Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian nationalism , an official ideology in the late Tsarist period and still very strong today , helped to create an attitude towards the West which combined an admiration for its prosperity and efficiency with a deep contempt for its petty-mindedness and commercialism : a ‘ peculiar amalgam of love and hate ’ , as Isaiah Berlin has described it , combining intellectual respect and envy with emotional suspicion , hostility and contempt . |
| 2 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 3 | Sec. knows that he has made a step towards a quorum on the next occasion . |
| 4 | In addition , the marker has responded as master-craftsman to apprentice , so to speak : he knows what a court report ought to be like , and so has helped the pupil-writer towards that understanding , and has directed his attention to the part where the reader was confused . |
| 5 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , You are a contemptible girl to tell such mischievous lies about a master who has shown every care towards you . |
| 6 | In the 1980s , the economic recession has produced a trend towards takeovers and mergers in the international record industry . |
| 7 | The World Bank board has approved a loan towards Chile 's Pangue dam project , even though the project has not received the full environmental assessment required under the bank 's operating guidelines . |
| 8 | Finally , in its most recent phase of operation , the agency has shifted the emphasis towards self-help models , where the SDA supports attempts by local communities ( including both the public and private sectors ) to initiate and to effect local economic development programmes . |
| 9 | It was possible that these men were nothing but a strong feint designed to draw the allies towards Charleroi while the real French thrust , fuelled by the Emperor 's presence , attacked twenty-five miles to the west at Mons. |
| 10 | As one economist puts it , the cost of this form of monetarism ’ is ‘ the erosion of local democracy which has accompanied the move towards greater centralized control of public spending decisions . |
| 11 | Part of this new regulation has involved a shift towards central rather than local control . |
| 12 | Not entirely in line with the Waldegrave 's White Paper , the DTI has announced a shift towards exploiting existing technologies more fully at the expense of supporting new technologies . |
| 13 | Firstly , just by supplying paradigm instances of high and low art , he has gone no way towards showing that there is not an area of genuine indeterminacy in between . |
| 14 | Members of the European Commission [ EC ] have reached an agreement to control and reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and the UK has taken a step towards this with new legislation governing all industrial processes [ See page 5 ] . |
| 15 | He has to pay a £1,000 towards the costs of going to Spain , but because of training ca n't work full-time . |
| 16 | A party congress in January 1991 was required to give final approval to the changes , designed to move the party towards social democracy and to increase its electoral support . |
| 17 | The concern with consensus , and the desire of national railway management and union leaders to control industrial action , has reinforced the tendency towards centralization in collective bargaining . |
| 18 | The EC has suspended a grant towards restocking the Pyrenees with eagles and vultures because of fears of the roads ' impact on the birds . |
| 19 | Other factors seemed to encourage a movement towards peace with which both kings appeared to sympathise . |
| 20 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 21 | Then imagine pulling the curve towards the tangent ( as shown in figure 11.13 ) . |
| 22 | His wife 's beauty , little adorned , seemed to draw the lamplight towards her : it shone on the latticework of her sleeves and the exact and regular folds that defined the slender bones of her body . |
| 23 | A gradual shift towards a broadly social democratic position is just what you would expect to accompany a move towards a mass system . |
| 24 | Darwin 's ‘ tree ’ of evolutionary relationships had a radiating pattern of divergent branches so that no single branch could be said to represent the goal towards which all the others were moving . |
| 25 | The family seemed to have a bias towards pink . |
| 26 | Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov , the KGB chairman , made an unscheduled nationwide television broadcast on Dec. 11 in which he pledged that KGB troops would do their utmost to prevent the Soviet Union 's collapse by continuing to " act as a barrier against those forces which seek to push the country towards chaos " . |
| 27 | By April the sense of crisis among the Six receded when it was agreed to quicken the pace towards a customs union still further . |
| 28 | It should be noted that the possibility of trans-field comparison , which certainly operates to reduce subject insularity and promote transfer of good practice , also tends to impose a pressure towards uniformity . |
| 29 | The theory is primarily inductive in nature and so lacks explanatory value but it may have helped to counter the trend towards specialization in science . |
| 30 | They 're going to erm , they 're going to give the money towards running a forum , but not a great deal , and then it does n't even cost that much , it just really a question of erm , mailshots and twice yearly events or whatever . |