Example sentences of "have [verb] a [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 the 1980s , the economic recession has produced a trend towards takeovers and mergers in the international record industry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Part of this new regulation has involved a shift towards central rather than local control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | He has to pay a £1,000 towards the costs of going to Spain , but because of training ca n't work full-time . |
| 9 | The EC has suspended a grant towards restocking the Pyrenees with eagles and vultures because of fears of the roads ' impact on the birds . |
| 10 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 've made a contribution towards |
| 14 | She had done a lot towards making that sale to the Americans . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had taken a step towards her . |
| 17 | ‘ For the past several decades the majority of modern federations have shown a trend towards centralisation in connection with economic development and social problems ’ . |
| 18 | The geographical destinations of exports have shown a swing towards the EC . |
| 19 | I have put the plan to Lothian Regional Council , and their Transportation Committee have promised a contribution towards the costs of construction . |
| 20 | Although their significance as regional political institutions has been undermined — in the case of water authorities by proposals for privatization and in the case of health authorities by a series of financial and managerial initiatives which have encouraged a shift towards private sector ( market-type ) decision-making ( Pollitt , Harrison , Hunter and Marnoch , 1988 ) — there has been a growth in regional state institutions in other policy areas . |
| 21 | One in eight mortgage payers are in arrears because the Government have launched a drive towards home ownership so powerful that mobility of labour has suffered . |