Example sentences of "devoted [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting to go into hospital was devoted largely to the consideration of this strange disease that had so suddenly materialized from nowhere , secreted itself in my hitherto unglamorous , unblemished , unconsidered inside and now threatened me . |
| 2 | During World War I the Swindon works was devoted largely to the production of munitions under Churchward 's direction . |
| 3 | He did not envisage the participation of representatives of the Afghan government in such a conference , which he emphasised would be devoted not to the status of Afghanistan but to ‘ terminating interference in Afghanistan ’ as a condition for restoring its character as a non-aligned state . |
| 4 | St. Leonard 's Hospital was devoted mainly to the care of lepers but by the time of the Reformation , leprosy had largely disappeared from England . |
| 5 | The Balinese are remarkable in that they give but half their time to the chores of food and shelter ; the rest is devoted simply to the celebration of life . |
| 6 | His encyclical Mediator Dei , published on 20 December 1947 , was the first one in the history of such documents to be devoted exclusively to the liturgy . |
| 7 | It is devoted instead to the worship of the charitable Rytasha , who is not content simply to hand over the cash but insists , in an unfortunate hangover from her Hare Krishna days , on posturing as ‘ a spiritual master ’ . |
| 8 | Most of it is devoted either to the Chorus or to the development of Henry 's character . |
| 9 | Some books are devoted specifically to the sort of information which can be recovered from coins and the methodology of their study : M. Grant , Roman History from Coins ( 1958 ) ; John Casey , Understanding Ancient Coins ( 1986 ) ; M. H. Crawford , Sources for Ancient History ( 1983 ) , chapter 4 ; and J. Casey and R. Reece ( eds . ) , |