Example sentences of "[art] commitment to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the Kate which demonstrates the commitment to realism of the film planners . |
| 2 | The reason for this , he argues , is that the older the average age of women at marriage the greater the equality between the sexes , the greater the commitment to feminism , and the smaller the age-difference between husband and wife : ‘ Cultural take-off brings about the disappearance of the child-woman and thus of the child-wife ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 3 | In answer to his question , the right hon. Gentleman knows very well that the commitment to income tax is one that would extend over the lifetime of the future Parliament and perhaps beyond that . |
| 4 | Indeed the commitment to size for greater productivity is demonstrated by the socialist countries , who own large modern farms , but replace the private owner with the state . |
| 5 | As was noted earlier , the liberal tradition should be viewed as a continuum ; and , at the radical end of the continuum , has existed as a continuous , albeit minority , strand : the commitment to collective , social purpose Adult Education . |
| 6 | This change of attitude created problems for the large and cumbersome structure of the Labour Party , where the commitment to peace was a deep-rooted and sensitive issue . |
| 7 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science , because if we carry on like the Tories are , Britain will be pushed down to the second or third division of industrial nations . |
| 8 | ‘ We are going to build up the commitment to science because if we carry on like the Tories are , our country is going to be shoved down to the second or third division of modern industrial nations ’ . |
| 9 | The commitment to quality which is the cornerstone of our electronic materials businesses has also maintained our lead in the market for precious metal thermocouple temperature sensors , infra-red sensing materials and sapphire based materials for military and commercial markets . |
| 10 | Launched on 1 October 1932 , the BUF quickly acquired the trappings of European fascism — the ‘ black shirt ’ uniform , the commitment to action , the violent conflicts with the Communists and the Jews , and the emphasis placed upon strong leadership . |
| 11 | Underlining the commitment to disarmament and arms control , the declaration called on all member states " to prevent the proliferation in all its aspects of all weapons of mass destruction " and " to avoid excessive and destabilizing accumulation and transfers of arms " . |
| 12 | And we 've seen , we 've seen the commitment to Local Government , have n't we , on the planning application on the , where two local Councillors , two Labour Councillors , sitting there , listened so much to their electorate that they abstain when it comes up to the vote ? |
| 13 | In Japan as elsewhere the commitment to employment security is an attempt by firms to reduce the turnover of key employees and so avoid transferring the benefits of training programmes to rival firms . |
| 14 | The features of such groups are trust , involvement , the commitment to improvement and recognition for success . |
| 15 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 16 | The commitment to devolution in Wales and Scotland was wrung reluctantly from Labour in the Seventies . |
| 17 | The commitment to devolution was the Trojan horse within Labour 's gates . |
| 18 | The commitment to devolution conflicted with a stream of top-down initiatives which continued to spell out not only what managers should be doing , but how . |
| 19 | Even as otherness is being affirmed it is also being foreclosed ( ‘ The Commitment to Theory ’ , 16 ) . |
| 20 | The commitment to sterling has already been examined in relation to the political economy of Britain 's international role , the vested interests of the City of London and the nature of the system of government . |
| 21 | Other than the commitment to democracy . |
| 22 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 23 | A name with job title and telephone number should be included so that informal interaction and discussion of details of particular interest to the candidate can take place before the commitment to transmission of the application form . |
| 24 | We want , above all else , a system of inspection that does not derive from ideology , that is not a quick fix , that does not represent a commitment to privatisation on the ground that the Department of Education and Science must deliver its element of privatisation . |
| 25 | Buyoya had appointed Sibomana in October 1988 to demonstrate a commitment to reconciliation after ethnic massacres [ see pp. 36328-29 ; 37056-57 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ Moreover , it is important to realise that a commitment to animal welfare is consistent with striving to improve the overall condition of those individuals who have a welfare , both humans and other animals , even if this means decreasing the welfare of some . |
| 27 | The ultimate question which arises in this area of law is whether a commitment to subjectivism should override all other considerations regardless of circumstances or social cost . |
| 28 | These several claims justify a commitment to consistency in principle valued for its own sake . |
| 29 | If this cleaving or oneness is actually to occur , it must be activated by a commitment to intimacy , not just physical intimacy but spiritual and psychological intimacy as well . |
| 30 | Within the lively political and religious life of Leicester in the 1820s and 1830s the Baptist Mursells , father and son , shaped a commitment to missionary work and its support , antislavery and political liberalism and launched the young Congregationalist Edward Miall on his notable career in journalism and reformist religious politics . |