Example sentences of "committed [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ; |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 4 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 5 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 10 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 11 | THE Conservative Party juggernaut was last night rolling backwards and forwards across the person of Sir Anthony Meyer after he had virtually committed himself to standing against Mrs Thatcher when the annual leadership contest is formally declared open today . |
| 12 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 13 | It could be difficult persuading Eyre to undertake the direction of a play , but once he had committed himself his absorption was total . |
| 14 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 15 | If a borrower had rashly signed a credit agreement and then discovered he had committed himself to paying what he considered disproportionate interest , he could have his opinion confirmed , or shown to be unreasonable , by a court . |
| 16 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 17 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 18 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 19 | He had talked to the paper and was agreeing to join , but had not yet committed himself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 22 | Anselm had no doubt where justice lay : ‘ No man having put his hand to the plough [ that is to say , in this case , having committed himself to a monastic life ] and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of Heaven . ’ |
| 23 | By the end of 1337 Edward had committed himself to spending £124,000 on his allies , and his parliamentary grants would bring in only about £38,000 a year . |
| 24 | He has committed himself definitely to a belief . |
| 25 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 26 | He had committed himself , you see , so he was technically free to go , but they apparently lock the gates on patients all the same . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself and felt it would be ill-mannered to tell his hostess he had now made other arrangements . |
| 28 | There were too many variables for his liking , but he had committed himself now . |
| 29 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 30 | He had not yet finally committed himself to subordinating all his other interests to tragedy , but was still toying with ideas of a wider scope . |