Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [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 | 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 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 4 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By taking over Thames , the firm has taken a big step towards becoming a powerhouse in British television . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 10 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 13 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 14 | The assassination may only have accelerated the inexorable drift towards partition . |
| 15 | I may have made an unconscious movement towards him because he gave me a last malevolent grin and disappeared into the crowd . |
| 16 | The mayor also outlined plans which , if implemented , would have gone a long way towards mopping up the demand for houses in Derry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You can congratulate yourselves on having taken a positive step towards ending the evil and pernicious practice of slavery ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Two moves are in progress that are likely to have reversed the slow move towards equality in the ownership of wealth . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | The opinion polls , which had shown a small move towards the Tories in the early months of 1982 , now showed a large and growing Conservative majority . |
| 29 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 30 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |