Example sentences of "towards more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour also moved towards more concern for the consumer , towards an acceptance of the need for legal curbs on the power of the unions , and the party 's need to confirm itself as the defence of the law and order sought by working-class citizens . |
| 2 | He should just remember that there was a God , and feel that there was , ‘ not dead and stifled but alive ’ , urging us towards more love , more life . |
| 3 | But opinion has been hardening towards more coherence on curriculum and qualifications , less separation between academic and vocational , something more like a British Bac . |
| 4 | The 1962 Hospital Plan aimed at a reduction in hospital beds for the mentally ill of roughly one half the total , together with a move towards more provision within general hospitals . |
| 5 | Recommendations were that the New University of Ulster move towards more emphasis on mature students , distance learning and non-degree work ; that Ulster Polytechnic increase emphasis on vocational studies ; and that Queen 's University Belfast continue largely as before , though with more emphasis on broadly based and part-time courses , and , where possible , three-year degree courses ( instead of four year ) . |
| 6 | ( I detect a subtle shift towards more emphasis on individual 's ‘ choice ’ , including choice to leave . ) |
| 7 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |
| 8 | The direction of tertiary education since the mid-seventies , as the process of contraction has continued , has been towards more responsiveness , more accountability , reduced autonomy . |
| 9 | The health service members ( principally community mental handicap nurses and therapists ) were almost an exact mirror image — they concentrated on a casework approach — although there is some slight hint in Table 3 of a shift towards more service development activities over time . |
| 10 | Much of the explanation for this lies in two interrelated trends : towards more white-collar jobs and towards more service jobs , both traditionally weakly organized . |
| 11 | By the beginning of the 1980s , there was a trend towards more centralization , and away from the sometimes rather anarchic experiments in local school democracy of the 1970s . |
| 12 | This pressure for higher dividends will , if it is sustained , push firms towards more borrowing ( to pay the dividend ) and less dependence on equities . |
| 13 | We 're moving towards more ozone treatment for water . |
| 14 | Things have begun to swing towards more enforcement after a period in which , as you note , the Sherman and Clayton acts were forgotten and the authorities charged with enforcing them were starved of resources . |
| 15 | The main virtue of the Donnison Report ( eventually published in 1970 ) lay in its cool and thorough analysis of the nature and pace of the movement towards more openness in secondary education . |
| 16 | Nonetheless he feels ‘ the poor economic situation has really speeded up the move towards more openness . |
| 17 | Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ? |
| 18 | I relish the trend towards more analysis and context in news programmes . |
| 19 | If feelings of altruism and concern are not as widespread as some would like to think , then the push towards more equality is likely to be a weak one . |
| 20 | This great expansion of trade and competition between the advanced capitalist countries outweighed the trend within each country or bloc towards more monopolization . |
| 21 | These problems , coupled with the Conservative government 's free market philosophy , led to a move back towards more market related official rates in the early 1980s . |