Example sentences of "three [noun] [prep] the " 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 | The Commons chose Pelham as a compromise candidate for one of the three commanders of the navy 28 April 1645 , confirmed 2 May . |
| 8 | The spate of record breaking in Irish cycling continues , the latest being the 100 miles figures which were bettered by three riders in the NICF 100 miles Northern Ireland Championship at Cloghmills yesterday . |
| 9 | My basic criticism of all three judgments in the Court of Appeal is that in their desire to do justice the court failed to do justice according to law . |
| 10 | They arrange crews , sailing one per three beginners for the first week ; for the second week they coach on request . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Three views of the purpose of RE |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And it was very very poor holding ground and there was a man on the anchor rope or there was a man on the three ropes on the crews on the three ropes . |
| 15 | There were three bells at the front door — the top marked Stavanger . |
| 16 | There were three bells by the side of the door , and these did have names written by them . |
| 17 | There are three bells in the belfry dating from 1594 but ringing of the bells ceased in 1935 as the bell rollers became in need of extensive repairs . |
| 18 | There are three bells in the tower — age unknown — but they were mentioned in the churchwarden 's accounts in the 17th century . |
| 19 | No there were three there were three bells in the belfry . |
| 20 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The figures obtained are used here to calculate three indices for the commoner species : the percentage frequency , relative abundance and contacts per hour . |
| 23 | First team custodian Fred Barber is only on loan from Peterborough for a month , so there is a good chance that Munson will make his Division Three debut before the end of this campaign . |
| 24 | The testimony of those whose lives have been transformed by his work is very affecting : bonded labourers , now members of the union , some bonded for three generations for the sake of a loan of Rs200 ( £5 ) and a few kilos of padi ; now learning a trade through the ‘ polytechnics ’ established by the Chattisgarh Liberation Front . |
| 25 | Which MP wrote The Maker 's Mark , a romp through three generations of the Hattersley family ? |
| 26 | In 1969 there were three generations of the Holmes family taking part , father , son and grandson . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The author examines the work of the three generations of the family and that of their competitors , Benedetto and Santi Buglioni , and also looks at glazed sculpture by Benedetto da Maiano , Rustici and Sansovino . |
| 29 | Three generations of the same family set for the London Marathon : Andy Andrews , Andy Fearn and Daniel Fearn |
| 30 | Bertie Brydson , weaver , explains the Axminster process to three generations of the one family . |