Example sentences of "committed to the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newly created Department of Cell Biology is committed to the discovery of novel anti-tumour chemotherapeutic agents targeted against proteins encoded by oncogenes . |
| 2 | Mindanao Alliance ( established in 1978 , committed to the protection of civil rights and the economic development of Mindanao , Homobono Adaza l. ; Nacionalista Party ( originally established in 1907 , resurrected in 1988 by Aquino 's opponents , Salvador Laurel pres. , Juan Ponce Enrile sec. gen . ) ; |
| 3 | Nevertheless , ‘ the government is firmly committed to the protection of the environment ’ though ‘ this need not be incompatible with ensuring that adequate supplies of opencast are produced ’ . |
| 4 | This contrasts with ICI 's claim that it is " firmly committed to the protection of the environment , and fully supports the Montreal Protocol [ on the protection of the ozone layer — see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 5 | With our allies , this government is committed to the elimination of intermediate-range missiles on both sides . |
| 6 | Management appeared to regret this , to some extent at least because they themselves were master craftsmen and committed to the notion of craft skill . |
| 7 | And as we have already noted , many male workers , especially in " skilled " occupations , were committed to the notion of a male " family wage " high enough to keep wife and children . |
| 8 | But the government is committed to the notion of care by the community and wants families to take on greater responsibilities . |
| 9 | The group has invested heavily in building up its Mercury business in the UK and is also committed to the expansion of its PCN business but the disposal of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent of Hong Kong Telecom will allay concerns about the group 's funding requirements . |
| 10 | So in allocating loans , banks are especially committed to the expansion of their more important customers and preferential terms are offered through lower interest rates or more flexible borrowing limits . |
| 11 | The city is committed to the advancement of modern management systems and performance measurement . |
| 12 | The wife , dependent on her husband 's increasing earnings , is committed to the work of home-making for him and their children . |
| 13 | In October last year the Muslim Judicial Council received a letter from Mandela calling it ‘ one of South Africa 's most powerful organizations committed to the winning of human rights for all our peoples ’ . |
| 14 | In practice , these provisions will be very difficult to apply but the preamble to the EC Directive may give some assistance as it talks about the European Community being fully committed to the promotion of international standardization . |
| 15 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 16 | Within this discourse nation and people converged under the natural leadership of a Conservative Party which appointed itself as guardian , committed to the defence of their integrity against attack from hostile or alien forces . |
| 17 | The Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ) had been formed in November 1944 as a new reformist party , but one committed to the defence of the individual in society . |
| 18 | Drawing together the two strands of our research proposal , we would hypothesise that the process of accommodation to changes in the social construction of marriage and marriage problems which forced the NMGC to reassess its goals , also involved a shift from a movement broadly committed to the defence of the institution of marriage to an increasingly specialised agency , treating marital problems as the products of new-type privatised marital relationships . |
| 19 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 20 | However , it must be stressed that the High Anglicans reserved their contempt for the Whig bishops ; they recognised that there were some sound bishops ( though not as many as they would like ) , and they remained committed to the defence of the institution of episcopacy . |
| 21 | The Government is committed to the philosophy of privatisation , and the policy grinds relentlessly on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nizan was evidently committed to the idea of literature as a high moral adventure played out between reader and writer . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |