Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the idea of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Support for a fixed Channel link soon emerged as a prime candidate for assistance although the British and French governments remained committed to the idea of a privately financed tunnel . |
| 2 | This can be particularly true with ageing counsellees , who enjoy the company offered to them through counselling , and who perhaps are not committed to the idea of change ‘ at their age ’ . |
| 3 | A number of voluntary associations have become committed to the idea of ‘ empowering ’ parents to speak for and represent themselves , and see their role as providing training , support and an expert voice as and when required . |
| 4 | The repetitiveness of such poems is an obstacle to critics committed to the idea of an ever-developing narrative , and they are not often taken seriously . |
| 5 | With the rise of the fascist menace , the bourgeois educational system was no longer perceived as the site of idealistic mystification , but rather as the site of a political struggle ; a political struggle in which the vast majority of the teaching profession , committed to the idea of cultural enlightenment , were refusing to be silenced , gagged by a bourgeois state progressively more dominated by fascist ideas at a time of deepening political crisis . |
| 6 | Nizan was evidently committed to the idea of literature as a high moral adventure played out between reader and writer . |
| 7 | They have long been committed to the idea of such a conference for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict ; they are now committed to the idea of such a conference for negotiating a Gulf peace ; there is no obvious way to keep the two ideas apart . |
| 8 | They have long been committed to the idea of such a conference for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict ; they are now committed to the idea of such a conference for negotiating a Gulf peace ; there is no obvious way to keep the two ideas apart . |
| 9 | As we are committed to the idea of providing general managers with a progression of learning opportunities , we have designed our programmes to match these needs . |
| 10 | Neither the erm of the two other major parties are , but both the Socialists and erm President erm ex-President Giscard 's party erm were committed to the idea of European integration . |
| 11 | Many young people are now attracted to the idea of producing a large part of their own food . |
| 12 | I am attracted to the idea of a printed Directory of Committees in a number of parts : |
| 13 | Scientists examining alternative approaches are attracted to the idea of using molecules that are chemicals designed to assemble themselves into a film . |
| 14 | Thirdly , Franco and advisers such as his brother-in-law , Ramón Serrano Suñer , looking ahead to a post-war Spain and impressed by Italian and German precedents , were becoming increasingly attracted to the idea of a single-party and perhaps even totalitarian state . |
| 15 | Stork was attracted to the idea of headhunting , but less to the idea of working for GKR , so he decided to set up on his own , working at both headhunting and marketing consulting . |
| 16 | Meanwhile research revealed that 80% of SMEs already used suitable PCs , and over 50% were strongly attracted to the idea of a ‘ single source ’ through which a variety of services could be accessed . |
| 17 | It is also possible that more women were attracted to the idea of site-specific work . |
| 18 | By 1937 , in the face of the rapid spread of fascism , many who were active in politics began to be attracted to the idea of such a combination . |
| 19 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 20 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 21 | However , reports of a more conciliatory stance appeared to be a confirmed after the Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was quoted in the official daily al Thawrah on Oct. 5 as saying that Iraq had not " objected to the idea of selling oil to meet the necessary humanitarian and civilian needs and has not objected to the Security Council 's resolution to deduct a high percentage " of " the so-called reparations fund and UN costs " . |
| 22 | Leeds has asked that migration continue to be accommodated in Craven , Harrogate and er Hambleton but we 've objected to the idea of a new settlement in Selby and our main concern is with major employment focused in the Leeds York corridor , and that 's the substance of our objection . |
| 23 | When faced with this problem many authors have turned to the idea of ‘ local political cultures ’ , and have sought to explain political variation by reference to the existence of such ‘ cultures ’ ( Butler and Stokes , 1974 ; Johnston , 1986a ) . |
| 24 | It will be dealt with in a later chapter , when it can be related to the idea of a ‘ Created God ’ , which it is the primary purpose of this book to put forward . |
| 25 | Moreover , as Steven Lukes has persuasively argued , the idea of autonomy ( of which conscientious reflection is a crucial component ) is also intimately related to the idea of equal respect for persons . |
| 26 | Themes very closely related to the idea of ‘ locality ’ have been employed to bring us up to an account of region . |
| 27 | In this respect it can be related to the idea of a well-formed substring table which records all the legal subparts of a sequence of symbols . |
| 28 | Although arbitrary , this size limit can be related to the idea of morphological capacity since craters below this size are normally a constructional component of strato-volcanoes , whereas those above are nearly always formed by subsidence and collapse following catastrophic eruptions . |
| 29 | Well , they were professionals as far as I know , it was n't a matter there of professionals beating amateurs. erm As for the distinction between the amateur and the professional , no , I think , I think that we 've got stuck with this amateur business , partly because it 's related to the idea of the English gentleman , which is only slowly fading . |
| 30 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |