Example sentences of "have make [adj] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the greater integration of individual countries into trading blocs ( Europe , North America , Southern Africa , Latin America ) has made gentle progress towards some form of global administration ( rather than government ) seem more natural and inevitable . |
| 2 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 3 | Erm , the employment services has agreed to fund that entirely , so it 's not erm the company 's not having to make any contribution towards it , and very probably there will be a second course a week or two later . |
| 4 | It is in the area of sexuality that women are often supposed to have made great advances towards equality with men . |
| 5 | Companies thus appear to have made some strides towards repairing net worth , partly as a result of responding early to signs of recession . |
| 6 | I note that you 've made some headway towards solving things on the technical front . |
| 7 | We 've made some progress towards establishing the criteria which we should set out in our policy , and the mechanisms needed to control that policy . |
| 8 | Other regimes had made tentative steps towards amelioration ; what distinguished the Emperor 's plan from the preceding ones was its all-over view of the problem — urbanization based on urban planning . |
| 9 | Defence solicitor Paddy Mallon said Horsfall claimed the soldiers had made derogatory remarks towards her and her son . |
| 10 | They agreed to extend the aid programme ( already applying to Hungary and Poland ) to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia and ( pending unification ) East Germany , on the grounds that all four had made sufficient progress towards democracy and a free market economy . |
| 11 | By bringing still more evidence to light , I hope I have made some contribution towards reforming an outmoded and unfair system , one that permits arrogant and unscrupulous commissioners to do as they please . |