Example sentences of "be [verb] to making " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am committed to making sure that you have the premises , the technology and the support to make these changes . |
| 2 | Its core would be those states which are committed to making European co-operation work across the board from security to social policy : Germany and its immediate neighbours . |
| 3 | We are committed to making any changes that may be required to ensure that we can and do regulate effectively . |
| 4 | We are committed to making your stay a pleasant one . |
| 5 | This outcome is dependent upon the level of competition being sufficient to ensure that firms are constrained to making normal profits , and that they are therefore forced to reduce price when costs are lowered . |
| 6 | Police Expenditure on the police has risen by 55% since 1978–1979 Insufficient effort , though , has been devoted to making sure policemen are on the beat . |
| 7 | This , for a man whose entire working life had been devoted to making it big in the movies , came as a depressing , frustrating fact as he surveyed his position that year . |
| 8 | In recent years considerable effort has been devoted to making the computerized information system more ‘ user friendly ’ , that is , simpler to use in order to carry out efficient information retrieval . |
| 9 | Because it is difficult to get everyone together , too little time and consideration will be given to making the final decision , which may well be made simply to bring the meeting to a close because one or other member of the panel has to get away . |
| 10 | In the longer term an owners ' association may wish to take over these activities from the management company , and some thought needs to be given to making this possible . |
| 11 | During the year under review the highest priority has continued to be given to making printed materials , received from all sources , available quickly for consultation by users of the Library , and to providing bibliographic information about the collections to users at remote locations via the Joint Academic Network ( JANET ) . |
| 12 | The implication would seem to be that some lives could be ‘ so demonstrably awful ’ that the doctor 's legal duty would be limited to making the child comfortable and allowing it to die . |
| 13 | Convenient : Distribution should not be confined to making materials available in the general area of use . |
| 14 | We know that the immune system in that disease produces immunoglobulins ( which are antibodies , in the spinal fluid , which is the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal chord ) product antibodies there in the way that normal people do not , and there 's evidence too that around the areas of damaged insulation in the central nervous system , which is the characteristic abnormality or lesion in this condition , there are cells that are known to be committed to making antibody , or to aiding the production of antibody . |
| 15 | They will be geared to making us express how we lack contentment with one system of government or another . |
| 16 | Group financial accountant Tony Hall told ACCOUNTANCY that a decision to use the direct method was taken back in December 1991 so that adequate time could be devoted to making the necessary analyses . |
| 17 | Energy has to be devoted to making sure that the assumptions which lie behind these activities are genuinely shared ; mistaken judgements can lead to ambiguity in the way in which people outside a school view its managers . |
| 18 | The choice should be greater because your local health authority will not be restricted to making agreements on services with hospitals within its own boundaries . |
| 19 | This workshop will be dedicated to making modern products from the woodlands , and while materials for its construction will be traditional , the building techniques will be modern . |
| 20 | Beef classes at the show were generally stronger than the dairy entries , and chief steward Peter Horrell said that next year consideration was being given to making all the purebred beef classes EBL free . |
| 21 | Instead aspirations at both district and unit level were confined to making relatively modest service improvements and getting more control over the quality of care provided to their residents by other districts . |
| 22 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 23 | By and large , these criticisms were widely accepted and so efforts were directed to making this channel one which would allow for diversity , for new ideas and for experimentation . |
| 24 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 25 | Whether a company acquires an asset through loan or leasing , it is committed to making future cash payments . |
| 26 | He is committed to making sure swimmers do n't get out of their depth . |
| 27 | As explained above , each is committed to making , within normal business hours , a continuous market in all existing government stocks . |
| 28 | Work is geared to making as many articles as possible as cheaply as possible . |
| 29 | The difference between this and Helby v. Matthews is that here the customer was committed to making all the payments and therefore to acquiring ownership of the goods . |
| 30 | The British film industry , such as it was , was committed to making zany films about Swinging London and , if there were any parts for the over-forties , they went to outrageous character actors . |