Example sentences of "[verb] itself to [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may know that the Government has committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan by the end of this year , for submission to the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission . |
| 2 | The Tribunal noted that Ulster Bank has committed itself to remaining the major centre for development of Information Technology and notes the Bank 's assurance that it will expand and improve the facilities . |
| 3 | The ‘ new approach ’ Community legislation limits itself to setting the essential or basic standards and the detailed specifications that implement these standards are delegated to relevant European Standardisation bodies such as CEN ( European Committee for Standardisation ) or sectoral bodies as , for example , CENELEC ( European Committee for Electro-Techinal Standardisation ) for the building and electrical industry and ETSI ( European Telecommunications Standards Institute ) for telecommunications standards . |
| 4 | It will purchase the total range of care needed by local people with mental disorder and , meanwhile , the NHS will restrict itself to providing a psychiatric service for these individuals in whichever setting is most appropriate . |
| 5 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 6 | ‘ thought it best to confine itself to enunciating the guiding principle that , before the grant of nationality is generally recognised , there must be a genuine link between the ship and the State granting permission to fly its flag |
| 7 | Foreign assistance has taken some of the strain off the Jordanian authorities ; with Canada now pledging two point two million dollars in aid , and the European Community committing itself to sending a further three point seven million dollars in food aid . |
| 8 | Chissano and Dhlakama pledged ( i ) to guarantee conditions that would allow complete political freedom " in accordance with internationally recognized principles of democracy " ; ( ii ) to guarantee the personal security of all Mozambican citizens and all members of political parties ; ( iii ) to accept the role of the international community and particularly the UN in monitoring and guaranteeing the implementation of the general peace agreement , particularly the ceasefire agreement and electoral process ; ( iv ) to respect the principles contained in Protocol No. 1 [ see p. 38517 ] under the terms of which the government undertook not to adopt or apply laws which could conflict with agreements between the parties , while Renamo undertook to stop fighting and to behave as a political party ; ( v ) to respect political rights , with the government specifically committing itself to incorporating the various agreements and protocols into law [ see pp. 38517 ; 38565 ; 38804 ] ; and ( vi ) to complete an agreed agenda and sign a general peace agreement incorporating a ceasefire by Oct. 1 . |
| 9 | Where there 's lines that just lends itself to having a dry paint rubbed down it . |
| 10 | The growing interest of hardware manufacturers in real-time functionality was demonstrated only a short while ago with the Overture Esprit project , which has dedicated itself to developing a real-time operating system for both the production industry and telecommunications services . |