Example sentences of "three [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Saint-Jean-Baptiste , because it is a large church , there are three tiers of galleries along the sides and five tiers , no less , at the west end , facing the altar . |
| 2 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 3 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 4 | There are essentially three groups of differences between the brains of people with schizophrenia and the brains of non-schizophrenic persons : anatomical , biochemical and functional . |
| 5 | There are three groups of participants in the discount market : ( a ) the Bank of England and other issuers of bills , ( b ) the discount houses and ( c ) the banks . |
| 6 | Yeah it 's got three chest of drawers at the end bit |
| 7 | As general introductions to the subject , three books by members of the Department may be recommended : Alastair Fowler , A History of English Literature ; W.W. Robson , A Prologue to English Literature ; and — to cover more recent developments — Randall Stevenson , The British Novel since the Thirties . |
| 8 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 9 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 10 | Thai Deputy Prime Minister , Thienchai Sirisamphan , who held three rounds of negotiations with the hijackers , told reporters all the passengers were Burmese . |
| 11 | The three areas with farmers in the upper age brackets often had their families working on the farm . |
| 12 | It is well to share this perception that learning is at the heart of development because , even after nearly three decades of activities in the NHS , development is still associated by many managers with ‘ going on courses ’ . |
| 13 | The Duke of Edinburgh was the guest of honour at the ceremony , at which he was presented three jars of cherries from the orchard . |
| 14 | A general strike called by the United Workers ' Front ( FUT ) brought Ecuador to a standstill on Sept. 23 , the culmination of three weeks of protests against the austerity measures . |
| 15 | Its the third attack in three weeks on mares in the Princess Risborough area . |
| 16 | At the end of three days of talks between the government and the ANC a government official on Dec. 4 expressed optimism that multiparty talks would resume by February 1993 . |
| 17 | - You think you 're buying three pounds of onions in the shops , get home and find you 're actually carrying a bag of the new season 's hyacinth bulbs . |
| 18 | They belong to the work which he disowned and attempted to destroy when he relaunched himself with ‘ Three Studies for Figures at the base of a Crucifixion ’ ( 1944 ) , the triptych which opens all conventional accounts of Bacon 's art . |
| 19 | His first major painting is generally acknowledged to be ‘ Three studies for figures at the base of a Crucifixion ’ shown at the Lefevre Gallery , London , in a mixed show with works by Moore and Sutherland . |
| 20 | Regnier was preparing an exhibition on the theme of Picasso 's crucifixions , for which Bacon had often expressed his profound admiration , and the ‘ Three studies for figures at the base of a Crucifixion ’ will be shown there . |
| 21 | Erm , I 've got a three four four page letter from the Ottery youth section , erm , and their we run at the moment three teams of boys between the age of ten and sixteen . |
| 22 | Though this again represents an unexpected finding on subgroup analysis , more than three quarters of men in the Medical Research Council 's trial were non-smokers , and one could argue that both studies observed increased cancer mortality in non-smoking men treated with atenolol . |
| 23 | In March three bodies of members of the Communist Party ( PCCh ) had been discovered on land formerly owned by the army at La Colina near Santiago . |
| 24 | Quinn was racing down the three flights of stairs to the lobby-level . |
| 25 | Also included were copies of the search and arrest warrants , a religious tape and three magazines with articles on the situation . |
| 26 | Results of three sets of experiments in the presence of calmodulin are shown with standard deviations marked by errors bars . |
| 27 | Sims 's social reporting began in 1881 , with three sets of articles in the Sunday Dispatch — ‘ The Social Kaleidoscope ’ , ‘ The Three Brass Balls ’ , and ‘ The Theatre of Life ’ . |
| 28 | By any standards the jobs are small , yet people have to make available three sets of plans for the planning department , three for the building control department , three for the Housing Executive and three for the occupational therapists department . |
| 29 | Adair argues that any working situation produces three sets of needs for the people involved and therefore effective leadership is determined by the variables operating in a given situation : |
| 30 | Behind these three sets of arguments about the limits to law 's powers in dealing with family matters may lie a fourth argument about law itself . |