Example sentences of "a commitment to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : Labour does not need a commitment to proportional representation in order to scoop most of the centre ground at the next general election . |
| 2 | MR ASHDOWN , the Liberal Democrat leader , stressed yesterday that without a commitment to proportional representation in the Queen 's Speech the Liberal Democrats would seek to vote it down and force a second general election . |
| 3 | Mutual support mechanisms have helped to maintain the drive to diversify into new growth sectors and have facilitated a commitment to long-term market expansion . |
| 4 | In the present context the time-inconsistency problem suggests that the optimal combination of unemployment and inflation can only be achieved if there is some effective restraint to prevent the government from cheating on a commitment to zero inflation . |
| 5 | Therefore writing on Japan in English operates , to a significant degree , within an agenda set by a liberal democratic tradition involving a commitment to private property , the role of market competition , citizenship rights and representative democratic institutions . |
| 6 | Thus , while virtually all schools wished to increase access to a better-stocked library in a way which would stimulate RBL , only 14 of the schools specified existing or intended extension activities in their plans , while nine made reference to the need to establish or develop display areas , and a similar number expressed a commitment to associated inservice developments . |
| 7 | In this article we take a look at how a commitment to Total Quality Management is helping Noble Metals at Royston to grow in what continues to be a depressed marketplace … |
| 8 | This is because a commitment to representative government and loyalty to democratic institutions are themselves fundamental constituents of our collective political morality . |
| 9 | While the Act reiterates a commitment to parental involvement ( Sandow , Stafford and Stafford 1987 ) nevertheless many parents have felt excluded from decision-making processes and have formed alliances to challenge local authorities and to press for change . |
| 10 | A commitment to armed force was stated unambiguously : |
| 11 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 12 | Finally , there needs to be a commitment to continuous improvement through development . |
| 13 | If you generally only go out as a treat , a commitment to healthy eating will mean that you want to choose dishes that build on the good work you have carried on at home . |
| 14 | They were to retain a commitment to sessional work at Powick , with the elderly population , under the reformed system . |
| 15 | What was needed , but what the Chancellor has failed to provide , was a commitment to major investment in the nation 's infrastructure . |
| 16 | Surely God is more aware than any of us that marriage involves two basically selfish sinners in a commitment to each other . |
| 17 | It spurs people into making a commitment to each other . |
| 18 | We find the process simultaneously tiring , frustrating and rewarding when , at the end of tussling with some problems , we reach a shared view and a commitment to that view , which is usually of a different order to that which we can achieve by any other means . |
| 19 | The result was ‘ peace and happiness ’ and a commitment to antislavery work . |
| 20 | I am not sure if I would still sing if I had a wife , because I think marriage is a commitment to one woman , and I have no right to go and sing to all those others . ’ |
| 21 | But Mr Ashdown , who is demanding a full-scale coalition , has so far rejected anything that Labour has offered , threatening to vote against a Queen 's Speech that does not include a commitment to electoral reform ; and Mr Kinnock has said that he has made no overtures — not even played the ‘ opening chords ’ — which would lead to a post-election pact . |
| 22 | He has already made clear that he will demand a commitment to electoral reform in the first Queen 's Speech of a new government as the price for Liberal Democrat support . |
| 23 | Labour moved some way towards electoral reform with the Plant Committee , but while Kinnock himself favours change , he feared that a commitment to electoral reform would split the party . |
| 24 | Those undertaking it will encounter an extent of diversity which they may find surprising , as well as numerous examples of local authority practice in which members , officers and advisers have successfully managed to reconcile their statutory responsibilities with a commitment to genuine partnership with teachers and parents . |
| 25 | A commitment to pensions means nothing if it is not matched by a commitment to low inflation . |
| 26 | Moss Green was a custom-built community school , with a commitment to multicultural education and a staff who were used to implementing innovations such as open-plan classrooms , and , more recently , an alternative curriculum for fourth and fifth years . |
| 27 | The range of books on this area of education has steadily grown and most local education authorities have some kind of equal opportunities policies which include a commitment to multicultural education . |
| 28 | A member for sixty-nine years of the Art Workers ' Guild , Frampton had inherited from his father a strong feeling for materials and a commitment to meticulous workmanship . |
| 29 | Such institutions are the envy of many Arab countries for they reflect a commitment to national identity that one will seek in vain in most parts of the Arab world . |
| 30 | It hastened the process by which the Labour Party developed into a unitary political party in alliance with the trade unions and with a commitment to parliamentary socialism and against authoritarian socialism . |