Example sentences of "[verb] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | All film , video and television production is an example of the use of tools other than language to communicate to an audience . |
| 2 | In it , you mentioned that you would be willing to write to an official in support of the building of a proper path between Bloomiehall Park and Muirwood Road , to give children a shorter and potentially safer route to school avoiding the Lanark Road . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
| 5 | From his learning experiences at this time Horton moved to an interest in the Danish idea of Folk Schools which were based on non-formal , largely oral , methods of learning , and which embraced both contemporary political and a cultural side to the education . |
| 6 | He moved to an independent helicopter operator in Dubai and had cause to visit Egypt to inspect some Bell 212s for sale . |
| 7 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 8 | Celia moved to an easy-chair , so that David and Juliet could sit together on the sofa . |
| 9 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 10 | Moreover , we may point out that even if corresponding attributive and predicative adjectives ( occurring with the same noun ) could be relied on to share the same referential locus , that would be no justification for leaping to an assertion that the two elements are actually " the same " tout court , and even less for claiming that the structural positions they occupy are alternative forms of each other . |
| 11 | Most of the deal was carried out in New York and this contributed to an air of confusion in the music press . |
| 12 | Second , there was the difficulty of staffing the hospital to an adequate level , given that new entrants to the service were difficult to attract to an institution which was closing . |
| 13 | He was committed to an asylum where he died soon afterwards . ’ |
| 14 | All the alternatives have not been properly considered , and must be before the Institute is committed to an enterprise of this magnitude . |
| 15 | The prophet Tawney , now writing for the Manchester Guardian and still committed to an extension of grammar-school opportunities could , on the twenty-first anniversary of Secondary Education for All , write : ‘ Now , at last , the reign of organised torpor masquerading as statesmanship shows signs of ending . ’ |
| 16 | If an employer is committed to an agreed procedure or customary arrangement regarding redundancies , he should adhere to it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The bottom line for liability is that you are only legally committed to an agreement made by an agent when : |
| 19 | He had a premonition that if he read it , he would find himself committed to an ever-widening circle of excommunications . |
| 20 | Anglicans were still too heavily committed to an organization suited to a predominantly rural society . |
| 21 | Suppose that I am committed to an ideal of conserving areas of natural beauty or variegated wild life in my country . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Committed to an ideal of ‘ astronomy without hypotheses , ’ he nevertheless chided Copernicus for having employed the ‘ most absurd fable in order to demonstrate the true facts of nature from false causes . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 26 | Committed to an asylum for the criminally insane … |
| 27 | While some linguists may concentrate on determining the formal properties of a language , the discourse analyst is committed to an investigation of what that language is used for . |
| 28 | Not only was there nearly a Black President of the most powerful nation on earth but one committed to an entirely new world order . |
| 29 | That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure . |
| 30 | We know that the Labour party is committed to an increase in child benefit and pensions , covered by its eight new or increased taxes , a point that has featured in the debate . |