verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be committed to a cause (= believe in an aim very strongly )
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We are committed to the cause of racial justice.
be committed to an ideal (= believe in it strongly )
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Everyone in the party is committed to the same socialist ideals.
carry out/commit an assault
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She admitted to committing the assault.
commit (a) crime
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Most crime is committed by young men.
commit (a) murder (= murder someone )
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Whoever had committed these murders had planned them carefully.
commit a sin
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He has committed a grave sin.
commit a theft
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Detectives took us to the place where the theft had been committed.
commit a violation
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Several soliders were suspected of committing human rights violations.
commit an act formal (= do something wrong or illegal )
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Anyone committing an illegal act deserves to be punished.
commit an error formal (= make an error, especially a serious one )
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He knew he had committed a grave error of judgement.
commit an offence (= do something that is against the law )
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He had committed the offence of dangerous driving.
commit excesses (= do very bad or immoral things, especially hurting or killing people in an unacceptable way )
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The excesses committed by a small number of soldiers have ruined the regiment's good name.
commit sth to memory formal (= make yourself remember something )
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I've already committed his name to memory.
commit suicide (= kill yourself )
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Most people who commit suicide have had depressive illnesses.
committed adultery
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She had committed adultery on several occasions.
committing treason
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Richter is accused of committing treason against the state.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
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Urban Programme cash totalling £700,000 is already committed to the scheme, due to start in the summer.
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It needed a two-sided commitment and, willingly or not, Niall was already committed , to another woman.
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By now I have already committed myself to so much, he wrote.
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By the time Gloucester arrived in London the council had already committed a considerable amount of money.
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The Labour party is fully committed to health promotion and prevention care.
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She makes her evolution, from neutral to fully committed , a credible, touching experience.
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Yet most existing fundholders find they do not have the available money as their management fees are fully committed within their practices.
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Throughout life you need to be fully committed to each course of action.
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But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed .
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But never fully committed to the program, the government soon abandoned it.
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We are fully committed to reinvigorating the economy of west Cornwall.
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Dan Holloway how-ever was fully committed to the effort he led.
to
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He will resign if he is forced to accept an unrealistic budget he can not commit to.
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Himself, because alone of them all, he knew what he was committed to .
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And not quite in keeping with the positive approach she was committed to .
■ NOUN
act
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It is often said that an assault can be committed only by an act and that an omission is not sufficient.
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On his eighteenth birthday, his parents had believed it necessary to commit the act that would decisively save their only child.
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On 21 September 1982 Mr. Dennis committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice.
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For a submariner, he had committed a grievous act -- mixing alcohol with duty.
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He had committed an act of bankruptcy and a petition had been presented.
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What is the price tag for keeping decent, nonviolent people from having to commit the very act that Davis committed?
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The Court of Appeal allowed the appellant's appeal against conviction of committing an act of gross indecency.
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He was eventually convicted of committing an injurious act , a misdemeanor, police said.
acts
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Now that the partisans were well organized in the Province of Parma they committed many acts of sabotage.
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The decisions of individual men and women to commit bad acts is what causes crime.
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Deny the humanity of any man - even when he commits inhuman acts - and you diminish your own.
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Dark Elf raiders have committed innumerable acts of piracy.
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Male speaker Saboteurs are people who commit wilful acts of damage.
crime
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Is it not astounding that half of all crime in Britain is committed by people under the age of 21?
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It is by now well known that about half of all violent crime is committed by and against blacks.
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And works of art to create, and games to play, and centuries to remember, and crimes to commit .
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Patsy Kensit plays a clairvoyant cop who sees in her mind bits and pieces of crimes before they are committed .
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Lawyers said there was confusion about the charges and the crime committed .
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They have no evidence a crime was committed .
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Of course, corporate crime is actually carried out by individuals; organisations can not themselves plan and commit crimes.
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Yet investigators maintained that a crime had been committed and Moon should be held accountable.
error
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He had committed a grave error in lending his approval, together with that of the Church he represented, to the Exhibition.
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He watched Offerman commit 139 errors , including a major-league high 35 last season in 115 games.
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On this point it seems that the Literary Digest Poll and others committed two errors .
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He also committed 27 errors -- second in the league -- but many were due to inexperience.
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He also commits the cardinal error of underestimating his audience.
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Gagne has committed 40 errors over the last three seasons.
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Between them the two women served 27 double-faults and committed 124 unforced errors .
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And he committed just 15 errors .
government
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The government is committed to reducing sulphur dioxide emissions by 60 percent to their 1980 levels by 2005.
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In 1980, however, the government committed itself to meeting standards by 1985.
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Funds from government departments committed to trade and employment fuel their conversations.
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The Government are committed to sustaining the momentum of parliamentary reform.
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For a government committed to radical change, they had a number of disadvantages.
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Mr. Maclean I assure the hon. Gentleman that the Government are committed to a policy of informative labelling.
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The government was committed to further major reductions in defence spending.
memory
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However, invariably, it is not only bad experiences of learning that are committed to memory .
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The former I destroyed before entering the port of Vera Cruz, having committed it to memory .
