Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] towards [art] end " in BNC.

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1 As soon as the soil is dry enough to rake towards the end of the month , do n't delay sowing such hardy crops as cabbage , non-bolting beetroot , lettuce , spinach , peas and broad beans .
2 Sheedy may think that Madden , after a club record 375 games and with more than 570 goals during his career , is perhaps coming towards the end of his tether .
3 In 1316 , however , the southern clergy met three times before they finally capitulated towards the end of the year and authorized the collection of a tenth ; even then , it was to be delivered in two moieties , one in 1317 , the other in 1318 .
4 Then as the rope finally reaches towards the end the load is then seen by the audience and it is — You .
5 The question , ‘ Is there anything you would like to ask me ’ generally comes towards the end of the interview .
6 The groundwork principles are a necessary element in the art of kung fu and they are usually taught towards the end of training , since many of them are at times contradictory to the normal rules governing training .
7 In some cases , of course , his penchant for doggedness , which seems to have become more pronounced towards the end of his career , appears to be at odds with the spirit of the music .
8 Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century .
9 Yeah erm oh well looks like we 're nearly drifting towards the end , again as I , as I say I 'm , I 'm , I 'm fairly , pretty happy with the questions erm you know er going back to what I was saying earlier I was just thinking that some of them might be more f easily phrased as non directional statements and you have the , you know , kind of have the words in the scales yeah right , good , so yeah
10 Compared to the influence of personal partisan prejudice the influence of the media on economic perceptions was small but it also increased towards the end of the campaign , especially amongst Labour readers of right-wing papers .
11 The Fears of Solitude more accurately represents his disillusionment with other people , which he clearly felt towards the end of his life .
12 To address the fragmentation issue , general SVQs will also feature an additional assessment , probably taken towards the end of the course , which will require the candidate to demonstrate that he/she can pull together the work across all of the modules which make up the general SVQ .
13 When reality did begin to break in , as it inevitably did towards the end , the British were unprepared for it .
14 In the first and third obese subjects ( MO1 and MO3 ) , however , the total urinary APGPR concentration slowly increased towards the end of the sampling period , four to six hours after the onset of the meal .
15 The Manchester Citizens Corporation was alone in lobbying for such provision , but its capability in this area became increasingly constrained towards the end of the Programme period ( see below ) .
16 This complacency was once again disputed towards the end of the decade , through the expressionist paintings of Kokoschka , through Karl Kraus 's biting essays , and through the spartan and functionalist design of Adolf Loos .
17 There are returns to the impasto , but thin painting certainly predominates towards the end of the century .
18 I think we must allow more time during the lunchbreak for notices — they are too rushed towards the end !
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