Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
2 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
3 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
4 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
5 | Fourth , a study in the Brighton Health Authority area ( Levy 1985 ) investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during 1984 , producing an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the 15–35-year-old population . |
6 | Fifth , an interim report of the Avon Drug Abuse Monitoring Project ( Gay et al .1985 ) , which investigated problem drug users known to a dozen agencies during the one-year period ending March 1985 , reported an estimated annual prevalence rate of 0.5 known opioid users per 1,000 of the total Bristol population . |
7 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
8 | Eventually I was asked if my reference number related to a low-level police helicopter flight planned in Wales . |
9 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |