Example sentences of "be [verb] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children who come to this school are limited to a Fine Arts base , and possibly Graphics . |
| 2 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 3 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 4 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 5 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 6 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 7 | Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface . |
| 8 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
| 9 | After his or her 18th birthday , the young person would be transferred to a young offenders ' institution before moving to an adult prison aged 21 . |
| 10 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 11 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 12 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 13 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 14 | The company claims that the time taken to generate and integrate the management of , for example , a network hub can be cut to a few hours . |
| 15 | Where the countryside is more hospitable , this can be left to a thousand feet or so . |
| 16 | He need not be taken to a designated police station if it is not anticipated he will be detained for more than six hours or where the arresting officer is without help . |
| 17 | In theory civil service recruits were supposed to pass an examination in law and a first language test and then be attached to a senior police magistrate for six months . |
| 18 | When the name of a vulnerable elderly person has been passed to a social services department , that person becomes at least temporarily a client . |
| 19 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 20 | Visit the area several times and you will find yourself being attracted to a few sites in particular : these are the places where you can meet the earth spirit . |
| 21 | More than 200 residents were evacuated to a nearby police station . |
| 22 | Syndicated euro-credits also enable banks to spread or diversify their risks by having a wide loan portfolio rather than being over-committed to a few customers . |
| 23 | TWO men who used an imitation firearm to carry out a robbery were sent to a young offenders centre at Belfast Crown Court yesterday . |
| 24 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 25 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 26 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
| 27 | In these authorities the function of ‘ filling in ’ important works not ordered by the areas is given to a central resources unit , a team of professional librarians headed by the bibliographical services officer , with authority-wide responsibility for selecting published works of any importance . |
| 28 | If the candidate makes the grade in the Hawk , where he learns to handle fast jets and basic skills in bombing and dogfighting , he is posted to a Tactical Weapons Unit where these skills are honed . |
| 29 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Notors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |
| 30 | A second KSR1 is going to a General Motors Corp lab in Detroit for development and conversion of systems management tools . |