Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty-first century . |
| 2 | This is the expression of a man deeply committed to the practical development of the Soviet socialist state , dismissive of esoteric philosophical debates which fail to take into account the material conditions of the socialist experiment , and preoccupied above all with the need to defend an increasingly isolated Soviet Union from potentially damaging criticisms , however well intentioned they might be . |
| 3 | We are committed to the practical care of all those who are ill with AIDS/HIV regardless of race , religion , lifestyle , sex , sexuality or any other factor . |
| 4 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 5 | In formal terms , the Labour Party in North Tyneside was committed to the central role of council housing in urban development after 1974 . |
| 6 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
| 7 | BP Exploration is committed to the continuous improvement of its already high HSE performance , despite the tough economic climate . |
| 8 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 9 | We have been robust in dealing with planning applications in green belt areas , and we are wholly committed to the five objectives of the green belt . |
| 10 | Liberal Democrats remain steadfastly committed to the original aims of the NHS : to enable everyone to live free of the fear of illness , injury and disability ; to provide health care free at the point of delivery and regardless of ability to pay . |
| 11 | Thus , despite the fact , that WFP will require a substantial input of accounting resources these will be largely committed to the bureaucratic tasks of co-ordinating transactions between A and B. Given particularly the government 's record in the early 1980's of denouncing the ‘ excessive , administrative costs of the NHS , that seems incredible . |
| 12 | ACET is committed to the unconditional care of all those who are ill with HIV/AIDS regardless of race , religion , lifestyle , sex , sexuality or any other factor . |
| 13 | On the outbreak of war the Iraqi army , including recalled reservists , numbered some 955,000 , of whom 620,000 were estimated to be committed to the Kuwaiti theatre of operations ( however , post-war evaluation called seriously into question initial Western intelligence estimates and it was suggested that the figure was nearer 300,000 ) . |
| 14 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 15 | We have had three Conservative governments that have been and still are committed to the rolling back of the ‘ nanny ’ state . |
| 16 | The latter , represented by people like Yves Congar , Henri de Lubac and Louis Bouyer , appealed away from the post-medieval neo-scholastic synthesis of contemporary official Catholic theology to a far more creative use of biblical and patristic sources ; it accepted the rightness of part of the classical Protestant critique of Roman Catholicism ; it fully adhered to the highest standards of modern scholarship , but in a really quite traditional way . |
| 17 | On April 29 the FLN official newspaper El Moudjahid called for an alliance of left-wing parties , including the communists , to present a " democratic " alternative to voters attracted to the Islamic fundamentalism of the FIS . |
| 18 | Citalia customers are increasingly attracted to the imposing character of the hotel and to its tasteful decor . |
| 19 | But once again the money ran out before sufficient audiences could be attracted to the new policies of temperance and self-improvement , and in 1884 it was the millionaire textile manufacturer and Liberal MP , Samuel Morley [ q.v. ] , who came to the rescue of Emma and her theatre with interim funding , which led eventually to support from the charity commissioners and other private sponsorship with which , in 1891 , Emma Cons was able to buy the freehold of the theatre and dedicate it to musical and other entertainments of an uplifting or educational nature . |
| 20 | It was her folly to be attracted to the wrong kind of man , but perhaps one day she might learn her lesson . |
| 21 | A precociously bright boy , he was attracted to the intellectual aspects of the game , as well as the physical participation in it . |
| 22 | The ant parts used to paint women 's faces in the maize festival are from the ants that are attracted to the extrafloral nectaries of cassava and keep insects off the beans that are trained up the more robust maize . |
| 23 | Many of the urban young were attracted to the para-military uniform of the Black Panthers , formed in 1966 . |
| 24 | Buyers are attracted to the glamorous provenance of works recovered from the sea bed and prices are generally higher than for similar objects without such watery origins . |
| 25 | We 're attracted to the same sort of subject matter ; I think that 's it is n't it ? |
| 26 | A FORMER soldier and adventurer , shot by robbers in Brazil , died of a single bullet wound to the left side of his head , an inquest heard . |
| 27 | He died of a single gunshot wound to the left side of the head following the attack at the ancient tourist town of Parati . |
| 28 | The track gradually dropped to the rippling waters of the Hongu Khola , where we made camp on the banks of the river amidst azaleas and fragrang scrub juniper between the enclosing mountains . |
| 29 | The Green Room , a flap of canvas pegged to the ruinous wall of the Bishop 's Palace , was heavy with the smell of powder and sweat . |
| 30 | The industry had responded to the great challenge of a whole era of ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ by not only cleaning up minor abuses but by becoming itself an agency of social improvement . |