Example sentences of "towards more [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you will agree that cycling is beneficial to the environment and that trends towards more sustainable forms of transport should be encouraged . |
| 2 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 3 | The documents and articles look towards more democratic forms of communication and outline a new vision for the 21st century . |
| 4 | The extent to which the momentum towards more efficient use of energy for heat had slackened since 1985 had surprised them . |
| 5 | In local government in particular we have seen substantial moves towards more decentralised forms of service provision in terms of area offices , or neighbourhood forums . |
| 6 | From this point onwards , Piaget 's account progresses towards more complex forms of symbolism through which the adult 's conceptual apparatus and capacity for cognitive representation are fully developed . |
| 7 | Europe , emerging in the late eleventh century , after an era of wars and invasions during the " Dark Ages " , to a period of relative peace , began to look towards more settled forms of government . |
| 8 | Although often associated with structuralism , semiotic analysts is involved in the details of representation and signification , while structuralism proper eschewed this concern with a drive towards more abstract models of cognition and culture . |
| 9 | Social pressure towards more sensitive treatment of nature is unlikely to abate whilst our destruction of what remains of nature so clearly continues . |