Example sentences of "[Wh pn] were [adv] committed " in BNC.

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1 Over a six-year period the board membership moved from a minority of three people who supported the change to a ‘ critical mass ’ of individuals who were firmly committed to the change and concerned only about how to implement it .
2 Controversy had two major advantages for the Church : considerable free publicity , and such a negative public image that only those who were strongly committed would join .
3 It was precisely the power of Jacobitism as a negative ideal which explains the strength of the Jacobite challenge at the time of the Hanoverian succession , but also its ultimate failure , since there were few people who were really committed to the positive alternative which the Stuarts represented .
4 The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent .
5 Perhaps of greater importance than those who were attracted to fascism for irrational or emotive reasons were those who were ideologically committed to the form of radicalism which BUF doctrine and propaganda promulgated .
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