Example sentences of "[verb] to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to an independent helicopter operator in Dubai and had cause to visit Egypt to inspect some Bell 212s for sale . |
| 2 | Social-purity legislation , such as the Industrial Schools Amendment Act of 1881 , which allowed children of prostitutes to be committed to an industrial school , and the 1885 Act , gave further powers to the police in their surveillance over women and children . |
| 3 | The short-term factors included the election in 1964 of a Labour government committed to an administrative reform of the institutions of government ; the appointment of a reforming minister — R H S Crossman — to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ; and the support for the idea of reform that he received from his senior civil servants ( Wood 1976 : 176–7 ) . |
| 4 | He repeated his belief that Mr Clinton was committed to an early settlement of the crucial GATT ( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ) talks which have stalled in Geneva . |
| 5 | This Government are committed to an effective policy of regional development , and I remind the hon. Member for Gateshead , East that much has been achieved over the past 10 years . |
| 6 | However , in practice insufficient weight is often given to this aspect of a recruitment policy , so that a firm committed to an internal promotion policy will have to make do with available talent for future promotions . |
| 7 | If an employer is committed to an agreed procedure or customary arrangement regarding redundancies , he should adhere to it . |
| 8 | The Labour administration elected to the Greater London Council in 1981 was committed to an extensive programme of economic intervention , to be supported by economic research on a larger scale than previously experienced in local government and with radically new approaches to generating and implementing policy . |
| 9 | He had a premonition that if he read it , he would find himself committed to an ever-widening circle of excommunications . |
| 10 | Squids grow to an immense size . |
| 11 | The case roles have been modified since Fillmore 's original definition to include restrictions such as these , but the restriction lists grow to an interminable length and the technique is still unable to recognise that two expressions ( e.g. ’ the woman ’ and ’ she ’ ) may refer to the same individual . |
| 12 | His voice was a husky purr of reassurance and the shapes of it in her head deepened to an indigo rock of security that she knew , without knowing how , was going to guard her . |
| 13 | Most newly independent governments were attracted to an agricultural strategy which thrust aside the supposed limitations of the existing agricultural system and adopted various forms of ‘ transformation ’ approach . |
| 14 | It seems that here , at least , we must appeal to an extra-terrestrial cause . |
| 15 | To help us draw a line between the incidental transfer of information , and communication proper , we may appeal to an important idea of the philosopher Grice ( 1957 ) . |
| 16 | We have to come to an arbitrary decision and then justify it |
| 17 | The conversation might go on to discuss the ownership of papers , and how to come to an agreeable settlement of the outstanding fees — a typical example of a problem facing many practitioners . |
| 18 | ‘ I would urge all those involved to come to an early decision to ensure that work can start quickly . ’ |
| 19 | Yet sterling 's stable performance , another slight easing of money market rates , rampant rumours of a favourable opinion poll and a firm performance among government issues all converged to tempt in the odd overseas bargain hunter , helping dealers convince themselves that the world is not about to come to an abrupt halt after all . |
| 20 | Premier Boris Yeltsin has announced that he still hopes to come to an amicable agreement with the Imperial representative and the board of GenTech . |
| 21 | Teachers and other educationalists can not be expected to come to an adequate understanding of recent trends in multicultural and anti-racist education , nor can they develop an independent critical judgement on recent controversies in this area , without some grasp of the deeper structural and ideological issues that underlie the racial dimension in education , politics and the economy . |
| 22 | For instance , a work of scholarship devoted to an esoteric subject will sell for a significantly higher price than a novel of approximately the same length and format by a popular writer . |
| 23 | Trevelyan was clearly excited by the prospect of a new Palace of Whitehall , as not only was a large part of his evidence to the Committee devoted to an eloquent description of a monumental scheme he envisaged , but he also produced another scheme for the area in 1866 . |
| 24 | Inflation for the system as a whole , which had fallen to 4 per cent a year in the first half of 1972 , rose to an annual rate of 7 per cent in the first half of 1973 . |
| 25 | But world inflation rose to an annual rate of 10 per cent in the second half of the year as previous materials price rises fed through to final goods markets . |
| 26 | Wall Street rose to an all-time high but ended the week 1.9% down as hopes of a cut in American interest rates faded . |
| 27 | Luke 's voice dropped to an answering purr . |
| 28 | A friend of the late Giovanni Falcone , one of Italy 's martyrs in its fight against the Mafia , Baltasar ‘ Superjudge ’ Garzon is the closest Spain has to an anti-Mafia crusader . |
| 29 | Sadly Walter L Jacob & Co Ltd , described in this context by The Observer as perhaps the " closest the UK has to an American-style boiler room operation ! has not been the only licensed dealer to recruit clients in this way . |
| 30 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |