Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she stood , in a dove-grey suede dress , looped and hung with a dozen necklaces of amethyst and rock crystal and pearl , her thick black-grey hair piled heavily , pinned with silver , attending a party in the very house where as patient she once in many hour-long sessions had disclosed to Liz on the ground floor the very secrets of her murderous mother 's heart . |
| 2 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 3 | We think it would be a mistake to try and establish any ‘ consensual ’ version of feminism or of feminist philosophy because we are committed to exploration of the beliefs and views we hold , even the ones which at present seem indisputable . |
| 4 | ( b ) An executor or administrator for trespasses committed to goods of the deceased after his death but before probate is granted to the executor or before the administrator takes out letters of administration . |
| 5 | It was also something of a reassurance to conservative waverers frightened of political radicalism ; the Council was committed to evangelization of the Christian gospel . |
| 6 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 7 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 8 | One adviser and one professional development teacher questioned whether arts HMI were genuinely committed to cooperation across the arts implicit in the concept of an aesthetic domain within the curriculum . |
| 9 | With the Supreme Court committed to ruling on the constitutionality of one such law , passed in Pennsylvania , there was every chance that the 1973 precedent could be overturned in its entirety . |
| 10 | We are committed to building on the lead we have and increasing chemical and process engineering resources to drive the various projects associated with fluidics . ’ |
| 11 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 12 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | The amnesty covered all crimes committed to date under the country 's security and military legislation , and was agreed under the terms of the accord which committed both sides to release all but common criminals . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is surprising that higher education libraries have not become more fully committed to aspects of the teaching of study skills , for various reasons . |
| 16 | When , in late 1709 , a Dissenting minister set up a conventicle in Monmouth without taking out a licence , he and some sixteen of his congregation were committed to prison by the mayor for failing to meet the provisions of the Toleration Act . |
| 17 | On the half hour John Drake 's diving header took Coyle 's crisp volley off the line with Collins beaten and Mark Donnelly had a shot scrambled to safety from the resultant corner . |
| 18 | Rat-1 fibroblasts that constitutively express a chimaeric protein , comprising a full-length c-Myc polypeptide fused to part of the human oestrogen receptor ( Rat-1/c-Myc-ER cells ) , show demonstrable c-Myc activity only in the presence of β- oestradiol . |
| 19 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 20 | In the twenty years after 1951 , Britain 's settlers from New Commonwealth countries increased from 0.2 million to 1.2 million , the majority being black workers attracted to England in the 1950s and 1960s by expanding job opportunities ( for more details , see The Runnymede Trust and the Radical Statistics Group , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Probably attracted to England in the aftermath of the death of Hans Holbein [ q.v. ] in 1543 , he is first recorded in London in 1549 . |
| 22 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 23 | Romans , and even some men from southern Italy , were attracted to Paris as the intellectual centre of Europe at this time . |
| 24 | He is not attracted to men in the least , however . |
| 25 | Many feminists who are Christians are surely attracted to Christianity through the compelling nature of the person who was Jesus of Nazareth and the power of his message , which resonates with their own beliefs and values . |
| 26 | Bright young engineers from rival firms are attracted to Keyence by the chance to do their own research , rather than labouring for years under grey-haired supervisors . |
| 27 | His exact statement was that he ‘ had been assured by UPH that no profit of any description either directly or indirectly accrued to UPH from the transaction with Telecom ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 29 | Pentos shares had dropped to 61p on the Monday before Christmas , having slipped 5.5p to 65.5p the previous week . |
| 30 | Deftly , the Committee responded to criticisms of the draft report published six months earlier , and without disengaging the central thrust of the proposals , won over many interested bodies , including the Institute of Directors and the Confederation of British Industry , both of which had harboured serious reservations . |