Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.

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31 The programme thus expresses the reality that we are citizens of one world and are members of a world association committed to international solidarity and regional diversity .
32 For a government committed to widening home-ownership , it is an embarrassment ; for a family that is evicted , it is a personal tragedy .
33 We are committed to widening opportunities without compromising academic standards .
34 The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need .
35 In addition , though the party offered its electorate little it was committed to moral ideas and personal liberation to such an extent that it excited passionate enthusiasms .
36 Mrs Thatcher will also be assured that there will be no unilateral US cuts of its forces committed to Western Europe , that all will be done in consultations with Nato , and that there will be no grandiose new proposal for further US and Soviet troop cuts until the current Conventional Forces in Europe talks in Vienna are complete .
37 We are firmly committed to equal treatment for men and women in pensions .
38 We are an equal opportunities employer and are fully committed to Equal Opportunity policies .
39 The Health and Safety Executive is an equal opportunities employer and is formally committed to equal opportunities .
40 ‘ The CBI is firmly committed to equal opportunities in the workplace and is taking the message to the smaller firms , where the majority of new jobs will be created , ’ added Mr Davies .
41 Whilst the record companies sat on their hands , nervous of another quadraphonic-style fiasco , Karajan announced after seeing the new technology as a working prototype that he would make no new recordings and sign no new contracts with any company that was not committed to digital recording and the earliest possible launch of the compact disc .
42 On the one hand , Pilkington was represented as a company committed to long term research and development , whereas BTR was seen as a company interested in quick profits , increasing efficiency by rationalisation ( and job losses ) and asset stripping .
43 A society frankly committed to legal pragmatism would be different from a self-consciously conventionalist society .
44 All that was needed was a little encouragement , a sign that the employer was committed to good employment policies and practices for people with disabilities .
45 Following mainstream psychology 's prescriptions , it presents itself as committed to good methodology .
46 The Social Services department is committed to good discharge planning for all people discharged from hospital and will work with representatives to improve good practice ( Berkshire ) .
47 The CRE is committed to good race relations .
48 Moreover under his rule the extent to which Prussia was committed to Eastern Europe and had her centre of gravity east of the Elbe was markedly accentuated .
49 In recent years many British public libraries have increased the proportion of their resources committed to satisfying unexpressed need , by taking staff away from the library base to work in institutions in the community , and by changing the nature of collections to appeal to groups who had not previously seen public libraries as providing a service useful to them .
50 Let us ignore for the moment what Labour actually means by that ; how will it deliver on its promise , bearing in mind the fact that the nuclear industry is already ring fenced , gas contracts have already been signed and committed to combined cycle gas turbine plant , and coal imports are perfectly legal under European law ?
51 Between 1927 and 1933 Nizan was clearly in a contradictory situation : at one level committed to sectarian communist ideology , at another level implicated in bourgeois careerism .
52 James , who journeyed down from Scotland in 1603 to take up his new positions as English monarch and supreme governor of the English church , was firmly committed to Calvinist theology and was to take a very active interest in the ecclesiastical affairs of his new kingdom .
53 In this kind of situation they might be concerned to hold on to what they have by accepting a change in the electoral system that would block the prospect of a Socialist Government committed to extensive state intervention and a more " extreme " kind of constitutional reconstruction .
54 One consequence is that less opportunity exists in 6 Form colleges for staff who are less than committed to pastoral care , to be carried .
55 A government committed to the principles of choice , ownership , responsibility and opportunity ; committed to low inflation and low taxes ; committed to better quality and value in our public services ; committed to strong defences .
56 A government committed to the principles of choice , ownership , responsibility and opportunity ; committed to low inflation and low taxes ; committed to better quality and value in our public services ; committed to strong defences .
57 The Government remained committed to low inflation and would keep to strict public spending limits .
58 Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy .
59 In a speech broadcast on television on Oct. 23 , shortly before polls opened , he called on voters to refrain from voting for parties not committed to Islamic values — a suggestion taken to be directed against the PPP .
60 Metal which has been purchased and committed to future sales to customers or hedged in metal markets is valued at the price at which it is contractually committed or hedged , adjusted for unexpired contango .
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