Example sentences of "devoted to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , inter-war English studies was devoted to professional scholarship , research , and publishing rather than a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 2 | The many enchanting designs from that period are almost wholly devoted to external appearance , to cottages as features in the landscape . |
| 3 | The first of these is devoted to systematic consideration of what modernism is . |
| 4 | The ground floor of the two storey building is principally devoted to new training facilities while the first floor provides spacious and airy office space for the 1OO staff . |
| 5 | ‘ Gay , temperamental and devoted to private enterprise . ’ |
| 6 | In 1989–90 45 per cent of NAO direct costs were devoted to financial audit and 53 per cent to VFM audit work . |
| 7 | The department offers a wide variety of degrees : honours in Fine Art in which half the student 's time is devoted to practical art ; honours in the History of Art which studies the subject as an academic discipline like English Literature or History , involving no practical work but stressing the relationship between the study of the arts and their practice ; and a variety of joint degrees such as those with French or Italian . |
| 8 | In terms of budgetary expenditure , the EC is an organisation which is principally devoted to agricultural protectionism . |
| 9 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 10 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |
| 11 | Terling ( pronounced Tarling ) was an almost wholly agricultural parish , anciently enclosed , and for the most part devoted to mixed farming , with some emphasis on wheat and dairying . |
| 12 | Most of this book is devoted to paradigmatic sense relations ( lexical semanticists , in general , have found them a richer vein to mine than relations of the syntagmatic variety ) . |
| 13 | The fourth year is devoted to Environmental Chemistry . |
| 14 | Thus , although material tailored to specific professional roles was delivered in only 16 per cent of courses , it accounted for well over a quarter of all the teacher-days devoted to primary INSET , a proportion of time exactly equal to that spent on all individual areas of the curriculum together . |
| 15 | Home-school links , the promotion of which was originally considered important enough to make it one of the four original aims of PNP , accounted for only one teacher-day in every hundred devoted to primary INSET . |
| 16 | This compares with a total of 341000 beds within the NHS , of which 77000 are devoted to mental illness . |
| 17 | Most important of all was the fact that he was devoted to imperial service ; thus his role as chancellor and Barbarossa 's role as emperor were seldom to come into conflict . |
| 18 | For some centuries now an , ‘ epicure ’ has been someone overly devoted to sensual pleasure and luxury . |
| 19 | The Treasury was still unable to pay and supply the army adequately — despite the fact that over half the budget was devoted to military expenditure even in peacetime . |
| 20 | One such offer was from a theme park in Dogpatch , Arkansas , which is devoted to cast-off metal monuments . |
| 21 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 22 | Ludicrous though the description might sound in print , for an organisation that had never numbered more than sixty followers and had rarely mustered more than twenty , it was strictly accurate and hardly to be dismissed by a regime uniquely devoted to National Socialism . |
| 23 | A brainstorming session is devoted to creative thought . |
| 24 | The second half of the programme was devoted to parliamentary news in the various regions , with interviews with local MPs and other politicians . |
| 25 | The second half of the morning was devoted to first-aid training . |
| 26 | In traditional public finance texts , a considerable proportion of chapters are devoted to fiscal policy in a macro context . |
| 27 | Promoted nationally by ministerial circular in 1955 , approved belts now cover nearly 11 per cent of England , an area similar to that devoted to urban development , and greater than is covered by either National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 28 | It is not that Ukraine 's rulers are devoted to nuclear status . |
| 29 | She runs ISM , business and training consultants to the beauty and hairdressing industry , and many of her courses are devoted to improving customer care . |
| 30 | We have had our ups and downs , but I have a very great regard for the organization and great affection for the head of the Accident Investigation and prevention Section , Olof Fritsch , who , notwithstanding all the times I twisted his tail , remains for me one of the great professionals totally devoted to improving safety in the air , and a true friend . |