Example sentences of "to be devoted to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last exhibition in Britain to be devoted to the work of Rouault was held at the Tate Gallery in 1966 . |
| 2 | The Fondation Gianadda has announced that it is mounting the largest exhibition to be devoted to the work of Dubuffet since the Basel show in 1970 . |
| 3 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 4 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 5 | It was intended to produce a secure annual income of £17 , of which £10 was to be devoted to the salary of the schoolmaster-priest in Stockport and £4 6 8d to the priest at the chapel in Longdendale . |
| 6 | Credo-Bit ‘ 92 was the first conference to be devoted to the application of computers to theology and the Church . |
| 7 | This was not made explicit to the Russians , since more attention had to be devoted to the logistics of deploying American forces in Japan and Korea when the war ended . |
| 8 | The religious belief of the time requires at least a substantial part of his property to be devoted to the good of his soul . |
| 9 | Among new measures ( i ) a new " tax exempt special savings account " would be introduced from January 1991 ; and ( ii ) the rate of pool betting duty would be reduced for a five-year period to release funds to be devoted to the improvement of safety and conditions at football grounds [ for April 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster see p. 36597 ] . |
| 10 | On 5 January the Metropolitan Museum will be opening a newly renovated gallery to be devoted to the display of prints , drawings and photographs , to be known as the Robert Wood Johnson Jr . |
| 11 | Since it is crucial to achieve as much independence and detachment as practically possible , much attention will have to be devoted to the creation of the right institutional conditions . |
| 12 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |