Example sentences of "devoted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author spent much of his life as a bachelor Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford ; his cloistered life was devoted to writing , notably on classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance . |
| 2 | A partial and passionate critic also writing in the middle of the nineteenth century was John Ruskin , as devoted to Turner as Baudelaire was to Delacroix . |
| 3 | A final chapter is devoted to four case studies : Michael Erhart of Ulm , Tilmann Riemenschneider of Wurzburg , Veit Stoss of Nuremberg , and Hans Leinberger of Landshut . |
| 4 | But now I want to win and win and win. , Salim , too , wants to win , and his affair with Yvette is a victory : All my energy and mind were devoted to that new end of winning the person . ’ |
| 5 | Not all the clergy and all the religious orders have been actively engaged in the pursuit of this ideal , but one or two orders have been ; for example , the Christian Brothers are devoted to the ideals of a Christian and catholic education , and supporters of the concept of a nation dedicated to God and at the same time distinctly Irish . |
| 6 | More than two thirds of that colossal amount was devoted to lager , which is still a minority brand in Britain . |
| 7 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 8 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 9 | Another historical line saw its last BR train on 26 September 1983 when the Cornish Wenford Bridge line was officially closed , its latter role being entirely devoted to the china clay traffic . |
| 10 | This was the assessment of RDS by Johnny Beerling , controller of BBC Radio 1 and chairman of the EBU Programme Experts Group in an introduction to a special issue of the EBU Review — Technical devoted to radio data system ( RDS ) . |
| 11 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 12 | In alternate weeks the auction is wholly devoted to domestic buyers or to foreign buyers . |
| 13 | His spare time was devoted to the study of the castle , in which he was ably assisted by Clifford Perks , his former collaborator on several papers , and later by Mark Cheshire , a former pupil . |
| 14 | A pupil of Gustav Holst at St Paul 's Girls School , Ramsey was devoted to music and as a flautist she played in the Cumberland Symphony Orchestra when she went to live in Cumbria . |
| 15 | UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great . |
| 16 | True , in a first half devoted to the song repertory she allowed herself a Wolf group which included Mein Liebster ist so Klein and Ich hab' in Penna . |
| 17 | By the time he left in 1931 it was clear to him that there was a need for the Dutch to establish trading and cultural links not only with Saudi Arabia but with the Yemen and Hadhramaut , and most of his subsequent career in Arabia was devoted to this end . |
| 18 | The collection is devoted to books on Greece , Turkey , Egypt and the Levant ; there are further sales today and tomorrow . |
| 19 | Yesterday 's newspaper columns on the election were devoted to Mr Dinkins ' promises to defend Jewish interests in the same way that Mayor Ed Koch did for the past 12 years . |
| 20 | The problem is that so little of police time is devoted to it . |
| 21 | In another study , however , the time given to ‘ community contact ’ by community constables in one area each of Surrey and inner London was estimated at 45 per cent , compared to 4 per cent for regular officers , although even here more time was devoted to dealing with offences than community relations ( Fielding et al . |
| 22 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 23 | Most of this text is devoted to considering the nature of those differences and how the international marketing manager can overcome them . |
| 24 | Most of the Party 's agitational work was devoted to the very small number of local kolkhozy , as if , like Catherine the Great , it sought to derive comfort from over-concentrating on its equivalents of Potemkin 's model villages . |
| 25 | The Cheka people are devoted to principle … [ they have an ] all-pervading good humour , terseness of speech , a dislike of ready-made formulae . |
| 26 | Subsequent chapters are devoted to mastering various techniques and manoeuvres . |
| 27 | He seemed devoted to his little sister ’ . |
| 28 | A lively radio station has a variety of on-air personalities , and not all of them will be as devoted to music as others . |
| 29 | Over time the rhetoric of government spokesmen has changed to boasting of how much more manpower ( doctors and nurses ) and money is devoted to the NHS , compared to 1979 . |
| 30 | But in his belief that economic efficiency must if necessary take priority over social justice , Keynes lacked the left-Liberal vision of a new moral order in society , More than half of Dr Clarke 's book is devoted to the debate over economic policy between 1928 and 1930 . |