Example sentences of "[prep] a commitment to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This might occur if general practices encouraged a partner with a special interest in diabetes to care for their diabetic patients ; if practices are well equipped as part of a commitment to quality of care ; if the practice has access to dietitian services — most appropriately , perhaps , through the training of practice nurses in dietetics ; and , in such well organised practices , if only those patients with special problems are referred to hospital diabetic clinics .
2 She reviews her own changing perceptions in the light of a commitment to equality of opportunity for all learners .
3 Despite a commitment to curriculum entitlement ( FEU 1989 ) , institutions have commonly narrowed opportunities by the provision of separate courses or by restricting the participation of disabled students in a full range of general education classes .
4 The most notable examples were grouping , the practice of having a multiple curriculum focus in teaching sessions , with different groups working in different curriculum areas , and the kinds of teacher-pupil interaction associated with a commitment to discovery learning .
5 Numbers of tutors with a commitment to language courses varied considerably .
6 Mind you , common sense , a rounded personality , tenacity and integrity , coupled with a commitment to community activities over and beyond work are the theme of the various references past employers have given me .
7 Speaking to a gathering at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations , Bush stressed , however , that the Soviet Union 's full membership in the world economic community depended on a programme of political reform including a commitment to freedom for the Baltic states , a return of the four Kurile islands to Japan , an end to Soviet military aid to Cuba and deeper cuts in defence expenditure .
8 Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state .
9 These were both essentially rabbiting dogs but the terrier really served a dual purpose thanks to a commitment to ground vermin .
10 the scheme was linked to a commitment to prefabrication ( with implicit promises of speed and economy ) and to the architectural ideals of the Modern Movement an represented in the Karl Marx Hof and other Viennese estates .
11 If this cleaving or oneness is actually to occur , it must be activated by a commitment to intimacy , not just physical intimacy but spiritual and psychological intimacy as well .
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