Example sentences of "be devoted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be devoted to a re-assessment of his life in the light of recent research — and coincides with the Scottish National Portrait Gallery exhibition ( which ends 8 Oct ) . |
| 2 | He should make it known within the company that this is one of his priorities , that the whole board supports it and that a percentage of the profits should be devoted to it . |
| 3 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 4 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 5 | The religious belief of the time requires at least a substantial part of his property to be devoted to the good of his soul . |
| 6 | May God grant that the lives he has spared may be devoted to His glory and service ! |
| 7 | The separation of husband and wife after childbirth is also beneficial , because the time immediately after giving birth is not usually when a woman feels like having sex , and time can be devoted to bonding with the baby . |
| 8 | If this book were concerned only with the unsolved problem of biology , 90 per cent of it would be devoted to two topics : behaviour and development . |
| 9 | The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel . |
| 10 | A similar thesis could be devoted to nautical anthologies . |
| 11 | In South Wales the part of the winter that could be devoted to training was confined to the pre-Christmas period because of the January start to ground preparation for the early potato crop . |
| 12 | The last Faraday Discussion to be devoted to the physical chemistry of enzymes was held in 1955 . |
| 13 | If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects . |
| 14 | Most of it would be devoted to Crabb 's bravery and service to his country during the war , the fact that he was an underwater expert and that he was always willing to test the latest equipment , some of which work was inevitably hazardous . |
| 15 | This is an aspect of pastoral development in which small groups meet together principally for Bible study but , in many cases , they may be devoted to promoting other activities as well , such as literacy classes or agricultural cooperatives . |
| 16 | He would like to see , for example , more acknowledgement that hospitals themselves have a strong impact on people , and he thinks some study should be devoted to this . |
| 17 | A great deal of effort also needs to be devoted to enhancing the social standing of the cleaners because they can so easily be regarded as inferior by other staff irrespective of their skills . |
| 18 | The two rocks are different in chemical composition , and this difference manifests itself in a number of intriguing ways ; ways which a fair part of this book will be devoted to exploring . |
| 19 | The following chapter will be devoted to an examination of the rocks produced by nuees ardentes and similar phenomena ; these travel over the surface of the ground as pyroclastic flows , and are very different . |
| 20 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 21 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 22 | Be flexible , if necessary suggest that more time should be devoted to an item at a separate meeting . |
| 23 | Considerable effort by senior management needs to be devoted to refining information so that it is related to local units , uses easily understood concepts and yardsticks , has illustrations and examples , is consistent and is a careful balance between mentioning failures and successes . |
| 24 | To end this book a chapter will , therefore , be devoted to the history of a fictitious place called Combsburgh , with the objects of demonstrating ways in which data obtained by careful research may subsequently be incorporated into a narrative . |
| 25 | This openness also showed that in relation to science the consultative process revealed massive support for the working party 's view on the time to be devoted to science and on the position of balanced science but that the Council , with some reluctance , made recommendations in accordance with the Secretary of State 's different view . |
| 26 | The final part of this chapter will be devoted to a brief summary of predator species . |
| 27 | My own view is that while that type of system will be important in the future it may not have the central role assumed for it by John Alvey — hence my plea For more resources to be devoted to looking at real user needs and trying out alternatives to the IKBS approach . |
| 28 | Moreover it imposes limits upon the proportion of labour-power which can safely be devoted to unproductive labour . |
| 29 | Her future would be devoted to her husband and children and no more would she be tempted into any indiscretions , she vowed . |
| 30 | In its recent working party discussion document , entitled Freeing Up Small Business Enterprise , the institute points out that the replacement of the present mandatory audit by an annual accountant 's report ‘ would not only give business better value for money but would also reduce the number of small company failures as more time could be devoted to the survival and growth of small business enterprise ’ . |