Example sentences of "it [verb] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps for this reason the topmost stone supposedly retains its own curious powers : it is said that when a cock crows nearby , it turns three times . |
2 | It involves three elements : a source of the objects , the screen with its slits and a second screen which incorporates some means of detecting the objects which hit the different parts of it . |
3 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
4 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
5 | It incorporates three influences : Roman , Byzantine and Romanesque . |
6 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
7 | It has three bells cast by a London foundry in 1865 . |
8 | It has three ingredients : the retention of a face-to-face critical dialogue between the course team and a review panel ; the inclusion in the panel of some members external to the institution ; and the incorporation of panel members internal to the institution , usually from disciplines other than that of the course up for review . |
9 | Unlike most ovens , it has three shelves instead of the usual two . |
10 | This is a sentiment I strongly agree with , but as an argument it has three problems . |
11 | The 10 per cent guar loaf has 25 per cent less digestible carbohydrate , and hence 25 per cent fewer calories , than white bread , yet it has three times more fibre . |
12 | It has three times as many as the Metropolitan Museum in New York . |
13 | It has three stages : |
14 | It has three roads and is served by two overhead electric cranes . |
15 | When new schedules are made available to an organization using a classification scheme , it has three options : |
16 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
17 | As someone has said , it has three words beginning with the letter P — it is a philosophy armed with a plan and fought with passion . |
18 | It has three parameters start time , duration and repeat time . |
19 | A grand Victorian building , it has three acres of garden with a pond and hard tennis court . |
20 | It 's a triangle entails It has three angles Lesley is Arthur 's mother entails Lesley is female |
21 | It has three modes of operation controlled by its pins 1 and 19 . |
22 | In the south you will find Crux Australis , the Southern Cross , which is not genuinely X-shaped ; it is more like a kite , but it contains three stars of above the second magnitude . |
23 | It contains three products : flavoured milks , fruit juices and biscuits . |
24 | As well as a facsimile of the Mannerist painter 's diary , it contains three texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn : a commentary , an analysis of his life as seen by Vasari , and a long essay on the Santa Felicitá ‘ Deposition ’ . |
25 | It contains three points of view ; those of Victor Frankenstein Mr Walton and the creation . |
26 | It rose three storeys high from the cobble-stoned street , its pale stone exterior clear and uncluttered . |
27 | There are 98 ways that a quark can travel between two points if it interacts three times with gluons . |
28 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
29 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
30 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |