Example sentences of "[verb] to [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most carers were aged 45–64 ; and six out of ten were committed to looking after the dependant for at least 50 hours a week . |
| 2 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 3 | They probably stayed that night at Watchet , and there , tradition records , the first lines of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ were committed to writing at the Bell Inn , within sight of the ships in Watchet 's decaying harbour . |
| 4 | The United States was , at last , firmly committed to helping in the maintenance of the stability of the Middle East , though British commitments to the Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf and the Aden Protectorates were undiminished . |
| 5 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 6 | This was not very difficult ; the Spanish still did not recognize other colonies in the Caribbean and the old rule of ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ went on , so that West Indian governments could still recruit on an official basis men who were committed to fighting against the Spanish whether the governments thought they were at war or not . |
| 7 | Also , being human , Huy regretted that he was now committed to working with the policeman . |
| 8 | Status : West European council for the co-ordination of regional defence policy , committed to working with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 9 | Ideologically you may be committed to working for the NHS . |
| 10 | The names of taxa must be adhered to according to the international rules , but it is permissible to anglicise the endings , so that members of the superfamily Trichostrongyloidea in the example above may also be termed trichostrongyloids . |
| 11 | The advantage of heading towards the shore has to weighed against the possible disadvantage of lighter winds closer to shore because of the slowing effect of the land . |
| 12 | Thus Conventions on conflicts of laws fall within the prerogative of the Hague Conference , matters relating to shipping within the domain of the IMO and the CMI , proposals concerning air transport within that of the ICAO and IATA , and those affecting intellectual property within the remit of WIPO . |
| 13 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 14 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 15 | He emphasized that respectable ratepayers would object to contributing to the cost of giving artificial security to their neighbours ' looseness of life . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 17 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 18 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 19 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 20 | Farmers still have the problem of overcoming the stigma which all too often young people attach to working on the land . |
| 21 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 22 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 23 | Potential recruits often object to joining on the grounds that they are uninterested in politics . |
| 24 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 25 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 26 | The case of street robbery is particularly interesting , because this is commonly the most sensitive area for registering public concern about crime and violence , itself reflected in the fact that robbery-with-violence was the only common offence for which an adult offender could be sentenced to whipping before the abolition of corporal punishment in 1948 . |
| 27 | What about other people who has anyone on the basis of individuals that have come in here , do many individuals come in and actually have problems related to living in the flats ? |
| 28 | She is the first to admit that she was bitten by the Puppy Love bug from quite an early age — which stood her in good stead when it came to dealing with the opposite sex in later years . |
| 29 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 30 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |