Example sentences of "it [vb -s] three [noun] " 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 | It incorporates three influences : Roman , Byzantine and Romanesque . |
| 4 | It has three bells cast by a London foundry in 1865 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unlike most ovens , it has three shelves instead of the usual two . |
| 7 | This is a sentiment I strongly agree with , but as an argument it has three problems . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has three times as many as the Metropolitan Museum in New York . |
| 10 | It has three Vermeers ( only 30 exist ) , notably Head of a Girl and View of Delft ( to Proust , the most beautiful painting in the world ) , a dozen jolly Steens , full of lasciviousness and coded morality , a dozen or more great Rembrandts , and Paulus Potter 's huge Young Bull . |
| 11 | The NPP is building television in its own states , while it has three state radios and three daily newspapers . |
| 12 | It has three stages : |
| 13 | It has three roads and is served by two overhead electric cranes . |
| 14 | When new schedules are made available to an organization using a classification scheme , it has three options : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It has three parameters start time , duration and repeat time . |
| 18 | A grand Victorian building , it has three acres of garden with a pond and hard tennis court . |
| 19 | It 's a triangle entails It has three angles Lesley is Arthur 's mother entails Lesley is female |
| 20 | It has three modes of operation controlled by its pins 1 and 19 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It contains three products : flavoured milks , fruit juices and biscuits . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | It contains three points of view ; those of Victor Frankenstein Mr Walton and the creation . |
| 25 | There are 98 ways that a quark can travel between two points if it interacts three times with gluons . |
| 26 | It kills three people a day in the UK and affects a total of 6,000 . |
| 27 | All I remembered is , they got , it 's chocolate and it 's got brandy in it , cos she was gon na put , I think it says three teaspoons |
| 28 | In its recommendations , the IEHO said that any pool should be fully supervised by trained staff unless it fills three criteria ; the pool is used infrequently ; a relevant member of staff is always aware when the pool is in use ; and that use be restricted to adults of known swimming ability . |
| 29 | Sovereign can be adapted according to customer needs and there are now 80 staff on the Sage Hotline to offer support — though it reckons three quarters of the 2,500 daily calls it receives relate to business rather than technical problems ! |
| 30 | Well , er , it shows three hours erm , every morning cold calling . |