Example sentences of "[verb] to an [adj] [noun] " 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 | That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If an employer is committed to an agreed procedure or customary arrangement regarding redundancies , he should adhere to it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had a premonition that if he read it , he would find himself committed to an ever-widening circle of excommunications . |
| 11 | Squids grow to an immense size . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it will get even worse next year as borrowing is expected to soar to an astonishing £44 billion . |
| 16 | It seems that here , at least , we must appeal to an extra-terrestrial cause . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | We have to come to an arbitrary decision and then justify it |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I would urge all those involved to come to an early decision to ensure that work can start quickly . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Premier Boris Yeltsin has announced that he still hopes to come to an amicable agreement with the Imperial representative and the board of GenTech . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Luke 's voice dropped to an answering purr . |
| 30 | 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 . |