Example sentences of "be devoted to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part played by the Bolshevik party has remained hallowed ground , but immense energy has been devoted to substantiating the claims made on its behalf , to tracing its growing influence across the country , and there has even been somewhat more critical discussion of divisions within it . |
| 2 | Truthfulness and openness are particularly difficult aims to have in a British organization where so much of our education and background has been devoted to concealing feelings and to suffering heroically without protest . |
| 3 | This reflects badly on those involved with diabetic care because it suggests that not enough attention has been devoted to discouraging this atherogenic activity in an atheroma-prone group . |
| 4 | Never before has so much technology been devoted to getting things wrong with such instantaneous precision . |
| 5 | In a market where the high street banks ' advertising has for years been devoted to trying to humanize an essentially depressing sub-retail experience , the campaign was , to say the least , refreshingly different . |
| 6 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 7 | Much of a seven page appendix to the Head 's progress report on his Five Year Plan 1974 to 1979 had been devoted to commenting on these earlier departmental reviews . |
| 8 | If as much effort had been devoted to providing good levels of insulation as went into other recent advances in building practice , we would all now be living in highly energy-efficient homes , and paying much smaller heating bills . |
| 9 | So far , most of the effort has been devoted to unifying the first three categories of physical interactions , the strong and weak nuclear forces and electromagnetism . |
| 10 | Most effort in promoting cooperatives as a means of increasing small farmers ' market power has been devoted to organising marketing and the provision of services . |
| 11 | Over the past year so much time and energy has been devoted to considering the implications of the new audit regulatory regime that investment business has been given scant attention by commentators and the profession alike . |
| 12 | Mr Paul Whelan , the party 's organisation officer , claims 10 times as much is spent chasing each expatriate vote as has been devoted to encouraging each unregistered adult living in Britain to claim theirs . |
| 13 | Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training . |
| 14 | His entire premiership until now has been devoted to winning the election . |
| 15 | Some of her time has also been devoted to caring for Michael , who was badly scalded in infancy . |
| 16 | Although a lot of research has been devoted to understanding negative emotions such as anxiety or depression , very little time has been spent on finding out what makes people happy . |
| 17 | Police Expenditure on the police has risen by 55% since 1978–1979 Insufficient effort , though , has been devoted to making sure policemen are on the beat . |
| 18 | This , for a man whose entire working life had been devoted to making it big in the movies , came as a depressing , frustrating fact as he surveyed his position that year . |
| 19 | In recent years considerable effort has been devoted to making the computerized information system more ‘ user friendly ’ , that is , simpler to use in order to carry out efficient information retrieval . |
| 20 | Many years of research in many places have been devoted to working out the best ways of using surgery , radiation , and drugs to treat each kind of solid tumour and of using radiation and drugs for those disseminated cancers , such as the leukaemias , in which no central growth can be removed . |
| 21 | Much criminological time has been devoted to explaining which route is taken and why . |
| 22 | Considerable effort by senior management needs to be devoted to refining information so that it is related to local units , uses easily understood concepts and yardsticks , has illustrations and examples , is consistent and is a careful balance between mentioning failures and successes . |
| 23 | Subsequent research will then be devoted to determining its range of applicability and subjecting it to still further tests . |
| 24 | That is , the socio-economic status of one 's childhood does affect the degree to which goals will be compromised or energy will be devoted to achieving a particular goal . |
| 25 | Above all , they have emphasised the need for higher expectations from society as a whole about what disabled people can achieve , and have argued for the necessary resources to be devoted to helping them achieve them . |
| 26 | The two rocks are different in chemical composition , and this difference manifests itself in a number of intriguing ways ; ways which a fair part of this book will be devoted to exploring . |
| 27 | It is perfectly possible to imagine that memories are coded for negatively , by reducing the level of some substance or process , although in practice nearly all research seems to be devoted to trying to identify increases . |
| 28 | Compensating this apparent service cut for mentally ill patients was the fact that most of the capital to be set aside for the service developments would be devoted to building the replacement facilities in the community for the two psychiatric hospitals to close . |
| 29 | This is an aspect of pastoral development in which small groups meet together principally for Bible study but , in many cases , they may be devoted to promoting other activities as well , such as literacy classes or agricultural cooperatives . |
| 30 | Apple Computer Inc is teaming up with trading house Uchida Yoko Co Ltd to expand its business with Japanese schools , Reuter reports from Tokyo : Uchida , which specialises in office equipment and school supplies , aims to sell 3,000 Macintosh personal computers to schools in the year from July , taking advantage of the fact that in Japan 's supplementary budget unveiled in April , the government plans to increase spending on computers for schools and other public bodies — it is expected that $1,800m will be devoted to buying over 300,000 machines for schools by 1996 , with NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd , the latter with its FM Towns multimedia box seen as the main beneficiaries . |