Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] itself to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour has committed itself to a wide range of civil-liberties legislation and constitutional reform when it returns to government , to counter what its Deputy Leader , Mr Hattersley , has described as the vulnerability of traditional freedoms to the dual threat of ‘ legal restriction and a cynical partnership between Government and private enterprise ’ . |
| 2 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 3 | We know perfectly well that the Labour party has committed itself to an additional £35,000 million of public spending and no capping on local authority expenditure . |
| 4 | In 1931 he stated : the moment the responsibilities of any community , particularly in the field of social and economic questions , are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington , then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 6 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 7 | If the book wins , it will control the character and try to deliver itself to a powerful follower of Slaanesh . |
| 8 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 9 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 10 | ( Italy had committed itself to a smaller margin of fluctuation within the EMS in January 1990 — see p. 37198 . ) |
| 11 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 12 | That does address itself to a real evil , the grossly excessive creation of credit , but not in the best way . |