long , with a short vacation of three weeks at Christmas and another of four weeks at Easter . |
| 13 | It is divided into three ; the brothers take two pieces leaving Travers and Marie with one . |
| 14 | And last night refugees , including casualties and children , were feared trapped in the blazing building after it was hit by three mortar bombs . |
| 15 | REFUGEES including children were trapped in a blazing Sarajevo hotel last night after it was hit by three mortar bombs . |
| 16 | It was packed like three or four times a day . |
| 17 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 18 | 3 It was selected by three established embroiderers , Polly Binns , Hannah Frew Patterson MBE , and Audrey Walker , ( with Linda Theophilus , from the Crafts Council ) , and included examples of 17th–19th century embroidery alongside a survey of key 20th century developments . |
| 19 | It was extended for three days after officials reported violence had dropped below the average 30 killings a day . |
| 20 | We can see from ( 47 ) that the cylinder had three soundtracks side-by-side ; presumably it was recorded by three cutters side-by-side , in which case the record would have stereophonic properties . |
| 21 | Erm well it it was on It was compressed onto three disks , so I guess it 's probably going to be about four meg . |
| 22 | It was missing for three years , until recovered unharmed from Bothwell Brig in Lanarkshire . |
| 23 | It was estimated for three and a half . |
| 24 | The inland sea at her door might be seven miles across , but it was enclosed on three sides by islands . |
| 25 | The Czechoslovak government announced on April 4 that it had formally notified the CMEA Secretariat that it was withdrawing from three multilateral agreements designed to regulate the currency rate mechanism which were no longer operational [ see pp. 37326 ; 37334 ] . |
| 26 | Years later it was divided into three houses to accommodate a growing family , and now the middle house and its crumbling neighbours belonged to Smallfry and Buddie . |
| 27 | It was divided into three compounds , as well as a small section for high security prisoners ( there were only three of the latter at the time I visited ) . |
| 28 | In 1982 the Government announced the closure of the dockyard and it was divided into three parts . |
| 29 | Like all Orthodox churches it was divided into three sections . |
| 30 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |