Example sentences of "be committed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to buy a used 110 CSW and am committed to the V8 , needing its on-road performance . |
| 2 | I am committed to God . |
| 3 | I am committed to my partner . |
| 4 | ‘ I walked away and put things on hold for a couple of years but now I am committed to getting that shirt , ’ he added . |
| 5 | Suppose that I am committed to an ideal of conserving areas of natural beauty or variegated wild life in my country . |
| 6 | I am committed to making sure that you have the premises , the technology and the support to make these changes . |
| 7 | I am committed to revolution too — for a hate-free , fear-free , greed-free world . ’ |
| 8 | I am committed to ensuring that the few incompetent and dishonest members of our profession are rooted out . |
| 9 | Because I recognise you will have concerns I am committed to a vigorous programme of communication both at corporate and at local level . |
| 10 | I am committed to the coal industry , but not blindly so , as are some Labour Members . |
| 11 | I am committed to Nottinghamshire miners , which is hardly surprising — but that is not the case , or has not been , with Labour . |
| 12 | I am committed to this enterprise : To climb the mountain , to cut down the cedar , and leave behind me an enduring name . ’ |
| 13 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 14 | ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 15 | Mr Harper said : ‘ I am committed to these elderly people and I feel they deserve more than this . |
| 16 | Euro-hopefuls argue that if Europe had already been committed to a common foreign and security policy , its military contribution in the Gulf would have been swifter and more effective . |
| 17 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 18 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 19 | ‘ You have been entrusted into your own keeping as if an orphan had been committed to your trust . |
| 20 | For many years the Conservative Party had been committed to abandoning domestic rates , a commitment the 1987 Conservative government decided to uphold . |
| 21 | Its philosophy is still developing , but it 's now a very concrete operation — £2 million has already been committed to 18 research projects in the UK , the Netherlands , Eire and the US , and we are still adding projects to the list . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Conservative government has been committed to increasing the role of market forces generally and reducing the role of the state in the economy . |
| 25 | Historically , the labour movement had been committed to earlier rather than later retirement . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |