Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [prep] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 2 | For 1992 the dividend has been increased from three kroner to five ( 50p ) to sweeten shareholders , including many in Scotland who subscribed for the rights issue last year at 175 kroner . |
| 3 | If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans . |
| 4 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 5 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 6 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 7 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 8 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 9 | A solicitor , Angus Diggle , has been jailed for three years for attempted rape in Scotland . |
| 10 | A man has been jailed for three months for shooting dead a pair of swans . |
| 11 | FORMER Liverpool City Council trade unionist Tony Gavin , who stole welfare funds , has been jailed for three months . |
| 12 | A joyrider who crashed his car and killed a partially sighted pensioner has been sentenced to three years custody for causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 13 | The incomplete tablet V52 + 52b + 8285 has been reassembled from three fragments and gives a list of dedications , including offerings to the gods Poseidon and Paiawon , who was an early forerunner of Apollo . |
| 14 | But its price tag of around £100 million made it too expensive for a purely national project , and the cost has been split between three countries with Britain and the US joining the Netherlands . |
| 15 | THE protection order on the River Tay , which prohibits fishing for freshwater species without official permits , has been continued for three years by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 16 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 17 | and there 's more news today on the incident in which scrum-half Hannaford fractured his eye socket … the Saracens number eight Barry Crawley who threw the punch in the league game last week has been suspended for three weeks … |
| 18 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 19 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 20 | Subsequent work in Ecuador has been divided into three programmes under the control of individual residential BGS geologists working with counterparts from the Ecuador Institute of Mines ( INEMIN ) . |
| 21 | The work during the year has been divided into three fields of activity : |
| 22 | THE NOBEL Prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists who developed ultra-precise techniques that lie at the heart of modern atomic clocks . |
| 23 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 24 | A COACH , who became so incensed with his opposite number at an U8 match in New Zealand , has been banned for three years for punching and knocking him unconscious with the result that specialist surgery might be required for a fractured cheek bone and other complications . |
| 25 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 26 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 27 | He left his wife six years ago and has been divorced for three years . |
| 28 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 29 | This account of urban housing in the reign of Queen Victoria has been protracted for three reasons . |
| 30 | The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months . |