Example sentences of "devoted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of its organizers were members of traditional organizations of the old sodality type : members from the Legion of Mary , the Knights of Columbanus , and one or two other organizations of more recent origin devoted to the strengthening of catholic morality . |
| 2 | Telephone Management Systems customer care director Anne Nunn also speaks for many suppliers when she talks about the imbalance between the knowledge required of hotel staff and the time devoted to training them . |
| 3 | The different colours of the rainbow of theory are evident in ‘ New Accents ’ titles , and in the various journals devoted to theoretical discourse . |
| 4 | However , new academic journals are regularly launched , devoted to one or other of the many specialisms into which English is fragmenting , and in their earlier issues , at least , are likely to be looking for contributions . |
| 5 | Chinese philsophers , gourmets and poets have produced over the centuries an extensive literature devoted to tea and its presumed effects upon the body and soul . |
| 6 | MICHAELSON & ORIENT At a gallery specialising in ceramics , a show devoted to the distinguished British ceramicist , Henry Pim . |
| 7 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |
| 8 | It is all in stark contrast to the two pages Neues Deutschland devoted to feting the ‘ fundamental lesson ’ to be learned from China , and showing demonstrators to be vicious thugs . |
| 9 | Time was initially divided between two sections within the station in order to broaden the range of contacts , and visits were made to other stations , but , as the time devoted to data collection lengthened and data collection itself became more intensive , the focus narrowed to one section : roughly about twenty people . |
| 10 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 11 | Only later did occasional references appear on inner pages devoted to food collection there . |
| 12 | Their activities at the start of NEP are studied in the chapter devoted to the cultural capital , which was still Petrograd rather than Moscow in 1922 . |
| 13 | The historiography of the post-Disraelian Conservative party is strikingly sparse when compared to the volume of work devoted to its opponents . |
| 14 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 15 | Between 1960 and 1980 the total acreage devoted to food production in Africa increased from about 70 million hectares to about 100 million , or about 2.5 per cent per year , sufficient to sustain a population increase of about 2.7 per cent . |
| 16 | That there should be an issue of the Oxford Art Journal devoted to Latin American art is itself testimony to the success of such efforts . |
| 17 | Each year the time devoted to it and the importance attached to it , especially on television , seems to increase . |
| 18 | That day was , for the Colonel , devoted to a succession of telephone calls and a stack of files , most with ‘ urgent ’ tags pinned on them . |
| 19 | Now go uptown to the heights of Lansdown where there 's another clutch of shops devoted to decorative antiques . |
| 20 | I am a country living junkie and my appetite for magazines devoted to country life is insatiable . |
| 21 | They had enjoyed his single status and the attention he devoted to them , and frankly did not want the intrusion of a newcomer . |
| 22 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 23 | According to Nasscom Chief Executive , Prem Shivdasani , there are about 300 Indian firms devoted to computer software engineering . |
| 24 | To my surprise , the space devoted to the kinetic sculptures by David Medalla had a lively and progressive atmosphere . |
| 25 | It shows the decline in the percentage of the Gross Domestic Product devoted to Defence from 1946 onwards . |
| 26 | Their lifestyle contains all the ingredients that for us make up ‘ the good life ’ — plenty of time devoted to playing , socialising , and making love . |
| 27 | The more resources that Japan devoted to its basic comforts , reasoned the Americans , the less it would have for featherbedding its export industries — and thus , just possibly , Japan 's trade surplus with America might fall . |
| 28 | But the allocation makes no difference at all to the amount of resources devoted to suppressing sparks . |
| 29 | Clinton Heylin , author of the latest biography , ‘ Dylan : Behind the Shades ’ * , ranks amongst the most assiduous , having co-founded the Telegraph , a quarterly magazine devoted to the study of Dylan 's life and work , and written an extraordinarily detailed chronology of his hero 's life . |
| 30 | The most likely development is that studios will imitate the music business and create separate divisions devoted to films for black audiences , where black producers who know their market best will determine what films are made . |