Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] committed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1901 worker activists were overwhelmingly committed to the need for political revolution . |
| 2 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 3 | By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup . |
| 4 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 5 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 6 | In the following month , October 1989 , a new republic was declared , but by that time Soviet troops were already committed to leaving . |
| 7 | Quasi-judicial functions , it was thought , were best committed to politically responsible Ministers rather than to courts because ultimately the required decision had to be made on policy grounds . |
| 8 | Perhaps of greater importance than those who were attracted to fascism for irrational or emotive reasons were those who were ideologically committed to the form of radicalism which BUF doctrine and propaganda promulgated . |
| 9 | Local medical officers were usually committed to a purely professional radicalism , transfixed with the reduction of their magic figures , the disease and death rates , in local sanitary areas . |
| 10 | Mr Ashford said the exams harked back to those of the 1950s when memory was all that mattered and certain sections of right-wing politicians were totally committed to them . |
| 11 | One adviser and one professional development teacher questioned whether arts HMI were genuinely committed to cooperation across the arts implicit in the concept of an aesthetic domain within the curriculum . |
| 12 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 13 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 14 | It was still early days but he stressed they were still committed to the scheme and had confidence in its future . |
| 15 | It was precisely the power of Jacobitism as a negative ideal which explains the strength of the Jacobite challenge at the time of the Hanoverian succession , but also its ultimate failure , since there were few people who were really committed to the positive alternative which the Stuarts represented . |
| 16 | The government and the TUC were now committed to a concordat to bring inflation down to 5 per cent over three years , while new TUC guidelines were issued over picketing and the operation of the closed shop . |
| 17 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 18 | Poland was becoming the most industrialized part of the Tsar 's empire , and the business classes , as represented in the National Democrats , were strongly committed to remaining part of this imperial market . |
| 19 | Municipal men had traditionally operated in a service-inspired environment and were strongly committed to the spread of electricity use , especially to domestic consumers . |
| 20 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 21 | The other colleges were equally committed to the provision of full-time and part-time advanced education , and to the pattern of combined advanced and non-advanced education which enabled students to progress easily through the system . |
| 22 | Before attempting to introduce the legislation this strategy required , the Reagan forces prepared the ground by taking unprecedented steps to ensure that those appointed to the new administration were fully committed to the president 's aims . |
| 23 | As Coote himself protested , both men were privately committed to legislation but believed they could not involve the government on the issue . |
| 24 | Over a six-year period the board membership moved from a minority of three people who supported the change to a ‘ critical mass ’ of individuals who were firmly committed to the change and concerned only about how to implement it . |
| 25 | The Whigs were firmly committed to the European alliance , and thought the best way to prosecute the war effort was through a full continental campaign . |
| 26 | The ecumenical movement had become better established and although it would be an exaggeration to say that the major Protestant denominations were heavily committed to a ‘ Romeward trend ’ , it was clearly the case that many church leaders were seeking better relations with the Roman Church . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , as far as is known , no written parchments have survived from the Minoan civilization , and it may be that the finest Minoan thoughts were never committed to writing . |
| 28 | They are entitled to do that in a free European democracy , but we are entitled to hold our ground and to argue that we as a nation were never committed to a united states of Europe in 1973 , that we are not committed to it now and that we do not intend to pre-empt that decision . |
| 29 | The Labour Party and the Labour government were explicitly committed to planning , but what planning meant was not precisely defined or theoretically established [ Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 30 | First , his trustee , Mr Basden , charged him with contempt of court for failing to produce statements of his financial affairs over the preceding five years , and Hooley was eventually committed to Brixton Prison for a month . |