Example sentences of "up [prep] three [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't be realistic to expect Christmas to make up for three flat years , ’ commented Sue Butterworth at Silver Moon Bookshop on the Charing Cross Road . |
| 2 | The proposal — involving the setting up of three wholly-owned subsidiaries to separate handling of household supplies , industrial sales and pipeline transmission — represents a compromise on the more radical proposals put forward by the industry watchdog , Ofgas , for dismantling the company into separate regional suppliers . |
| 3 | However , our foods are made up of three major components which provide energy : carbohydrates , fats and proteins . |
| 4 | Then , the therapist can try to shape what has been said by introducing the notion that anxiety is made up of three separate components . |
| 5 | These circles then touched others , forming groups of three , or ( since the bottom circle could be made up of three little ones ) five . |
| 6 | Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities . |
| 7 | The structure of this process can be considered to be made up of three main parts : |
| 8 | At its higher levels , what we call culture is made up of three formative elements : Socratic love of knowledge ; [ the Apolline impulse towards ] the beauty of art ; and [ Dionysiac ] metaphysical [ faith ] in the essential indestructibility of life . |
| 9 | The change in my approach to mathematics began when I joined an in-service Diploma in Mathematics Education.2 In the first week I was given the task of making a 3 x 3 x 3 wooden cube made up of three different pentacubes and three different tetracubes . |
| 10 | The complex is made up of three different types of subunit each with its own enzymic activity . |
| 11 | This total ‘ envelope ’ , as the Treasury calls it , is made up of three different kinds of grant , as follows : |
| 12 | The perming process is made up of three basic elements — the perm solution which breaks down the structure of the hair ; the curler around which the hair is wound and the neutraliser which resets the hair into its new shape around the roller . |
| 13 | It is 2.4 m in diameter , and made up of three vertical blades which rotate in the river 's current , connected to a generator . |
| 14 | The following Aria from Dallapiccola 's opera Il prigioniero has equal eight-beat phrase-lengths throughout ( indicated by dotted slurs ) and is made up of three rhythmic elements : repeated crotchets , occasional pairs of quavers , and the dotted rhythm , which occurs only twice : This thematic material ( which recurs frequently in the opera ) comprises a series which begins on C and covers the first five full bars . |
| 15 | These results show that the magnetosheath-like plasma precipitation was , in fact , made up of three poleward-moving events from an extended sequence of such features . |
| 16 | George Henry Adams , of Portadown , had been sentenced to a total of 12 months , made up of three consecutive terms , each of four months . |
| 17 | We joined up with three other girls in the Manor House at Old Wolverton . |
| 18 | Barwick had earlier made a spectacular start to this day , opening up with three straight birdies . |
| 19 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 20 | Inevitably I end up with three different files , one showing the worst case scenario , one showing what I really expect to happen , and one showing the absolute best I could ever hope for . |
| 21 | The Arab world has now broken up into three separate components and it is difficult to see how they can be reassembled . |
| 22 | Life Assurance ( this is broken up into three basic types ) |
| 23 | This lycropolysacrulite is can then be broken up into three different sections the internal membrane section is referred as lipid A. |
| 24 | I there is a worry of course , that , er County Farms if we happen to end up in three unitary authorities , could be said to be not a core activity of those three new authorities , especially the core of an urban one , and it may be that if we 're not careful the County Farm estate can end up in the hands of the residuary body for sale , and I think what we 're looking , asking Mr to do , is to find ways of , of moving it forward , without ha falling into that net , which may not be what we want . |
| 25 | A balance sheet can be drawn up in three different ways . |
| 26 | Up to three external caches are expected to be supported . |
| 27 | The connection between the two is made with a two-wire bell cable , and up to three additional sensors can be added using the same two-wire cable . |
| 28 | The lime-mud dried up to form chalk up to three hundred metres thick , creating , for example , the South Downs of England , parts of the Loire and , of course , Champagne . |
| 29 | Some strings have a solid centre core and then up to three outer wrappings of spun or woven small strings . |
| 30 | Plymouth–Roscoff ( Brittany Ferries ) : up to three return crossings daily , reduced winter service . |