Example sentences of "a commitment to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means a commitment to every figure in it , a commitment to taking a risk to achieve the budgeted outputs . |
| 2 | This does not involve a commitment to a notion of a politics of consumption à la Gorz or Saunders . |
| 3 | On his discussions with Front-Bench Members , in the absence of a commitment to a referendum , will he ensure that , at least on this side of the House , there is a free vote ? |
| 4 | It is clear , given all these factors , that too early a commitment to a phoneme 's identity would be disastrous . |
| 5 | A call for a year 's freeze on settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ( with the exception of Jerusalem and the Jordan valley ) was adopted as part of the party 's platform , as was a commitment to a repeal of laws outlawing " contacts with terrorist organizations [ which included the Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO ] " . |
| 6 | He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs . |
| 7 | It is also a commitment to a target of annual improvement in the quality of everything they do . |
| 8 | Formed by the merger of Kim 's Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) and the small dissident Party for New Democratic Alliance , the new party 's platform was similar to that of the PPD ; it included a commitment to a market economy , to independent diplomacy and to the restoration of morality within the political sphere . |
| 9 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , has proposed a tough set of targets for more than 300 environmental initiatives and is pushing for a commitment to a number of green taxes . |
| 10 | It should be evident to arty thinking individual that the problems facing our Planet at this point in time are the results of a commitment to a science and a philosophy based on erroneous assumptions about the true nature of reality , and that these assumptions are the products of a mentality conditioned to seeing only the separation , the apara , between all things , rather than the unity . |
| 11 | It is a commitment to a set of practical arrangements that should not for a minute outlive its usefulness . |
| 12 | Even having made a commitment to the climb , the option of retreat is always open if you sense the temperature is too high or the snow conditions dangerous . |
| 13 | I 'd made a commitment to the Branch Secretaries and to the Representatives that there will be a full Representatives Conference of which those proposals will be debated and discussed . |
| 14 | Jackson ( 1973 : 145 ) shows that these interests were hidden by the demands of style , as in the semi-detached properties which employed a basic frame but added a spurious individuality on the façade in order to make the house more attractive to prospective buyers , or the modernist-style buildings , which proclaimed their scientific nature to the degree that elements of the internal construction which would not normally have been visible were externalized onto the façade to display a commitment to the appropriation of new technologies . |
| 15 | The parties will want a commitment to the buy-out as soon as possible after the commercial negotiations have been completed . |
| 16 | Rather , your problem is one of why you find it difficult to make a commitment to the relationship . |
| 17 | It allows business people and those in higher education to demonstrate an interest and a commitment to the work of young people in schools . |
| 18 | The WTA like the Holiday Fellowship was rooted in a commitment to the work ethic and the progressive movement . |
| 19 | In its inception and philosophy the WTA embodied national anxieties over the future stability of Europe , stating in its objectives a commitment to the promotion of a lasting international peace through the ideals of the newly formed League of Nations . |
| 20 | It requires a commitment to the art of loving and experiencing feeling that many women but few men are prepared to make . |
| 21 | All have a commitment to the company 's continued success . |
| 22 | He did not express , however , a commitment to the continuation of a multiparty system . |
| 23 | Such a task for sociology may appear reasonable and innocuous , particularly in societies which embrace a commitment to the principle of using knowledge for practical purposes and not to any principle of knowledge for knowledge 's sake' . |
| 24 | The main outcome of the meeting was a commitment to the principle that the CSCE should have a peacekeeping capability . |
| 25 | Under the leadership of Hugh Gaitskell , the Labour Party was dominated by a " revisionism " that edged away from socialism and dropped a commitment to the nationalisation of private industry . |
| 26 | One could only hope that they would ; at any rate , they were a relatively safe form of experimentation in power sharing which , unlike a commitment to the development of parliamentary institutions , could if necessary be abandoned . |
| 27 | And my plea would be that we do everything we possibly can and that 's why I found the quotation from scripture in this section so apposite , that we do everything we possibly can in grace and love and truth to help people to enter into a commitment to the ministry of the whole people of God . |
| 28 | But the essential conservatism of UDC thinking is revealed in the fact that , apart from a footnote on women 's suffrage , the only addition made to a platform written within weeks of the outbreak of war was a commitment to the defence of free trade . |
| 29 | Now , they want to make a commitment to the child they handed back . |
| 30 | He added that £10m had been invested in equipment and there was a commitment to the future ; growing export markets , particularly in Japan , were being exploited and the quarry would be Bethesda 's main employer for some time . |