Example sentences of "committed [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Pearl 's transfers by Attwell , Wells and Haynes have safely committed them to CD .
2 Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government .
3 It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way .
4 If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that .
5 committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ;
6 The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work .
7 We 've committed ourselves to it .
8 Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion .
9 We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent .
10 If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms .
11 We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate .
12 I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces .
13 What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs .
14 Twenty percent , twenty five percent of the crime committed em nationally , is by people under the age of sixteen .
15 The good news from the Beacon Centre is that two of the men who have been coming along have committed their lives to Jesus .
16 Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books .
17 CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid .
18 We pray for those of our brothers who are denied freedom of worship , and for those who suffer imprisonment because they have committed their lives to follow Jesus .
19 The ambassadors of France , the United States and Zaïre on Dec. 12 reportedly committed their countries to maintain friendly relations with the new government .
20 The Company Patrons have committed their organisations to give the association substantial , planned support over a number of years .
21 VICTORIA State Museum and the RAAF Museum formally committed their collective resources towards the development of the National Air & Space Museum of Australia ( NASMA ) in 1991 .
22 Any one who is saved , any one who is a Christian , who is a follower of Jesus Christ , who has committed their life to Christ , who has received his forgiveness , and who belongs to him , any one is ready and able to receive the Holy Spirit .
23 But you know , for the person who does not know Jesus Christ as their saviour , for the person who has never committed their life to God listen to what God says for that person .
24 There is the difference for the person who has put their trust in God who has committed their life to Christ and they will go and you and I will go through those storms , and through those tempests , and be knocked around and be , almost swamped by them but the thing is we are not alone Jesus Christ , he is in the boat of your life with you .
25 For example , some crime was to be committed which would bring upon the Old Navigator , as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him , the spectral persecution … and his own wanderings .
26 The only tears which are ever shed are those from actions unwittingly committed which have hurt the beloved .
27 There is , of course , a problem which must be confronted by both the police and the press if — after a brief time has elapsed — the crime remains unsolved and no further atrocities are being committed which can , even remotely , be connected with the original outrage .
28 The children were introduced to a toy Pink Panther who , they were told , had caught the culprits but did not know who had committed which crime .
29 The children were then to be given clues to help them solve the mysteries and they were to tell the Pink Panther ( who was not privy to this information ) who had committed which crime .
30 They 're already committed which is quite good in January .
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