Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | carrying out , or contributing towards the cost of , research in relation to ancient monuments , historic buildings and conservation areas in England ; |
| 2 | A familiar human example is the habit of sitting up , or looking towards the door , when you wish to leave the room . |
| 3 | She did n't know anyone , could n't eat , drink or speak towards the end . |
| 4 | A more normal way of satisfying the prospective buyer 's concern that the vendor may not proceed is for the vendor to agree to pay or contribute towards the cost of the report if the matter does not proceed to completion for any reason not involving fault by the prospective buyer . |
| 5 | They must , in their own interests and in the interests of their pupils , ensure that their school is at or moving towards the ‘ open ’ end of the continuum . |
| 6 | Mechanical defect : The defence of any mechanical defect that caused or contributed towards the offence is normally good . |
| 7 | Students lie back in chairs with feet on the table or stretched towards the electric fire , and drift passively through the textbook . |
| 8 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 9 | You can get free NHS wigs and fabric supports or help towards the cost if you 're in one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 10 | or gravitate towards the pond , |
| 11 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 12 | Cutting round to the right and following the track northeastwards , I came down a path that led towards the Occupation Road via the Megger Stones . |
| 13 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 14 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 15 | Doreen and Silas were still where she had left them , making two shadowy figures in the moonlight , and , even as she watched , they moved in the direction of the road that led towards the highway . |
| 16 | Yes One o one of the elements that goes towards the four thousand four hundred |
| 17 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 18 | Whether anyone 's willing to be receptive to a music that is not as seriously , purgatively ‘ innovative ’ as the post-punk noise that veers towards the Rough Trade arena , not quite as vulnerably half-original as the music of this year 's Gig Of The Century bill ( Ratio , Teardrop , Echo ) . |
| 19 | Although biased towards the higher levels and urban areas , the quantitative development of education has been very significant . |
| 20 | He learned , too , how the soil became damper and less resonant as both species gradually abdicated before the tattered white willows which marched thirstily alongside the streams that tumbled towards the river . |
| 21 | One force that probed towards the plateau was destroyed , but the Italian threat remained . |
| 22 | An exoticism that points towards the transcendent — who knows ? |
| 23 | All that 's changed is the way the formula 's been applied , and the number of calls that counts towards the formula . |
| 24 | It was May 's enthusiasm for pottery , which he communicated by publication , and Bushe-Fox 's perception of its importance for dating deposits that helped towards the artefact-orientated reports so common in that first half of this century . |
| 25 | We camped about five kilometres north of Låddejåkkåstugan on the open moors by a stream that thundered towards the distant watershed from Virihaure . |
| 26 | In this hall we have good sound in all the seats , including those that look towards the conductor . |
| 27 | He had chosen a seat that faced towards the door , and he watched the young couples entering . |
| 28 | Rather than moving towards the much vaunted Japanese way of doing things , America is moving in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 30 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |