Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pron] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 2 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 3 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 4 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 5 | Their desperate League form this season has consigned them to a similar predicament , while Chelsea are on the crest of a wave . |
| 6 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 7 | Russian , ultimately , has brought us to a similar endeavour . |
| 8 | In 1931 he stated : the moment the responsibilities of any community , particularly in the field of social and economic questions , are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington , then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy . |
| 9 | This is particularly important if a ‘ traditional ’ training has kept them to a limited understanding and repertoire . |