Example sentences of "devoted [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | What time there was free was devoted overwhelmingly to home and family life , including such home-based leisure pursuits as watching television . |
| 2 | True , her book is devoted mostly to the early characteristics of her subjects , the brief biographies she provides for them ending in their mid-twenties . |
| 3 | One that keeps recurring is that the Community to which we still belong remains an economic community , devoted only to economic objectives . |
| 4 | Then in September , when the Sadler 's Wells Ballet danced in Paris ( opening the day after the premiere of School for Nightingales ) , he added to his scrapbook , besides snapshots of Legerton , Powell and himself in the obvious tourist spots , a picture of two puppets ; he also pasted a picture of Marie Antoinette in the middle of a page otherwise devoted entirely to gargoyles from Nôtre-Dame . |
| 5 | Chapter 12 is devoted entirely to thinking about the causal issues at stake . |
| 6 | This special edition of OECD Economic Studies is devoted entirely to applications of economic analysis to agricultural policy questions . |
| 7 | One shop window in Covent Garden was devoted entirely to a display of this book , and it received coveted reviews in the quality press . |
| 8 | This , in turn , is part of an issue which will be devoted entirely to papers on typography . |
| 9 | A gallery named after Robert Mapplethorpe and devoted entirely to photography will be created on the fourth level of the new addition to the Frank Lloyd Wright building on Fifth Avenue . |
| 10 | Friedrich von Hayek 's early career was devoted entirely to economic theory . |
| 11 | One of these was devoted entirely to Hercules . |
| 12 | In order to keep things manageable , section 3.1 is devoted entirely to explaining the external constraint structure bearing on a plc , while section 3.2 provides the comparisons between plc 's and alternative institutions . |
| 13 | The third and fourth ( Honours ) years are devoted entirely to Chemistry . |
| 14 | The first two years are therefore spent in acquiring a broad background of Chemistry , Physics and Mathematics the third and fourth years are devoted entirely to Chemical Physics . |
| 15 | The third and fourth years are normally devoted entirely to honours work in Mathematics . |
| 16 | Waiting to go into hospital was devoted largely to the consideration of this strange disease that had so suddenly materialized from nowhere , secreted itself in my hitherto unglamorous , unblemished , unconsidered inside and now threatened me . |
| 17 | While exhibitions will be devoted largely to Rockwell works , curators plan to offer other shows by illustrators . |
| 18 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 19 | During World War I the Swindon works was devoted largely to the production of munitions under Churchward 's direction . |
| 20 | Unlike the previous exhibitions in the series , this is the first devoted not to a royal court 's culture but to a culture based on a city 's commercial strength . |
| 21 | He did not envisage the participation of representatives of the Afghan government in such a conference , which he emphasised would be devoted not to the status of Afghanistan but to ‘ terminating interference in Afghanistan ’ as a condition for restoring its character as a non-aligned state . |
| 22 | Popper described science as the greatest adventure in the world for it is an endless search for new ideas and it is devoted always to creativity . |
| 23 | Although the Revolutionary Command Council consisted exclusively of military men it was not devoted solely to military interests : Jallud , for example , was said to have strong support among the technocrats in the petroleum and development departments . |
| 24 | THIS BROCHURE IS DEVOTED SOLELY TO THE MAGIC world of the EURO DISNEYLAND Theme Park , located in the EURO DISNEY RESORT near Paris . |
| 25 | Her most important essay , ‘ The Enfranchisement of Women ’ ( 1851 ) , published under Mill 's name in the Westminster Review , follows in the same vein as her chapter in Principles of Political Economy , but is devoted solely to women 's rights . |
| 26 | Gunar Barthel , whose gallery is devoted mainly to the members of painters ' collectives , is showing a cross-section of works by its artists until 31 December . |
| 27 | St. Leonard 's Hospital was devoted mainly to the care of lepers but by the time of the Reformation , leprosy had largely disappeared from England . |
| 28 | This fascinating world is devoted mainly to inventors and visionaries throughout the ages . |
| 29 | The old Parkers Bookshop with its split-level gallery floors was the perfect location for the new shop ; the lower floor became the Poster Gallery selling the non-book materials and the upper floor was devoted mainly to books , though there is some integration of both . |
| 30 | Although devoted mainly to world current affairs in 1991 , the Almanac also contains some very interesting articles on topics such as history , geography , economics and agriculture . |