Example sentences of "three were [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other three were seated round the rickety kitchen table , its surface covered with empty coffee mugs , lager and Coca-Cola cans and an overflowing ashtray . |
| 2 | Three were shot on the Crumbles on 15 August 1903 ; three were seen at Warnham Mill Pond on 20 March 1908 ; one was seen on Amberley Wildbrooks on 24 March 1926 ; two , one of which was eventually shot , were present in the Rye/Midrips area from 17 November 1946 to 22 February 1947 . |
| 3 | Of the workers ' representatives , three were elected from the shop floor , one from the administrative workers and one from the technicians , engineers and graduate staff . |
| 4 | All three were born after the July 1988 ban on using ruminant protein in feed for other ruminants . |
| 5 | As a close friend of the ANC president , Oliver Tambo — with Mr Mandela the three were seen as the organisation 's ruling ‘ troika ’ — he is certain to become a leading force in South African politics . |
| 6 | Our analysis includes the geographical area covered by Gardner et al but follows it too closely in time to provide data to test their findings ; only cases 12–14 in table III ( one non-Hodgkin lymphoma , one leukaemia , one Hodgkin 's disease ) were diagnosed after the period covered by the Gardner study and moreover all three were conceived before the parents moved to Seascale . |
| 7 | During the 1983 — 7 Parliament two seats were won at by-elections but three were lost in the 1987 general election . |
| 8 | Three were selected as the most important : freedom , rationality and manipulability . |
| 9 | The aircraft proved popular with the pilots and a further three were ordered by the CAA . |
| 10 | The other three were caught with the joints in their hands . |
| 11 | All three were distributed throughout the Labour Party conference last week in Brighton and all three are available this week in Blackpool . |
| 12 | The three were taken to the CPVPV headquarters in al-Muraba ’ in Riyadh . |
| 13 | For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net ! |
| 14 | All three were initiated at the 1990 Frankfurt Bookfair Seminars where Asian participants pledged themselves to passing on what they had learnt to their colleagues . |
| 15 | The aim , therefore , was both to create new centres of national capitalism and to neutralize the capacity to obstruct this process of the three dominant powers of backward Europe — the Tsars , the Habsburg emperors , and the monarchs of Prussia ( the three were interlocked in the tripartite division of Poland ) . |
| 16 | Eventually three were chosen for the first investigation — the products of Bacillus subtilis , Pseudomonas pyocyanea , and Penicillium notatum . |