Example sentences of "[verb] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll also enjoy three nights accommodation with bed and breakfast in the Hotel Stadt Berlin . |
| 2 | The new Expert Analysis software , which includes automatic problem identification , is claimed to provide three types of diagnostic information : Symptoms , Diagnoses and Explanations . |
| 3 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 4 | Friends of the Earth responded by asserting that there was sufficient interest among energy suppliers to provide three times that amount . |
| 5 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 6 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 7 | Ma should have known — she once caught three of us , |
| 8 | A chases B. When B is caught , s/he freezes , eyes closed , counts to 5 , then chases A. The game continues for as long as you want — or to a pre-set time limit , or when somebody is caught three times , for example . |
| 9 | The biggest anuran of all , the goliath frog from West Africa , is able to jump three metres or so . |
| 10 | Having owned three Citroens and a Renault , I am greatly impressed with the quality of French cars . |
| 11 | He had a video camera on his shoulder last November , when a mob doused three thieves with petrol and looked on as they burned . |
| 12 | That erm it might be wise or advisable , I 'd be interested to hear your views Colin and others perhaps even council procedures , you know on , on how far you can go in checking out er because I mean , you know you get something which tells you what was happening three weeks ago . |
| 13 | A WOMAN aged 63 underwent plastic surgery yesterday after her face was slashed three times in an apparently motiveless attack . |
| 14 | To illustrate this , let us consider three hypothetical firms A , B , and C. The assets that comprise firm A have a 10% chance of producing a cash inflow of £1,000 at the end of a given time period and a 90% chance of producing cash flows of zero . |
| 15 | We shall consider three : |
| 16 | We can consider three possible changes : |
| 17 | Now let us consider three different conditions each representing a different degree of anxiety within the same task . |
| 18 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 19 | In the next section we shall consider three sceptical arguments which are strong enough to be worth taking seriously . |
| 20 | We shall consider three answers to the question , which form a sort of spectrum . |
| 21 | Later we shall consider three different theoretical frameworks which attempt to identify the motor-force of changes in the world economy and of nations within it , but first we shall look in general terms at the historical characteristics of the international economic system in which Britain operates . |
| 22 | Apart from the objection of principle that this is merely state capitalism I shall consider three further points . |
| 23 | If , as I hope , the book is soon reissued in paperback , the author might consider three small improvements . |
| 24 | Tile lagoonal facies has been disputed and the estuarine facies is complicated in various ways and confuses the issue , so let us just consider three of these facies : the offshore , the deltaic and the fluviatile . |
| 25 | ‘ That you should consider three and a half thousand pounds a lot of money ? ’ |
| 26 | We shall consider three categories of two-component liquid mixtures : completely miscible liquids water and ethanol partially miscible liquids water and butan-1-ol immiscible liquids water and oil |
| 27 | In order to come to grips with the reasoning behind this rather sanguine conclusion we must consider three important magnitudes : the money wage rate , W , the absolute price level , P , and the nominal stock of outside money , OM . |
| 28 | To ease a headache , lie down and place three of these crystals on your forehead — one pointing up to the crown and two pointing towards it from the left and right sides . |
| 29 | Place three cups on a table , one upwards and two downwards , and say to everyone the game is to turn over two cups at once so that cups the right way up are turned upside down and vice versa . |
| 30 | Place three needles in a row to tuck and one needle to knit , rather than the four as shown in the card . |