Example sentences of "to move towards [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the firm has indicated an intent to move towards greater ( if not full ) compliance with the rival Unix System V.4 kernel from Unix System Laboratories Inc , and adopt the System V Interface Definition version 3 in HP-UX 10 . |
| 2 | Moreover , the firm has indicated an intent to move towards greater ( if not full ) compliance with the rival Unix SVR4 kernel from Unix System Labs , and adopt the System V Interface Definition version 3 in HP-UX 10 . |
| 3 | Western economies are based on a mix of the free market and state planning and have tended to move towards greater use of market forces . |
| 4 | At the national executive committee inquest , Roy Hattersley won nods of approval for his argument that an attempt to move towards Liberal Democrat policies , in the hope of winning over Liberal Democrat voters , was politically simplistic . |
| 5 | Far from being the ineluctable outcome of intensifying class struggle in Russia , they see the revolution as fortuitous , arising from the coincidence of catastrophic war , abysmal monarchist leadership and liberal ineptitude in a country which had only recently begun to move towards liberal democracy . |
| 6 | By now , however , the biggest pressure Kylie is facing is for her to move towards live appearances and a major world tour to capitalise on the success of ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and all that has followed it . |
| 7 | This keeps the register ‘ live ’ and provides a steady income for the UKCC , so helping it to move towards financial independence from government subsidy . |
| 8 | Having fewer suppliers makes it easier to move towards just-in-time delivery of components . |
| 9 | Now decide whether or not you want to move towards that ‘ probable future ’ . |
| 10 | Certainly we can not provide a fully one hundred percent sustainable community , you 'd be talking about some vast city to move towards that , erm the re the real world is that the the hierarchy of settlements , erm all settlements , have greater or lesser degree of facilities depending on their size , and there 'll be no difference er to the new settlement , and I think to run an argument on the basis of Mr Curtis er has run it is unfair to the concept of the new settlement . |
| 11 | A warning note is sounded in the Fish Report ( on special education in the Inner London Education Authority 1985 ) for local authorities , voluntary associations and parents ' groups to move towards stated , written policies on an integrated nursery and pre-school service : |
| 12 | The peoples of medieval western Europe tended historically to move towards political unity under monarchies exercising increasing administrative , military , and juridical authority , culminating in early modern nation-states . |
| 13 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 14 | As studies of human impact and reviews of the magnitude of this impact encouraged physical geography to move towards applied problems it was necessary to alter attitudes to physical environment and this occurred as a result of three tendencies . |
| 15 | Despite agreements in 1990 to abandon its one-party political ideology and to move towards multi-party democracy , the government has closed ranks and , since September 1991 , the situation has worsened . |
| 16 | Countries must also be willing to move towards multi-party democracy , and to ensure that there is a chance for dialogue to take place . |
| 17 | I am encouraged by the fact that President Moi has expressed his willingness to move towards multi-party democracy , and by the recent indications that fresh general elections may be held early next year . |
| 18 | It was about then I was trying to move towards some really simple guitar pop and even some slightly more outrageous playing . ’ |
| 19 | It is easier to understand it as an attempt to move away from something already characteristic of the community than as an attempt to move towards some outside idealization ( compare my comments on avoidance of stigma in Chapter 2.6 , above ) . |
| 20 | What top management needs in order to move towards this plan is an analysis of its present and potential future situation in terms of products and their associated markets . |
| 21 | This has been particularly remarked on in government contracts and has led to pressure to move towards fixed-price contracts . |
| 22 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 23 | The Society had received assurances just before the Council meeting from John Pitts , Chairman of the Legal Aid Board , that the Board had no plans to move towards competitive tendering , and that ‘ there can be no question of franchise holders being compelled to participate in any competitive tendering exercise and no question of franchise holders being excluded from legal aid work because they choose not to participate in any competitive tendering exercise or do tender and fail ’ . |
| 24 | It was considered self-evident that it was in the general national , indeed imperial , interest to move towards free labour . |
| 25 | By distancing themselves from the use of violence , the Islamist leaders hoped to move towards eventual legalization of the party . |
| 26 | If we are to move towards freer trade , all those export subsidies must go , yet in the negotiations we are compromising . |
| 27 | In the area of advice giving , bureaux might be encouraged to move towards three-day opening to the public . |
| 28 | The springboard for these changes was ‘ Fresh Start ’ , a concerted move in the prison service to change working practices , deployment of staff and work patterns ; to move towards local accountability and control and to deal with industrial relations problems which otherwise looked to be endemic . |