Example sentences of "commit [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 2 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 3 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 4 | ‘ It has committed itself to this new dental hospital and we are looking to it to deliver . ’ |
| 5 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 6 | Once you 've committed yourself to that theme , the route 's discreet wealth unfolds , and its names are movement and texture . |
| 7 | ‘ I am fasting to live in solidarity with all who suffer and are persecuted because they have committed themselves to social justice . |
| 8 | The mayors committed themselves to local action plans to reduce CO2 emissions : methods discussed included recycling of waste heat from heating and cooling systems , and controls on traffic . |
| 9 | At this stage regional officers had not yet committed themselves to any specific role in the implementation of the new policy . |
| 10 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 11 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 12 | I 'VE committed myself to one of the most dubious business deals of the year by investing £25 in a square yard of Doncaster Rovers ' football pitch . |
| 13 | Since January 1991 I have committed myself to full time study of the language , history and culture etc and have made a further four visits . |
| 14 | For all the music 's stylistic instability , I prefer these two early sonatas , before Krenek committed himself to serial techniques so consistently for most of the rest of his life . |
| 15 | Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform . |
| 16 | Then he knew where she was — or would be , moments after he committed himself in one direction : behind him . |
| 17 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 18 | In the mid-fifties UNRWA committed itself to two major development schemes which offered the prospect of resettling between 200,000 and 300,000 refugees . |
| 19 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 20 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 21 | Both organizations gave an undertaking to curb violence among their members and committed themselves to political tolerance and freedom of political activity , recognizing the other 's right to exist " with its own policies and programmes " . |
| 22 | A couple of years ago this kind of scenario seemed plausible to thousands of people who committed themselves to self-build co-operatives . |
| 23 | In India , local business leaders committed themselves to rural community projects following a BITCI forum held there in February . |
| 24 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 25 | This contempt derives from the 1950s and 1960s , when some senior educationalists committed themselves to fashionable ideas about teaching English : that children would learn to read naturally without the help of formal instruction , or that their writing should be the product not of craft but of free expression . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister ensured at Maastricht that the British proposals on this matter were passed : first , all countries committed themselves to improving animal welfare , which was a major step forward never agreed between those countries before ; and , secondly , in future , the European Court of Justice will be in a position to fine countries that fail to keep their obligations under Community rules . |
| 27 | ‘ If you are going to gut the house all in one go , this commits you to thousands of pounds worth of work . |
| 28 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 29 | Erm , now , the the third thing was about the training program , just to reiterate where we are on this , that if a request is made for personal development training in the current year , if you remember we , if we identify training needs that that we as management identify , that people need in order to do there present job , and then that takes absolute priority and we should get on and do those , but we get a large number of requests where people erm are , saying that they like to do things which they do n't need to do , but which they think will better equip them , and if they 're , if we 're getting any new requests this year with an expectation that further expenditure will be sought in the next financial year , that 's ninety four , five , then that request will be refused , in other words we ca , we do not see our way to committing ourselves to any |
| 30 | Despite not committing himself about specific grievances , Woolf believed that genuine injustice contributes to a lack of legitimacy which in turn makes disorder more likely . |