Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] commitment to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently the Labour Party in Scotland is committed to no nuclear weapons on our soil , but shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown has given a firm commitment to Rosyth Dockyard for the refitting of Trident submarines . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Hubbard has made a big commitment to me and I 'd like to produce the goods for him first , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Business Post has shown a tremendous commitment to quality by taking this route . ’ |
| 4 | Peter Townsend has had a life-long commitment to the needs of the poor and the powerless , and his studies of the elderly ( 1957 ) and the poor ( 1979 ) are the result of that commitment . |
| 5 | Should any new applicants emerge from the ‘ Physical ‘ 86 ’ and ‘ Healthier Living Show ’ , we will accommodate them at the Stockwell Training Day on Saturday 4th October 1986 and hope to filter out those prepared to make a firm commitment to the course . |
| 6 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 7 | They believe that a degree of privacy and understanding is essential if Their Royal Highnesses are to provide a happy and secure upbringing for their children , while continuing to give a wholehearted commitment to their public duties . |
| 8 | The structures of Employee Involvement have only been accepted by salaried staff ; shopfloor unions have refused to make a formal commitment to the programme , which is regarded as contrary to the established contractual job-control orientation of workplace trade unions . |
| 9 | This meant adding a civil commitment to his existing military one and augmenting his staff from selected members of the civilian staff at Scotland Yard . |
| 10 | These latter actions highlight an important aspect of the MINSE approach , ie it is not necessarily concerned with changes of a technological nature , but with any that result in improvements to the problem situation ; furthermore , because of the continual participation of the people that the organisation depends on , it helps to ensure a firm commitment to those changes . |
| 11 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 12 | Members of the CSJ , the NILP , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Republican Clubs and private individuals worked together because they had developed a personal commitment to the association , and not because they were directed by any outside agency . |
| 13 | During interviews with journalists during March Prince Saad invariably answered questions concerning Kuwait 's future political system with a reference to the October 1990 " popular congress " in Saudi Arabia , at which the Amir had made a vague commitment to opposition leaders to restore the 1962 Constitution [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 14 | Opportunities for promotion once I have made a clear commitment to the work . |
| 15 | I have made a clear commitment to the House today that , because of representations from Members on both sides of the House , the renewable energy advisory group will fully assess how best to develop renewable energy from Scotland . |
| 16 | I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper . |
| 17 | ‘ Most importantly of all , we have got to increase the quality and the quantity of skills training and we have to make a new commitment to education . ’ |
| 18 | And those who take part in groups have to show a parallel commitment to working within the spirit of the process ; putting as much energy into listening as in talking , staying on task , collaborating rather than competing in the pursuit of common objectives . |