Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When was Froggy approached to caddie for Brian Harley ? ’ |
| 2 | It supposes that the community as a whole can be committed to principles of fairness or justice or procedural due process in some way analogous to the way particular people can be committed to convictions or ideals or projects , and this will strike many people as bad metaphysics . |
| 3 | Thomas Bacon was then brought to Stamford to face the charge of poisoning his mother and was committed to Lincoln for trial . |
| 4 | Although the party is committed to freedom of information and devolution , it is not interested in proportional representation which would revitalise the political system . |
| 5 | Front Uni de Liberation Kanak ( FULK , Yann Celene Uregei l. ) ; expelled from the FLNKS coalition in January 1990 ; Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front ( FLNKS , Paul Neaoutyine , pres. ) , a four-party coalition committed to independence for New Caledonia ; |
| 6 | This key point about the exchange of bank deposits must be committed to memory by readers as it forms a basis for understanding the nature of the foreign exchange market and operations of banks within it . |
| 7 | We have always been committed to programmes of investigation … and we always will be in the future . |
| 8 | There does seem to be a case , therefore , for some work in initial training to be based on a general language section or sub- department which is committed to presentation of language issues , and considering their relevance in schools and other institutions . |
| 9 | It remains by far the most convincing performance committed to disc by virtue of its natural pacing and brazen flair , which serve to underline the experimental nature of much of the content . |
| 10 | The ES is firmly committed to equality of opportunity for everyone . |
| 11 | This debate will continue to be the context in life of every person , including those committed to belief in God . |
| 12 | Iraq 's half-dozen Kurdish parties stopped fighting each other in 1987 to form the Kurdistan Democratic Front , committed to democracy for Iraq and autonomy for Kurdistan . |
| 13 | On the surrender of the abbey to the king 's commissioners in December 1539 , the buildings assigned ‘ to remain undefaced ’ were given into the custody of its former steward , Sir Edward Baynton , but all those ‘ deemed to be superfluous ’ were committed to Stumpe as Baynton 's deputy : they included the church , cloister , chapter house , dormitory , frater , and infirmary . |
| 14 | An alternative — and theoretically the more sound approach — is a ‘ demand-led ’ strategy in which general managers are committed to investment in development because they can see its importance . |
| 15 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 16 | The Dalai Lama had said on March 10 that unless China responded soon to his proposals made in June 1988 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg , he would consider himself not bound by the five-point peace plan , although he remained committed to negotiations with China . |
| 17 | There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions . |
| 18 | If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court . |
| 19 | On 11 May 1992 the wife , Frances Butler , gave notice to the husband , Robert Butler , to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court for breaches of an order dated 12 September 1991 prohibiting him from entering or visiting premises where she lived and from assaulting , molesting or harassing her . |
| 20 | But the next day the NIRC ordered three London dockers who had defied an order against blacking made on 12 June to be committed to prison for contempt of court . |
| 21 | In 1746 , for example , William Grant , who in spite of his seemingly humble occupation of carpenter was the son of an Inverness-shire laird , chose a particularly inconvenient moment to take leave from the service of the Hudson 's Bay Company and return to Scotland , for he was promptly committed to prison on suspicion of treason when he reached Scotland during the turmoil occasioned by the Jacobite Rising . |
| 22 | It is tempting to assume that those particularly committed to Language in Education would have replied , but there is no way of being sure about this . |
| 23 | This view is supported by the strong commitment of College staff ( 9 out of 13 institutions had 6+ staff with a prime commitment to language ) , whereas only 4 universities listed themselves as having even 1–2 people primarily committed to Language in Education . |
| 24 | The Trust is committed to training for work and we hope that the difficulties involved in funded training can continue to be tackled creatively in partnership with the TECs . |
| 25 | With this rate of adhesion set as 100% , only 2.5 ( 1 ) % ( mean ( 1 SD ) ) of the cells adhered to BSA in serum free medium after six hours . |
| 26 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 27 | Therefore , we shall be attracted to areas of research which seem interesting to us . |
| 28 | K. With the growth of trade and work in factories , more and more people have been attracted to cities like Bristol which now has a population of 388 000 . |
| 29 | The fragility of much of the industry attracted to Derry by government aid was shown by the Birmingham Sound Reproducers factory which was opened in the summer of 1967 , employing 1,800 of the abundant supply of cheap young labour ; by January 1968 it had closed down . |
| 30 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |