Example sentences of "commit ourselves [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ; |
| 2 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 3 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 4 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 5 | If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms . |
| 6 | We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate . |
| 7 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 8 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 9 | ‘ We committed ourselves to the City of Edinburgh initiative asking companies to set aside a suitable proportion of the cost of any development to commission new works of art . |
| 10 | He suggested that in the meantime we should visit the Arussi mountains ; this would enable us to assess our men and , if necessary , change some before we committed ourselves to the Danakil country . |
| 11 | We committed ourselves to the fight against terrorism . |
| 12 | We committed ourselves to arms control , disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year . |
| 13 | At British initiative , we committed ourselves at Maastricht to the further enlargement of the Community , starting with the EFTA countries . |
| 14 | For pity 's sake , before we commit ourselves to ‘ Stansted at Stanley ’ , let's pause and contemplate the costs and the consequences ! |
| 15 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 16 | It is not that once we know something we commit ourselves to it but that knowing something is itself a commitment . |
| 17 | In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined . |
| 18 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 19 | In particular we commit ourselves to working with other concerned institutions and individuals so that the African people 's human dignity and rights may be restored and preserved , and our leaders may be more accountable to a people whose conditions permit effective mobilisation . |
| 20 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 21 | If some project comes up during the course of the year , I would have thought that it might be appropriate to erm er cobble the name of centenary onto it , but I do n't really think that this year we just commit ourselves to something just because there 's a hundred years of parish government coming up . |
| 22 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 23 | Come that we might see you in the people of every race , and commit ourselves to the hope that we celebrate our life together in true community and justice . |
| 24 | We commit ourselves to the surgeon when we go into hospital for an operation ; we commit ourselves to the hairdresser , to the dentist and so on … |
| 25 | We commit ourselves to the surgeon when we go into hospital for an operation ; we commit ourselves to the hairdresser , to the dentist and so on … |
| 26 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 27 | The gift of the Holy Spirit is the seal of his part of the contract ; by committing ourselves to him we put our name to it too . |
| 28 | Erm you know we sort of seem to limp from one meeting to another without really committing ourselves to anything much . |
| 29 | By asserting it , however , we are also committing ourselves to a general conditional proposition of a standard kind . |
| 30 | What exactly are we committing ourselves to by making it ? |