Example sentences of "three [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Three fabulous styles created with the L'Anza range of products .
2 Of the three broad proposals considered , this would encourage women to work on the market .
3 Though he has not released a record in five years , his success in the 1980s was astronomical : his three solo albums sold more than 75m copies altogether , his two home-videos 1m each .
4 The Eleanor Cross , at the edge of the park on London Road , is one of only three surviving crosses erected by Edward I to mark the route of Queen Eleanor 's funeral cortege in 1290 .
5 Hardness testing and micrograph evidence showed that all three surviving bolts suffered from gross surface and sub-surface decarburisation , reducing both the static and fatigue strength of the bolts to go around fifty per cent .
6 Twenty cities within the European Community ( EC ) have joined forces in three EC-sponsored projects aimed at improving public transport and the urban environment , in particular at persuading people to abandon their cars and use buses instead .
7 Three arched windows printed themselves in black and white on my retinas , the relics flared under a sizzling discharge between sky and turret .
8 A gang of three armed raiders threatened to cut two babies ' throats if a family did n't hand over jewellery .
9 This poses the worrying possibility that when the big three Allied leaders got together , a dying depressive , an alcoholic manic depressive ( Churchill , as diagnosed by one prominent psychiatrist ) and a murderous sociopath ( Stalin , as diagnosed by almost everyone ) were getting together to plot the downfall of a genocidal maniac .
10 Three specific projects described in detail exemplify the ways in which writing in role can be encouraged .
11 He then traces four traditions on sources of curriculum content , which are similar to the three conflicting claims recognised by the Munn Report , namely : the needs of learners ; demands of society and social realities ; clarification of values for democratic life ; structure of disciplines .
12 From an initial population of 472 children , 228 satisfied the five criteria at each of three preoperative assessments separated by intervals of six weeks .
13 The monarch ( currently Prince Rainier III ) , as head of state , nominates the Minister of State from a list of three French diplomats submitted by the French government .
14 The Prince , as head of state , nominates the Minister of State from a list of three French diplomats submitted by the French government .
15 The three old men seated on chairs in the dark shop were looking at her as though she were an amusing variation on their usual routine of watching the shopping .
16 British consul David Hook was in Waco liaising with the authorities and checking on the health of the three British children released earlier and now recovering in the care of the local child protection agency .
17 By the time that he felt ready to bring Holly before him , he had spent three clear days shut in that office with the door closed to all inquiries .
18 In it , there are three wooden blocks labelled A , B and C , and a table .
19 It should be emphasised that when acid was applied directly to the duodenal mucosa without prior irritation , there was no difference in mucosal resistance in the three dietary groups tested in our study .
20 The Nymphaeum , a glass-paste mosaic bordered with shells , and the even more spectacular Room ( oecus ) with Garden Paintings — three sizeable walls covered with an elaborate fresco of birds and plants , with additional figurative panels and decorative heads .
21 As the three chartered Institutes found when they visited registered members , the single most pervasive problem among ACCA firms was the quality of recording audit work .
22 The sound quality on all three tapes is appaling ; only two of the three accompanying booklets arrived and one of these , promising guitar secrets , is comprised almost totally of quotes taken from various magazines , including yours .
23 A charming modern three star hotel situated close to the main museums , the Rijksmuseum , Van Gogh and Stedelijk , and the Concert Hall .
24 It 's a three star hotel patronised by many different nationalities .
25 In secreting intestine ( Fig 2 ) all the solutions reversed net secretion to net absorption but all three hypotonic ORS promoted more water absorption than WHO-ORS and UK-ORS ( p<0.005 ) .
26 On Fridays December 4 , 11 and 18 , there will be a series of three free lectures entitled ‘ Beardsley to Comberg : British Drawing and Watercolours ’ .
27 Three further cases followed in 1890 .
28 Three further products followed — Asteroid , The Wizard and the Princess and Time Zone , with the same type of game system and absolutely NO animation .
29 Of these , one 66 year old man died from a myocardial infarction and three further patients stopped because of ill health or fraility , or both , unrelated to gall stone disease or trial treatment .
30 Three further versions known in sixteenth-century copies from Germany combine the three major elements of the tale : the Second Flood , the kissing of the arse ( in all cases the male lover 's arse , not the woman 's ) and the retaliatory branding .
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