Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision followed strong reactions by the US administration and the UN to an incident earlier in the day , when Iraq troops had fired shots in the air allegedly to deny UN inspectors access to a nuclear weapons site , which was itself the culmination of a series of such refusals by Iraq . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 4 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 5 | For ten weeks in the summer , Vorarlberg also offers the largest programme of children 's event in Europe ; the little town of Bludenz plays host to a huge Children 's Chocolate Festival , and 1000kg of Suchard chocolate is donated for the occasion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 9 | All this disruption coincides with preparations to move to a new offices early next month , when all editing and layout will be done on computers . |