Example sentences of "have [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 5 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 8 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Two moves are in progress that are likely to have reversed the slow move towards equality in the ownership of wealth . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 13 | During his time as Colonial Secretary he had established the measured steps towards independence for all Britain 's dependent peoples , the speed of which depended on the current state of development in each territory . |
| 14 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 15 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 16 | A series of legal rulings by the European Court of Justice and the House of Lords have pushed the British government towards the equalisation of retirement ages , if not pension ages . |
| 17 | There are other problems also : one is how to overcome the environmental objections and the contracting and technical failures which have so far stunted the growth of nuclear power in the UK , and another is how to keep up the momentum of conservation ( or energy efficiency improvements ) in the absence of the price increases which have proved the prime motivation towards energy saving . |
| 18 | The Danes are traditional dairy cattle breeders , but since the Second World War the dairy herds have followed the British trend towards fewer , larger units and a certain amount of land has become available for beef-rearing on a minor scale . |