Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In any case , many of its members in the late 18th century , though not yet necessarily committed to a full-blooded doctrine of ‘ laissez-faire ’ , were moving towards a political philosophy involving less , not more , government intervention in everyday affairs , leaving the ‘ natural ’ market forces of supply and demand to regulate the economy as best they may . |
| 32 | Indeed the public seem to expect those committed to a particular service to extol its virtues . |
| 33 | They were fairly set in their ways , committed to a particular life style , and anxious to climb the promotional ladder . |
| 34 | Lansdowne and Law could only accede with as good a grace as they could muster ; the party was therefore committed to a full policy of imperial preference , but food taxes would be excluded unless approved by a second general election . |
| 35 | However , we are committed to a full examination of all the issues and to a round of producer meetings later this year , ’ he said . |
| 36 | It is currently committed to a multi-million pound improvement programme involving new plant and upgrading existing facilities . |
| 37 | At the same time , he remained committed to a popular cinema , a cinema of the slums and the villages . |
| 38 | ‘ We are now committed to a permanent merry-go-round for the European Parliament at a huge cost in terms of cash and efficiency , ’ said Mr Peter Price , Euro MP for London South-East . |
| 39 | In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ? |
| 40 | While it would be misleading to present the members of the Annales school as a wholly homogeneous group committed to a single methodology , they nevertheless hold in common a number of views about the study of the past . |
| 41 | Goal congruence : employee and organization share the same goals ( e.g. a football team , a religious society ) ; the reward is an emotional wellbeing from believing in or being committed to a superordinate goal . |
| 42 | I have had the opportunity of discussing that with President Bush on a number of occasions , and he is as committed to a speedy conclusion of the Uruguay round as we are . |
| 43 | Personally I am strongly committed to a primitive Christianity , but I know that I can not return to the total world-view of the primitive church . |
| 44 | Nevertheless we are committed to a meritocratic society . |
| 45 | The identity of the other treaty members is not determinative when a State is deciding whether to become committed to a multilateral treaty regime . |
| 46 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 47 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport . |
| 48 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport . |
| 49 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport and this , as I mentioned , must ultimately benefit the majority of NFC employees . |
| 50 | Because I recognise you will have concerns I am committed to a vigorous programme of communication both at corporate and at local level . |
| 51 | The new colonial minister , E.M.J.A. Sassen , was committed to a tough line . |
| 52 | The other kind would be academics who are committed to a tough professionalism on the American model , who believe that knowledge advances and becomes obsolete , that theory is essential , and that nothing of interest can be said about literature outside an institutional framework . |
| 53 | Those Nonjurors who remained committed to a Jacobite restoration were often at odds with St Germain , being both anti-French and anti-Catholic . |
| 54 | Ordered , That the Bill be committed to a Select Committee of seven Members , four to be nominated by the House and three by the Committee of Selection . |
| 55 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 56 | Erm the the Kuomintang , make no mistake about it , were committed to a national revolution erm an and therefore they were revolutionary , they were , they were claiming to be as revolutionary as the communists . |
| 57 | Which is — ’ his voice deepened to a husky growl ‘ — pleasure . |
| 58 | Exploration well 41/24–3 was drilled to a total depth of 4,834 feet by the Penrod 92 jack-up rig . |
| 59 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 60 | To assess whether the failure of Myc or Max alone to transactivate was due to an inability to bind DNA , we tested their function when fused to a heterologous transactivation domain ( VP16 ; Fig. 2 b ) . |