Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 6 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 7 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 8 | More than 200 residents were evacuated to a nearby police station . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 12 | Eventually I was asked if my reference number related to a low-level police helicopter flight planned in Wales . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | All finalists will be invited to a spectacular winners ' reception in London in September . |
| 19 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Exploring how nineteen carers , known to a social services support group , experienced the caring relationship , Ungerson ( 1987 , p. 15 ) focused on : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
| 25 | For since the east coast main-coast line was electrified the police have spoken to a million children about the dangers of trespassing . |
| 26 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 29 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 30 | 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 . |