Example sentences of "to commit themselves [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some candidates may indicate a clear reluctance to commit themselves at this stage and this is helpful in making the final decision about who best to appoint . |
| 2 | Lady Howe , chairman of the nationwide campaign and wife of the former foreign secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe , called on local employers to commit themselves to equal opportunities . |
| 3 | This means that they will recognise that they are not intended to commit themselves to all of the implicatures they had derived . |
| 4 | The following list is just a sample of new courses and schemes , many of which illustrate the way that the University is developing new ideas to meet the needs of people who want further training but who are not in a position to commit themselves to full-time study . |
| 5 | In the recent election , politicians of all shades seemed reluctant to commit themselves to higher spending on aid , and there is more talk nowadays about the west 's obligations to nations emerging from communist dictatorship in eastern and central Europe . |
| 6 | Until recently , volunteers in the CAB were required to commit themselves to four hours ' voluntary service per week . |
| 7 | Reluctant participators who start off with a limited range of interest and involvement in management are unlikely to find it easy to commit themselves to new and broader aims . |
| 8 | Most negative criticisms of the quality of search work were expressed verbally on home territory to the author ; relatively few clients were prepared to commit themselves to serious discontent on paper , even anonymously . |
| 9 | The White Paper of 1975 mentioned above had simply referred to the virtual impracticability of asking social service departments to commit themselves to major investment in a programme for mentally ill people . |
| 10 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 11 | The refusal of the members to commit themselves in controversial matters certainly made it possible to achieve uniformity , and to make a powerful contribution to the debate on curricular diversity . |
| 12 | Moscow tried to encourage the non-aligned states to commit themselves in this region to the ‘ gradual curtailment of distinct forms of military-political cooperation … the non-creation of new forms of multilateral and bilateral alliances , the non-adoption of military functions by non-military regional organisations ’ . |
| 13 | The climate in the classroom must be one where children feel that their ideas are valued so that they are willing to commit themselves in public . |