Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] commit to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 2 | They were , however , an all-White group , operating without directly involving parents and were generally committed to specialist care in the community . |
| 3 | One adviser and one professional development teacher questioned whether arts HMI were genuinely committed to cooperation across the arts implicit in the concept of an aesthetic domain within the curriculum . |
| 4 | They had been shocked by the ‘ reality ’ they had come across and were more committed to action . |
| 5 | Whilst Rowe and Lambert took exception to the then prevailing view that children should , and more important could , be returned to their own families , they were strongly committed to family care as the main form of substitute care for those children who could not return home . |
| 6 | As Coote himself protested , both men were privately committed to legislation but believed they could not involve the government on the issue . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , as far as is known , no written parchments have survived from the Minoan civilization , and it may be that the finest Minoan thoughts were never committed to writing . |
| 8 | The Labour Party and the Labour government were explicitly committed to planning , but what planning meant was not precisely defined or theoretically established [ Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 9 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After a while she shrugged her shoulders and said , ‘ You know , I do n't think I ever was really committed to Christianity . ’ |