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

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1 At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed .
2 The new style review consisted of three components :
3 However , two millworkers ' cottages , that formerly consisted of three storeys , each of a single room , stand close by , having been converted in the late '50s .
4 Sparsely furnished in keeping with the austere , scholarly traditions of the Annamese mandarinate , it was dominated by the family 's ancestral altar , which consisted of three tables of different heights lacquered in red and gold .
5 It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side .
6 The fourth vehicle , the heavy stores van , consisted of three compartments , a small riding compartment for the guard , a large compartment for hardwood packing and caboose , with the guard 's lookout extension at the extreme end of the van .
7 The Korean peninsula consisted of three kingdoms , the smallest of which was called Silla .
8 the work , a large photographic installation sited in the gallery space , consisted of three segments : a series of photographs and text , a publicly sited work placed in the special Care Baby Unit in Birchill Hospital and a live art work performed in the gallery .
9 The ensuing sample , therefore , consisted of three molars , one incisor and some unidentifiable pieces of bone , which is what would have been produced by screening .
10 After the defeat of the EDC the British approach to Europe during the remainder of the 1950s consisted of three phases : WEU , the so-called ‘ Grand Design ’ , and the European Free Trade Association .
11 The Thaxted tradition which he established consisted of three features : firstly , a very thoroughgoing Christian socialism ; secondly , a marked attention to music and all that went with it ; and thirdly , a liturgiological care for distinctively English medieval antecedents .
12 The manometric assembly consisted of three polyvinyl tubes bounded together in such a way that the 0.8 mm side hole was 5 cm apart from each other ( Arndorfer Medical Specialties , Milwaukee , USA ) .
13 The causal sequences consisted of three events : a puppet dropped a marble down one runway , then Jack jumped , and then another puppet dropped a marble down the other runway .
14 Switzerland , on the other hand , consisted of three nations .
15 For example , there were three guides and 15 clients on the trip , but Hinkes does not tell us that the summit party consisted of three guides … plus one client .
16 The CVCP indignantly pointed out that all universities were vocational and responsive , and that ‘ higher education ’ consisted of three parts , not two , the third being the colleges of education .
17 She thought of three couples , friends , who had managed to get to Israel after a bitter struggle .
18 According to Beamish , the IFL knew of three remedies to the Jewish question : to kill them , sterilize them or segregate them .
19 Reports spoke of three deaths , the burning of four barracks and the theft of cash and vehicles .
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