Example sentences of "to commit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , you know , I think in answer to the embarrassment question , I think although it is about that erm , people are nay do , people wi on just are nay prepared to commit with information , I think , in areas there 's a wealth of information and experience |
| 2 | He told his superiors in Paris that 300 000 troops would be required to achieve anything ( an accurate estimate of what the French eventually had to commit in Indo-China ) . |
| 3 | 5.12.1 Not to commit in relation to the Premises any breach of planning control ( such term to be construed in the way in which it is used in the Planning Acts ) |
| 4 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 5 | There is , for example , the problem of matching finance in local currency , which governments are generally required to commit to each donor-assisted project . |
| 6 | There was no body to commit to the deep . |
| 7 | The kind of information that the general manager normally receives also affects his or her ability to conceive or to commit to new strategic ideas . |
| 8 | One has only to listen to the forthrightness of ‘ Surely , He hath borne our griefs ’ or the intricate virtuosic weaving of parts in ‘ And he shall purify ’ or ‘ All we like sheep ’ , to realise that this is a choir or rare quality and precision which should be dragged straight back into the recording studio to commit to posterity its undoubtedly sublime view of Handel 's great choral masterpieces , Solomon and Israel in Egypt , or the earlier but no less demanding Dixit Dominus . |
| 9 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 10 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 11 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 12 | ‘ ACE got Bill Gates to commit to MIPS — I give Bob Miller ( MIPS president ) accolades for it . ’ |
| 13 | A common set of robust application programming interfaces for graphical user interfaces and networking would do to start with says UI , which it believes it could get most of the community to commit to , even if each has a different implementation ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 14 | Those at lower organizational levels who will be responsible for implementing various aspects of the change can not be expected to commit to the effort until they see for themselves that the organizational leadership is similarly committed . |
| 15 | Because Jean-Claude hated to be questioned about anything relating to his family , I had to commit to memory every little detail he let slip . |
| 16 | Suppose we wish to commit to memory the date of the fictitious Battle of the Big Bend in 1482 . |
| 17 | Birmingham is one of the first universities in Europe to commit to the provision of a high speed data communications network using fibre technology . |
| 18 | But the story could not be shut up with him , and before another week had passed they had been forced to commit to the Tower six more persons , four friars minor , Stephen Lene , parson , and the prior of the friars preachers of Winchelsea . |
| 19 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 20 | Indeed , if Mr. Newman was right , retraction in this country of evidence previously given in the requesting state would ipso facto discredit the evidence so given and so deprive the magistrate of any power to commit on that basis . |
| 21 | And imprisonment ensures that the offender is deprived of the opportunity to commit at least some kinds of offence for the duration . |
| 22 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |