Example sentences of "[adj] commitment to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the figures given yesterday for expenditure on the national health service , education and transport show our clear commitment to expenditure on those items ? |
| 2 | However , the prospect that such a strategy might succeed appeared somewhat remote from the outset given the rather equivocal commitment to freedom of conscience under the convention as a whole ( not least of which is its failure to incorporate a right of conscientious objection to compulsory military service ( Dignan , 1983 ) ) . |
| 3 | According to these sources , the Pope and the Secretariat of State intend to push for a firm public commitment to legalisation by Mr Gorbachev when he visits Italy and the Vatican at the end of November . |
| 4 | This view of our purpose prevents frustration at loss of ‘ role within the church ’ and encourages a fresh commitment to evangelism as a way of life . |
| 5 | The result prompted French President François Mitterrand to announce on June 3 that a referendum would be held in France to ratify the Treaty ; both Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany issued a statement expressing their joint commitment to completion of the ratification process . |
| 6 | Business Post has shown a tremendous commitment to quality by taking this route . ’ |
| 7 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 8 | Noticeable commitment to training in general and to foreign language training in particular . |
| 9 | There is in Freud an explicit commitment to science as a method of gaining knowledge , this being understood to include speculative thought which is then checked against systematic observations of human action and behaviour . |
| 10 | Although this pilot was not monitored formally , it was hailed by participating students and staff as an unreserved success , generating a substantial commitment to equality for students with severe learning difficulties , and a sound knowledge , on a practical level , of many of their needs . |
| 11 | His firm commitment to flexibilIty in the education of deaf people contributed significantly to the surging emancipation of deaf children everywhere from the yoke of generations of denial . |
| 12 | The CITB , which was established under the Industrial Training Act of 1964 , has a firm commitment to training in industry . |
| 13 | The pattern was repeated again and again in the following decades , thereby creating an atmosphere of confrontation which encouraged a few incorrigible spirits to make a lifelong commitment to war against authority . |
| 14 | The new Bernheim plant represents United Distillers ' continued commitment to investment in its Bourbon brands . |
| 15 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
| 16 | A more common relationship is that between adult education and MSC whose declared commitment to training of various kinds and social education in preparation for responsible citizenship is well known . |
| 17 | Although teacher training represented one of the three major priorities identified by the Warnock Committee , the resources devoted to this priority have been meagre , despite a strong commitment to training from teachers , LEAs , staff of higher education , HMI and the DES itself . |
| 18 | The study finds little evidence of overt discrimination against women , or of low expectations or low commitment to employment amongst women . |
| 19 | The extent to which central training staff of local authorities were seen by libraries to be involved in their training was examined , and the provision of central courses they offered was also looked at ( in Chapter 5 ) , leading to the conclusion that central training provision reflects the overall policy of , and general commitment to training of the parent authority , and thus is likely to coincide with existence of other resources . |
| 20 | Thus , during treatment there are visits to some meetings of appropriate Anonymous Fellowships outside the treatment centre so that there is preparation for long-term commitment to recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 21 | They are the inclusion of the Asylum Bill and the absence of any commitment to action against what we still — inappropriately — refer to , as the Home Secretary did today , as joyriding . |
| 22 | The ideological commitment to equality between the sexes reinforces expectations about male participation in the very early stages of parenthood which may subsequently be disappointed by social , biological and practical realities . |
| 23 | Like most families in the city we were united by our common commitment to soccer by split by our own particular devotions . |
| 24 | Rejecting the younger officers ' professed greater commitment to prosecution as a ready sanction for deviance , the older staff claim they will negotiate whenever possible , contemplating the law as the ultimate response , resorted to with extreme reluctance . |
| 25 | The applications of computers to other subjects have resulted in a significant commitment to computing in those subjects , but the subject of Computer Science itself remains at the centre : ‘ systematic approaches to the development of computer based systems ( hardware and software ) ’ . |
| 26 | Univel looks to be backing off its original commitment to port to non-Intel platforms like Sparc . |