Example sentences of "be [verb] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 4 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Where the countryside is more hospitable , this can be left to a thousand feet or so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |