Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 2 | Wimpol remains totally committed to supporting you in the development of your career and , through suitable training , to ensuring that you play a full part in the company 's continued growth . |
| 3 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 4 | We may want to make the point that if we are to be committed to doing something about the global warming of the ozone layer then we will need to say when we will do it by . |
| 5 | I am always fascinated to hear Liberals going on about resources being made available for defence , when they are committed to cutting them by 50 per cent . |
| 6 | The principal Opposition party is committed to cutting defence expenditure by a quarter , and the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) is committed to cutting it by a half . |
| 7 | The State Department 's reply [ KP 125 ] was : " The Department assumes that the 28,000 Cossacks in question are Soviet Nationals and , if so , no objection is seen to delivering them to the Russian forces in accordance with the terms of the Yalta agreement . |
| 8 | It was the nearest he had ever got to saying something to his son-in-law that was neither untrue nor offensive . |
| 9 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |
| 10 | It was started as a response to the existing state education system in place under apartheid , in which ‘ black children were educated in a way geared to keeping them as a docile , compliant labour force ’ , according to a colleague of the School . |
| 11 | It is all geared to forcing us into zero sum games . |
| 12 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |
| 13 | This would generate the extra revenue needed to pay the higher cost of replacing nuclear energy with biomass , compared to replacing it with fossil fuels . |
| 14 | What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab ? |
| 15 | Indeed , the range of skills which actuaries develop nowadays are ideally suited to fitting them for corporate management in general . |
| 16 | He was driven to drawing them inside barns , where the light was too poor for painting . |
| 17 | He is reduced to wooing her with honeyed words on behalf of his handsome but tongue-tied young friend . |
| 18 | A quarto is likely to need all of twelve inches , a folio correspondingly more , if you are not to be reduced to laying it on its side . |
| 19 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 20 | Having got rid of his shirts in this way , he was reduced to replacing them with crude garments made out of sacking . |
| 21 | It is quite evident that the majority feel that Medau Blue should be retained for use on special occasions thought you are not nearly so favourably disposed to wearing it in class — at least in its present form ! |
| 22 | These exceptions are important and consideration should be given to inserting them in trust documents although this seems to be rarely done in practice . |
| 23 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 24 | If the post is a pivotal one , consideration should even be given to advertising it in the local press and community newspapers . |
| 25 | By the time Oldfield and his bride-to-be at last arrived , Joan and Richard had fallen to speculating which of the marriages would end in divorce . |
| 26 | That twist is not limited to lumbering us with a sinful nature . |
| 27 | In consequence , the reader 's task is limited to deciding which of the voices work , in terms of authenticity , plausibility and interest , and which do not . |
| 28 | ‘ In the meantime I see you 've reverted to addressing me as Penry . |
| 29 | The good thing about having the machines on the vehicle are that we can give him that electric shock as opposed to taking him to the hospital to have that electric shock . |
| 30 | Traditional grammar The teaching of grammar through analysis , as opposed to teaching it through analogy ( compare the audio-lingual method and the grammar translation method ) . |