Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] towards " in BNC.

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1 Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality .
2 I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record .
3 He has acknowledged the Italian trend towards overtly sexy clothes by cutting flirty side slits on a curve in his short skirts and stitching a provocative little hitch into them .
4 Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’
5 And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem .
6 The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting .
7 In the past , Mrs Aquino has taken a conciliatory stance towards ambitious factions in her armed forces , but , instead of appeasing mutineers , this policy has stoked rebellion in the barracks .
8 By taking over Thames , the firm has taken a big step towards becoming a powerhouse in British television .
9 With 100 $500 grants already on their way to scientists working in Russia , the International Science Foundation ( ISF ) has taken the first step towards meeting its goal of helping to preserve research in the former Soviet Union .
10 LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year .
11 A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land .
12 Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver .
13 Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup .
14 The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition .
15 The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition .
16 I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd .
17 The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry .
18 Peter Scudamore is on record as saying that Sabin du Loir is one of the best horses he has ever ridden , and could have gone a long way towards towards justifying that high opinion but for falling in last year 's King George at Kempton when holding a healthy lead .
19 The maximum grant is £270 , and you will have to pay a fixed contribution towards the cost , up to a maximum of £15 .
20 Everybody in the region would have to pay a new tax towards a regional assembly based on Tyneside and dominated by Labour politicians .
21 ‘ You can congratulate yourselves on having taken a positive step towards ending the evil and pernicious practice of slavery ! ’
22 Delegates blocked the election of former ZSL Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Kazimierz Olesiak , as chairman of the newly named party , feeling he would have hindered the broader moves towards the reunification of the peasant movement , electing instead Jozef Zych .
23 They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience .
24 There was a public enquiry recently , and I 've got the Inspector 's report here , and in his report he says the Council claims to have adopted a positive approach towards gipsy site provision , but in my judgement there is no tangible evidence whatsoever of this .
25 This factor seems to have made a solid contribution towards forging the Iranian forces into a much more effective fighting machine than might have been expected in 1979 .
26 Two moves are in progress that are likely to have reversed the slow move towards equality in the ownership of wealth .
27 Nelson Mandela , president of the African National Congress , was in Harare as an observer at Mugabe 's invitation , and was said at his meetings with Commonwealth leaders outside the main conference , to have advocated a speedier progress towards the lifting of sanctions than previously .
28 Many of the heads had made an active move towards involving more people ( even all staff in one school ) in an attempt to make more staff aware of the need to plan finance as a ‘ whole-school issue ’ and to prioritise resource needs .
29 Throughout 1990 Lee had adopted a conciliatory approach towards relations with the mainland while nevertheless continuing to reject mainland China 's advocacy of the principle of " one country — two systems " as a basis for reunification , proposing instead the rival notion of " one country , two regions " .
30 I think its just an extreme form of friendship , you 've become extremely friendly with somebody and it can be kind , in love with your , with your girlfriend it do n't have to be in love with your boyfriend , you can have you know some body who 's a same sex and you 've got the same feelings towards them
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