Example sentences of "[verb] be committed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the '70s to the '80s the handful which initially was Cobham Christian Fellowship grew to number 250 , and since the mid-1980s the group has been committed to church planting . |
| 2 | The Conservative government has been committed to increasing the role of market forces generally and reducing the role of the state in the economy . |
| 3 | In addition , since 1979 regional selective assistance worth £326 million has been committed to the north-west , creating more than 60,000 new jobs and safeguarding more than 60,000 existing jobs . |
| 4 | The EC has been committed to establishing a Common Market since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957 . |
| 5 | A NEWTON Aycliffe man charged with indecent assault has been committed to Teesside Crown Court . |
| 6 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 7 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 8 | Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the number of committed Jacobites in Parliament , although greater than at any other time in Anne 's reign , was still a small minority , and most Tories appear to have been committed to the Hanoverian Succession , though with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
| 10 | ‘ You have been entrusted into your own keeping as if an orphan had been committed to your trust . |
| 11 | For many years the Conservative Party had been committed to abandoning domestic rates , a commitment the 1987 Conservative government decided to uphold . |
| 12 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 13 | Historically , the labour movement had been committed to earlier rather than later retirement . |
| 14 | After one visit to a juvenile court where some gang members had been committed to Approved School after ‘ carrying out depredations against shopkeepers over quite a wide area ’ , Dr Bryan ‘ could not help feeling a little depressed at the thought of so much high spirit , imagination , ingenuity and daring shut up behind high walls ’ . |
| 15 | The children had been committed to the care of the local authority by the order made by the justices on 15 May 1991 . |
| 16 | The only procedural defect alleged in M. 's appeal is that the committal order was not served on M. personally , or , alternatively , that he was not served until 3 July , nearly a month after he had been committed to prison . |
| 17 | and Popplewell J. ) on 20 March 1992 issuing a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum on the motion of the applicant , David Thomas Alves , who , on 16 August 1990 , had been committed to custody by the Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate sitting at Bow Street to await extradition to Sweden at the request of the Government of Sweden in respect of a number of charges relating to the smuggling of cannabis into Sweden in 1984 and 1986 . |
| 18 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 19 | DEC is saying that 400 of the 900 software packages announced for Alpha OSF/1 , OpenVMS and NT platforms will be shipping by March : a total of 2,000 programs have been committed to Alpha . |
| 20 | Here we are fortunate in that John Evans in Cardiff , Graham Hillier in Plymouth and Tony Elliott in Singapore have been committed to promoting the company , and its capabilities , whilst supervising the locally based staff and discharging the responsibilities of the senior company representative in their geographical area . |