Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 2 | Sec. knows that he has made a step towards a quorum on the next occasion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , You are a contemptible girl to tell such mischievous lies about a master who has shown every care towards you . |
| 5 | In the 1980s , the economic recession has produced a trend towards takeovers and mergers in the international record industry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Part of this new regulation has involved a shift towards central rather than local control . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | He has to pay a £1,000 towards the costs of going to Spain , but because of training ca n't work full-time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The EC has suspended a grant towards restocking the Pyrenees with eagles and vultures because of fears of the roads ' impact on the birds . |
| 16 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 17 | I took their advice , but I must have had an inclination towards food to have ended up as I have . |
| 18 | He demonstrated that a rise in State spending unaccompanied by an increase in taxes would have stimulated the economy towards full employment with the smallest change . |
| 19 | If you tackle it along the lines suggested in this booklet , you will have taken a step towards reducing the appalling costs the problem imposes on all of us . |
| 20 | They will have to move a bit towards each other but there is every indication that they will go through their married life fulfilling this role in their relationship . |
| 21 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |
| 22 | Cardiff noticed that they had turned the microphone towards the floor now , but the clicking from the metal container had stopped . |
| 23 | They 've made a contribution towards |
| 24 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 25 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 26 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |
| 27 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 28 | Before she could stop herself , she had pulled the phone towards her again and was dialling Cadogan 's . |
| 29 | Brady stressed that the two countries were special cases ; Egypt , he said , had been the " foundation stone " of the coalition in the Gulf war , while Poland had led the way towards a free market economy in eastern Europe . |
| 30 | The shuttle had not been attacked since Daak had started the descent towards the station . |