Example sentences of "three [noun pl] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 2 | During the past two or three generations there have been , there has been this , this idea of God 's favour being expressed in blessing . |
| 3 | To what extent do the differences between these three patterns still make educational sense ? |
| 4 | And he may be marching into a trap with a right hand that needed surgery on it three fights ago to enable him to continue in boxing . |
| 5 | The use of three strategies also proved to be popular , followed by one , and finally by four or more strategies . |
| 6 | ‘ Two of the three experts definitely say in the reports that clenbuterol is not a steroid , ’ the source , who did not want to be identified , said . |
| 7 | These three groups also behaved differently at the onset of the 1984 dispute . |
| 8 | Among the various groups studied , the differentiation between patients with hypertrophic gastropathy , Zollinger-Ellison syndrome , and those receiving omeprazole treatment for reflux oesophagitis is sometimes hard to make , because all these three groups often have , in addition to a high serum pepsinogen A value , dyspeptic complaints and hypergastrinaemia . |
| 9 | The archaeological records of man show these three activities normally co-existing ( Lee and DeVore , 1964 ) . |
| 10 | Although it is widely agreed that successful innovations need to couple R&D , manufacturing , and marketing activities to ensure that new products can be manufactured at reasonable cost and are attractive to consumers , it is not completely obvious that this means that all three activities always need to be conducted under the same roof . |
| 11 | Manufacturers of the three fungicides voluntarily instructed US farmers in October to stop using them on 70 out of 83 approved crops . |
| 12 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 13 | She said she ‘ hollered ’ at it three times not to pull her in the water . |
| 14 | Our finding that patients with healed duodenal ulcers have disordered patterns of antroduodenal motility , which could promote sequestration of acid within the bulb , provides indirect support for this hypothesis , as do preliminary reports that cisapride 10 mg three times daily reduces 24 h intraduodenal acidity in healthy volunteers without affecting gastric pH . |
| 15 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 16 | Merseyside Fire Brigade was expecting to receive three times more call outs than normal tonight . |
| 17 | yeah , creepy little sod and have Dave , Dave show me three times how to do a five bar gate |
| 18 | Now , plays in that stage were the things that were performed two or three times then forgotten , here is Johnson saying , no , I 'm gon na write down all my plays , I 'm gon na publish them , you 're gon na read them you 're gon na read them as if they were learned things . |
| 19 | Chaired by Michael Julien , it meets not less than three times annually to review the adequacy of the Group 's systems of internal control including those concerning the Group 's pension arrangements , the scope and findings of the external and internal auditors ' work , the half and full year financial statements prior to their submission to the Board , and the application of the Group 's accounting policies and any changes to financial reporting requirements . |
| 20 | The fifteen Calders join seven in the museum 's permanent collection , including three mobiles previously given by the Horwiches . |
| 21 | Simpson , another big-money signing from Oxford , split the defence for Gabbiadini to take on Munday , and cross low , where the ball went in off one of three defenders supposedly guarding the near post . |
| 22 | One rat might be taught to run , and then taught three hours later to stand still ; another rat might be taught to stay still about six hours after it was taught to run . |
| 23 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 24 | Some are best in the evening , some around midnight , some for two or three hours following dawn , and others at various times during the day . |
| 25 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 26 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 27 | In all three cases there has been a marked increase in the proportion who favour the more liberal status quo . |
| 28 | The same player added another three points three minutes later to leave Banbridge leading 6–0 . |
| 29 | The tea was made according to the instruction given by the Tea Council in London — brewing the tea bag for three minutes then squeezing it . |
| 30 | Three Burgundians therefore met three Scots in a tournament at Stirling presided over by James II , which began with all the appropriate pomp and ceremony , and then acquired all the merits of a punch-up , which the Burgundians duly won three-nil . |