Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] to three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 7 Certificates at the end of the petition : ( a ) the period of search for prior petitions has been reduced to three years ; ( b ) where a statutory demand is based wholly or in part on a county court judgment the following certificate , which replaces the affidavit or county court search , is to be added : " I/We certify that on the day of 19 I/we attended on the County Court and was/were informed by an officer of the court that no money had been paid into court in the action or matter . |
| 4 | She had been sentenced to three months in jail . |
| 5 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
| 6 | It was the first time in the tournament Graf had been extended to three sets , and the seven games Sabatini won in the second set were just one fewer than Graf had conceded in her four previous rounds . |
| 7 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ Listen , I 've been married to three actresses and if you want a career , I will send you merrily on your way . |
| 9 | Causal path diagrams have been extended to three variables to show how the factors are hypothesized to interrelate ; these diagrams are useful because they force explicit decisions to be made about the causal order of the variables , and lessen the risk that the analyst will control for the wrong variables . |
| 10 | The targets have been limited to three Cath , around three . |
| 11 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |