Example sentences of "[vb pp] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In R v Sunderland JC , ex pG [ 1988 ] 2 FLR 40 , a case decided under the old law , the Court of Appeal held that the guardian ad litem 's report should not be disclosed to an independent social worker instructed by a parent unless it could be shown that the evidence of the independent social worker would assist the court . |
| 2 | Social-purity legislation , such as the Industrial Schools Amendment Act of 1881 , which allowed children of prostitutes to be committed to an industrial school , and the 1885 Act , gave further powers to the police in their surveillance over women and children . |
| 3 | The short-term factors included the election in 1964 of a Labour government committed to an administrative reform of the institutions of government ; the appointment of a reforming minister — R H S Crossman — to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ; and the support for the idea of reform that he received from his senior civil servants ( Wood 1976 : 176–7 ) . |
| 4 | He repeated his belief that Mr Clinton was committed to an early settlement of the crucial GATT ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) talks which have stalled in Geneva . |
| 5 | This Government are committed to an effective policy of regional development , and I remind the hon. Member for Gateshead , East that much has been achieved over the past 10 years . |
| 6 | We are committed to an effective regional industrial policy . |
| 7 | That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure . |
| 8 | However , in practice insufficient weight is often given to this aspect of a recruitment policy , so that a firm committed to an internal promotion policy will have to make do with available talent for future promotions . |
| 9 | No no I we 're not saying that at all , that 's a different proposition entirely er certainly the County Council is at this moment in time committed to an outer northern relief road , I do n't think there 's any question of that . |
| 10 | If an employer is committed to an agreed procedure or customary arrangement regarding redundancies , he should adhere to it . |
| 11 | The Labour administration elected to the Greater London Council in 1981 was committed to an extensive programme of economic intervention , to be supported by economic research on a larger scale than previously experienced in local government and with radically new approaches to generating and implementing policy . |
| 12 | He had a premonition that if he read it , he would find himself committed to an ever-widening circle of excommunications . |
| 13 | His voice was a husky purr of reassurance and the shapes of it in her head deepened to an indigo rock of security that she knew , without knowing how , was going to guard her . |
| 14 | Most newly independent governments were attracted to an agricultural strategy which thrust aside the supposed limitations of the existing agricultural system and adopted various forms of ‘ transformation ’ approach . |
| 15 | Luke 's voice dropped to an answering purr . |
| 16 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 17 | And finally , surely at this present moment , only four miles east of Harrogate and about three miles east of Ripon the A s A one is at this very moment in time being lifted to an acceptable standard A motorway standard at this stage and not in the year two thousand which is what you 're talking about for this road . |
| 18 | Do not forget that most dryers need to be vented to an outside wall . |
| 19 | The quiet , comfortable rooms are beautifully decorated to an individual style and all have private bathroom , television & radio . |
| 20 | Samples of cell suspension , or of the adenylate cyclase assay system , were added to an equal volume of ice cold ethanol , immediately frozen , and were stored at -20°C . |
| 21 | There was correspondence with Woburn over the construction of a shelter for orange trees , to be added to an existing wall , with a moveable roof erected every autumn . |
| 22 | Whenever records are added to an existing file , as both home and synonym records from the original load have already been stored ; in this case the probability of an addition that is a potential home record being prevented from taking up its home position by a synonym that was loaded earlier is high . |
| 23 | Five additional members were added to an existing committee entrusted with monitoring , fighting and controlling oil fires . |
| 24 | Table 6.7 compares the additional times added to an average record seek due to consecutive spill ( for files using mid-square and division randomizing techniques ) , chained overflow in a separate area and chained overflow in the prime data area . |
| 25 | An 88 800 kg batch of sodium carbonate solution containing 8480 kg of Na2CO3 is added to an agitated vessel called a causticiser . |
| 26 | We also provide details of a simple AM tuner which can be added to an audio system which only has an FM reception capability . |
| 27 | Rescorla ( 1971 ) found that the CR remained undiminished when a latent inhibitor was added to an excitatory CS whereas experiments by Kremer ( 1972 ) and by Reiss and Wagner ( 1972 , experiment 2 ) have both found that the compound tends to evoke less conditioned responding than the excitatory CS alone . |
| 28 | There should then be no plateaux in the Hall voltage because as more electrons are added to an unfilled Landau level we expect a smooth decrease of the Hall voltage . |
| 29 | The inference that he did so by selling is supported by the incidental evidence of miracle-stories : one from St-Benoît-sur-Loire , for instance , recorded in the 870s , tells of two " comrades " ( compares ) at the monastery 's weekly market , who quarrelled over the 12d. they had made on their joint transactions ; another story of similar date from St-Hubert in the Ardennes has a peasant ( rusticus ) stating quite explicitly that he has come to an annual fair " to acquire the wherewithal to pay what I owe to my lord " . |
| 30 | The author has come to an overall conclusion that , perhaps , clients and dealers are very much the same sort of people . |