Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality . |
| 2 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 3 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 4 | Once more inside the pen I held the shovel in front of me and tried to usher the huge sow towards the door . |
| 5 | The experiences of the First World War , often registered in a feeling of horrific waste , also left a deep impression on the mental landscape of the interwar years and helped to form the low-key response towards crime and hooliganism . |
| 6 | He has acknowledged the Italian trend towards overtly sexy clothes by cutting flirty side slits on a curve in his short skirts and stitching a provocative little hitch into them . |
| 7 | The first point to be made in response to this is that current Soviet initiatives are clearly designed to foster a positive attitude towards the USSR as a country which has a viable socio-economic system and offers valuable commercial opportunities , rather than trying to incite the masses to Soviet-style revolution . |
| 8 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 9 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 10 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 11 | In the past , Mrs Aquino has taken a conciliatory stance towards ambitious factions in her armed forces , but , instead of appeasing mutineers , this policy has stoked rebellion in the barracks . |
| 12 | By taking over Thames , the firm has taken a big step towards becoming a powerhouse in British television . |
| 13 | With 100 $500 grants already on their way to scientists working in Russia , the International Science Foundation ( ISF ) has taken the first step towards meeting its goal of helping to preserve research in the former Soviet Union . |
| 14 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 15 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 16 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia . |
| 18 | Ingres Windows 4GL , well received as a graphical , object-oriented 4GL development tool , but with a surprisingly low profile for a two year old product , is expected to make a two-stage move towards supporting multiple databases , with announcements about a middleware product expected next month . |
| 19 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 20 | Both the Littlewoods actually , Banbury and Oxford are putting up teams , and so are , we understand , fifteen of the NatWest banks in Oxfordshire , so there 's a lot going on and er we think the walks in Oxfordshire are going to go a long way towards raising this vitally needed million pounds for the rainforests this year |
| 21 | ‘ We have to avoid pushing the armed forces towards the most extreme right-wing sectors of the country , ’ says Mr Villalobos , the most pragmatic of the FMLN commanders . |
| 22 | His sublime but discursive wisdom could be used to camouflage a headlong rush towards an easier life , one in which hard problems are fudged , not faced . |
| 23 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
| 24 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 25 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 26 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 27 | I began to see the subtle pressures towards our Western ideals creeping into Eastern Europe even in music and fashion . |
| 28 | Three arguments are often raised to counter the increasing tendency towards in-depth work . |
| 29 | Show that they are beginning to adopt a critical stance towards some of the techniques and conventions of presentation used in non-literary and media texts . |
| 30 | English statesman and twice Prime Minister ( 1784–1801 and 1804–6 ) : ‘ the pilot who had weathered the storm ’ , DS 61 ; increased the tax on windows , OCS 28 ; sought to adopt a neutral attitude towards the French Revolution , but on France 's declaring war on England put Britain at the head of a powerful anti-French alliance , TTC iii 8 . |