Example sentences of "were committed to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Argyle ( 1987 ) concluded that the effects were worst for people who were committed to the work ethic . |
| 2 | It was natural that the original biological positivists should focus exclusively on the criminal , since they were committed to the view that the causes of crime were to be found in the individual 's biological make-up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And as we have already noted , many male workers , especially in " skilled " occupations , were committed to the notion of a male " family wage " high enough to keep wife and children . |
| 5 | Only the earl of Lancaster among the nobility and Winchelsey among the prelates were committed to the Ordinances ; others seemed to regard them as a measure , or cover for measures , against Gaveston ; Winchelsey , however , died in 1313 , leaving Lancaster alone to pursue his ambitions in the name of the Ordinances . |
| 6 | Immediately dominated by the teacher unions , who were committed to the maintenance of teacher autonomy , the Council soon came to view its tasks as increasing the range of choice available to teachers but in no way prescribing what and how they taught . |
| 7 | Group directors and national directors were committed to the same goals . |
| 8 | these parties were committed to the continuance of a free market economy by concentrating on combating inflation and a spiralling deficit , speeding up the privatisation of state enterprises , thereby reducing state bureaucracy , and the steady reduction of the trade barriers and import tariffs . |
| 9 | We were committed to the continuance of Britain 's nuclear programme . |
| 10 | The band who were committed to the Abba revival and flares fives years ago have come out of retirement and intend to convert a whole new audience to their zany cocktail of punk , glam and psychedelia . |
| 11 | On Aug. 16 Pérez de Cuéllar said that 40 countries had thus far notified him of sanctions measures , as they were required to do by Aug. 24 , and on Aug. 28 the committee on compliance heard that well over half of all UN member countries were committed to the embargo . |
| 12 | Some Nonjurors , though never implicated in Jacobite intrigue , nevertheless were committed to the principle of a Stuart restoration — for example the cleric , Jeremy Collier , or the lawyer , Roger North , who had been attorney-general to the Queen in James II 's reign . |
| 13 | The two countries were committed to the scheme until 1989 , when Hungary withdrew . |
| 14 | Neither the erm of the two other major parties are , but both the Socialists and erm President erm ex-President Giscard 's party erm were committed to the idea of European integration . |