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In theory this sounds quite unrealistic but the worker is reassured that none of these topics need be committed to memory .
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The second man looked hard at Jean-Pierre, as if committing his face to memory .
murder
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I had gritted my teeth during the tales of murder and mayhem committed by drunken hoodlums from north Belfast.
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The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder , committed suicide by taking poison.
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Jay Kelly Pinkerton was sentenced to death in Texas for a murder committed when he was 17 years old.
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Last week Virginia executed two young men, both in their 20s, for murders that they committed when they were 17.
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They would never forget that for a week they had imagined the act of murder had been committed .
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Somewhere down in the depths, he felt certain, lay Marius Steen's gun, thrown away after the murder was committed .
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Lamech takes two wives, and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain.
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There's only a possibility that the two murders were committed by the same person.
offence
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A youngster may have committed the offence only once.
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Did W commit an offence under section 1?
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So long as the defendant does not communicate his intention, he commits no offence .
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Any civil servant who talks to his or her spouse about work would be committing an offence .
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In three months he hasn't committed a single offence .
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If defendants decide to commit an offence , they must take the consequences.
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Have X, Y or Z committed an offence ?
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The question is: have they on those facts alone committed an offence ?
offences
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But a constable in uniform may arrest anybody found committing any of the offences under section 12, 13 and 14.
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She said that he committed both offences to feed his addiction to gaming machines.
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Two who were released, were later recalled, even though they had committed no further offences .
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Will people admit to having committed criminal offences , even if they are guaranteed confidentiality?
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Let us think rather of a twin track approach, in which custody is reserved for those who commit serious offences .
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He had denied committing the offences involving children between the ages of four and 14 between January 1989 and June 1992.
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It may be added, of course, that most of those who drink alcohol do not commit offences of violence thereafter.
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He said he'd committed two awful offences .
paper
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The writer appeared to have been so anxious to commit the message to paper that the conventional opening had been dispensed with.
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He has three other plays sketched out in his mind but not yet committed to paper .
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In another informative paper , Heaney argues that special collection development policies should be committed to paper.
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The decision was probably being committed to paper at this very moment, so that was that.
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The dynamic is lost in the process of committing them to paper .
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Unlike many top executives, he doesn't believe in committing thorny issues to paper .
person
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We also know how deeply a person is committed to certain intellectual concepts.
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He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival.
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The killing of children, deliberately targeted-what kind of a person could commit such an act?
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They had wide powers to arrest persons suspected of committing such crimes as theft, burglary, and serious assault.
rape
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Over 20 days, Jacobs methodically developed his theory that Davis kidnapped Polly with the intent of committing rape .
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Juveniles 15 and older committing rape or forcible assault are named prominently in offenses automatically transferred to adult court.
sin
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Luke O'Malley had committed the unforgivable sin - he had informed on his friends.
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I, too, must have lived several lives through the ages and committed enormous sins .
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The possibility that he had committed a sin but no murder.
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Father Maier, he continued, was committing that sin .
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It's fairly entertaining to watch but commits the cardinal sin of not identifying individual players.
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Gough has not committed a heinous sin in Kurunegala.
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She has committed several sins , greed and gluttony being high on the list.
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Or the image of the Fallen, those who have committed the sin of idolatry?
suicide
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Finally, she told him if he sent her home she'd commit suicide .
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She was careful to die alone so that no one could be accused of helping her commit suicide .
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He did not commit suicide because he had no patent and had reaped no rewards.
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Of those who commit suicide , 60 percent suffer from clinical depression, Quinnett claims.
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A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide .
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She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.
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For almost two years detectives maintained that Mr Menson, who had a history of mental illness, had committed suicide .
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A friend of mine, Peter Quigley, committed suicide last night.
trial
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The defendants were committed for trial at Mold Crown Court.
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Later, these too were taken away, and it could only commit for trial by a jury.
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Read in studio A man charged with murdering his wife more than twenty years ago has been committed for trial .
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Today at Cirencester magistrates court, John Gore, bearded with a long ponytail, was committed for trial at Crown court.
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Read in studio A man accused of dumping poisonous waste in a brook has been committed for Crown Court trial .
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Despite that conflict of evidence for the Crown, the case was committed for trial .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brady committed a series of brutal murders.
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Detectives believe that the crime was committed at around 7.30 pm.
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It now seems likely that Mason was sent to prison for an offence he never committed.
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Most violent crimes are committed by young men under the age of 25.
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She later claimed that she did not realize she was committing an offense.
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The murder must have been committed between 7 and 10pm.
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The state of Florida will commit $58 million for a new research facility.
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Women commit far fewer crimes than men.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And when the priest came to commit poor old Eddy's body to the flames, Dyson felt something else.
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Baldwin, the poor schlemiel, is talked into committing a murder, which he botches badly.
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But she is not committed to this place anymore.
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Fernando wasn't married but he was committed.
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They have no evidence a crime was committed.
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What he ought to be sorry about is the crime Archer committed.
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What is the price tag for keeping decent, nonviolent people from having to commit the very act that Davis committed?