Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 2 | Surely , then , we can confine ourselves to exploring the syntactical properties of such expressions and leave the ontological and epistemological issues , temporarily at least , to one side ? |
| 3 | Unabashed , Nicholas dedicated himself to purging the Congress Kingdom of dissent . |
| 4 | No manufacturer has yet committed itself to using the Cosworth engine , which is expected to be fully ready for production by June . |
| 5 | The Provisional Government committed itself to recognizing the right of national self-determination and , in place of the old Tsarist governors , installed in the minority areas governing committees of local dignitaries and deputies of the relevant nationality to the national parliament , the Duma . |
| 6 | The government has , however , not committed itself to publishing the review and , Courtney added , it is unlikely to be published in its entirety as it may contain sharp judgements about the usefulness or effectiveness of some research activities . |
| 7 | The Tribunal noted that Ulster Bank has committed itself to remaining the major centre for development of Information Technology and notes the Bank 's assurance that it will expand and improve the facilities . |
| 8 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 9 | I must therefore confine myself to expressing the hope that the Law Commission might look at the subject to see whether there is in fact any good reason now for maintaining a rule which operates to defeat contractually agreed arrangements between the parties ( of which all successors in title are aware ) and which is capable of producing such an extraordinary result as that in the present case . |
| 10 | But both Mr Major and the recently appointed Irish Prime Minister , Albert Reynolds , have actively committed themselves to moving the Ulster problem forward . |
| 11 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 12 | Confronted by noble resistance and alarmed by foreign upheaval , Nicholas had shelved the issue and committed himself to upholding the status quo at home and abroad . |
| 13 | After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system . |
| 14 | The ‘ new approach ’ Community legislation limits itself to setting the essential or basic standards and the detailed specifications that implement these standards are delegated to relevant European Standardisation bodies such as CEN ( European Committee for Standardisation ) or sectoral bodies as , for example , CENELEC ( European Committee for Electro-Techinal Standardisation ) for the building and electrical industry and ETSI ( European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) for telecommunications standards . |
| 15 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 16 | Declaring that " corruption , indiscipline , mismanagement , tribalism , nepotism , injustice and thuggery " were rampant , the NPRC committed itself to returning the country to multiparty democracy in the " shortest possible time " . |
| 17 | The Thatcher government in particular , throughout its terms of office , repeatedly committed itself to cutting the burden of taxation , and thereby to increasing incentives and encouraging enterprise and initiative . |
| 18 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 19 | But in 1920 the economy began to decline , unemployment rose and the government committed itself to following the advice of the Cunliffe Committee to return to the gold standard by 1925 . |
| 20 | On Nov. 27 , following direct talks brokered by the UN , dos Santos and Savimbi issued the " Namibie Declaration " in which they committed themselves to accepting the Bicesse Peace Accord and implementing a ceasefire , and to a continuing UN presence in the country . |
| 21 | They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] . |
| 22 | What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation . |
| 23 | But then let us add that sometimes , in the very depth of his love , he ( sic ) may have to resign himself to reading the text and , knowing what he knows , feeling what he feels , passing on in silence . |
| 24 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not afraid of the dark , ’ she said , ‘ But I 'm certainly not going to resign myself to spending the night in here . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ thought it best to confine itself to enunciating the guiding principle that , before the grant of nationality is generally recognised , there must be a genuine link between the ship and the State granting permission to fly its flag |
| 27 | The President also announced that he would form a transitional government of " national union " as early as January 1991 , which would seek to " strengthen state machinery " and " devote itself to restoring the ethics of the civil service . " |
| 28 | Reconciling yourself to making the final decision can take a long time and be very painful . |
| 29 | A durian dilettante is a breed apart : there are even special clubs which devote themselves to following the durian season round the entire archipelago — feasting and waxing lyrical on the fruit 's narcotic delights . |
| 30 | In view of these deficiencies , it was hardly surprising that the reformers who centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich addressed themselves to transforming the courts very soon after Alexander II ascended the throne . |