Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , Edwards ' indicators were designed to measure in various ways the extent to which speakers have contact with black friends and neighbours and participate in black social activities . |
| 2 | She moved to area in 1975 , and her first job was at a primary school in Middlesbrough where she taught music . |
| 3 | He moved to risley in 1979 when he was created Company industrial relations manager . |
| 4 | The really bright ones would become genuine leaders , and the drop-outs , who notoriously contributed to agitation in other tribes , would be ‘ sucked into the vortex of conservatism ’ and be indistinguishable from their uneducated fellows . |
| 5 | And in general terms they 're something of the order of twenty five and a half thousand swellings committed to development in the county , together with three and a half thousand erm in in in draft local plans . |
| 6 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 7 | Although he 's only seventeen Chris is committed to art in one form or another as something he intends to stick with for life . |
| 8 | We know that there is a limit to what Britain can achieve alone and we are committed to building in the wider world the sort of society we strive for at home , founded on mutual cooperation , political liberty and shared prosperity . |
| 9 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | If you 're committed to trial in this court you will be committed to Preston . |
| 11 | This debate will continue to be the context in life of every person , including those committed to belief in God . |
| 12 | He said South Africa 's security forces were unable to deal with the violence , adding : ‘ We are calling for the formation of an internal peace force … the only qualification should be that the peace force be composed of people who are committed to democracy in this country . ’ |
| 13 | An alternative — and theoretically the more sound approach — is a ‘ demand-led ’ strategy in which general managers are committed to investment in development because they can see its importance . |
| 14 | The Alliance was committed to economy in local government , and the rates issue had been an effective ideological weapon in the past . |
| 15 | One is the number of people committed to prison in any one year ( referred to as the rate of imprisonment or number of prison receptions ) ; the second is the length of sentence actually imposed by the courts ; and the third ( over which the courts have no direct control ) is the operation of the various forms of executive release , such as parole ( and , formerly , remission ) , which we will be looking at in Chapter 6 . |
| 16 | It is tempting to assume that those particularly committed to Language in Education would have replied , but there is no way of being sure about this . |
| 17 | This view is supported by the strong commitment of College staff ( 9 out of 13 institutions had 6+ staff with a prime commitment to language ) , whereas only 4 universities listed themselves as having even 1–2 people primarily committed to Language in Education . |
| 18 | How far Temple 's aspirations coincided with reality may be judged by these observations committed to paper in 1962 by a man who had been his native clerk : ‘ To speak the gospel truth ’ , this man recalled , ‘ Mr Temple was very harsh towards the native chiefs … really , he did not spare the rod as far as efficient administration was concerned ; … he was bad-tempered … |
| 19 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 20 | We may also see a relationship between a willingness to accept the authoritative knowledge of a subject and a willingness to defer to authority in general . |
| 21 | For homesexual males , the annual incidence of AIDS is expected to plateau in 1994 in line with a peak annual incidence of HIV infection in 1983–84 . |
| 22 | In the course of this book , we shall appeal to evidence in the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic literature which offers insights into the way in which discourse , produced in describable contexts for recognisable purposes , is processed and comprehended . |
| 23 | While the children each paid 25p to come to school in clothes of their own choice , the staff dressed up St. Trinians style in uniform . |
| 24 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 25 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 26 | Marx had expected the communists to come to power in the most developed industrial societies of the West , where there would already be considerable accumulated wealth , scientific knowledge , and industrial capital to provide well-being for all . |
| 27 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | More reassuring in terms of Soviet policy was Gorbachev 's dramatic decision to allow a non-Communist premier to come to power in Poland . |
| 29 | Major naval , military and railway construction programmes scheduled to come to fruition in 1917–18 argued strongly for delay . |
| 30 | They have warned that similar cases , involving pesticides as well as other toxic chemicals , are bound to come to light in the future , the legacy of inadequate waste-disposal standards in force for many years . |