Example sentences of "to further/far [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , they are assumed to be committed to different conceptions of the good and they think that they are entitled to press their claims on one another to further their separate aims . |
| 2 | Should they concentrate mainly on enabling youngsters in their care to manage family relationships , or should they endeavour to help young people develop cultural and social interests and to further their practical competence in preparation for future citizenship ? |
| 3 | In West Germany , on the other hand , there has been greater emphasis by unions upon legislative enactment to further their general objectives since , historically , the unions accepted the republic created after World War I as being ‘ their ’ state and consequently pressed for government legislation in the social and labour field ( Günter and Leminsky , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | In some places locally dominant groups will differ from those dominant nationally , and ‘ such locally constituted groups can then use these local state institutions to further their own interests , perhaps even in opposition to centrally dominant interests ’ ( 1988 , p. 41 ) . |
| 5 | In summary , the 1970s was a period when inequality and gender were publicly debated , when unions , largely to further their own interests , were trying to redress the powerlessness of women within their organisations , and when sociologists first recognised gender as an indispensable concept for the analysis of productive relations of the workplace and reproductive relations of the home . |
| 6 | These groups operate sometimes in concert and at other times in opposition , but almost inevitably they seem to further their own interests at the expense of the rural working class . |
| 7 | In contrast , a pluralistic perspective on organizations recognizes the possibility of conflict between human needs and formal structures , between different types of work group and between what is ‘ dysfunctional ’ for the formal goals of the organization but functional for other interests — the ‘ bureaucratic personalities ’ seeking protection in rule-following ( Merton 1940 ) , the specialists seeking to further their own interests though ‘ goal displacement ’ ( Selznick 1949 ) and the workers and managers using bureaucratic rules in their own interests ( Gouldner 1954 ) . |
| 8 | Law reporting is required because those who wish to rely upon a previous decision of the court to further their own case must have a clear and reliable record of the decision and the reason for the decision in the earlier case . |
| 9 | be able to make informed decisions about whether and how to further their own studies of English Language teaching |
| 10 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |
| 11 | They were far more concerned about how politicians and journalists might misuse their data , either through ignorance or to further their own ends . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's shocking the way we are being used by some clubs to further their own ends . |
| 13 | The factions within the leadership also used the demonstrations to further their own ends in the ongoing struggle for supremacy in the party hierarchy . |
| 14 | Moreover , what this episode testifies to is a resurgence of the power of the southern Saxons as they sought to further their own ascendancy in the south-east , the foundation of which had been laid by Wulfhere , and it seems likely that Eadric was established as king in Kent as a southern Saxon satellite . |
| 15 | About half the developers associated with UDG-supported projects intended to further their urban activities . |
| 16 | On a practical and tactical level it suggests that groups with common aspirations should seek to engage in broadly-based political alliances to further their shared interests , through a combination of lobbying , pressure-group activity and litigation . |
| 17 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 18 | China sees the talks as all about politics , a way to further its long-term ambition to recover Taiwan . |
| 19 | Woking Motors , the oldest Mercedes-Benz dealer in the UK , recommended the venue because of , in the words of Paul Langdon-Fox its Executive Director , ‘ the Colleague 's strong tennis tradition and its ambition to further its excellent tennis programme by providing indoor coaching opportunities for promising Surrey schoolchildren . ’ |
| 20 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 21 | In an ideal world every qualified nurse would have the chance to further her professional education in this way . |
| 22 | Presumably not the minor detail that young Anne was a designing little minx who married Henry in cold blood to further her own ambitions — and then did n't even have the sense or decency to stand by her bargain . ’ |
| 23 | He was a member of the embassies to France in 1325–6 , 1331 and 1336 and he used his position as envoy and representative of Edward III to further his book-collecting activities . |
| 24 | Being gay had done nothing to further his legal career , and he had quit the country to take the hippy trail to London , and to Oz . |
| 25 | Had Jamie not warned her from the beginning that he was dangerous , and that he wanted Swift Investments to further his massive ambitions , she would have responded to his sex appeal , his hard good looks , his cool , clever wit . |
| 26 | It 's obvious that Jenner only used the insulin project to further his own work . ’ |
| 27 | Although Harry 's conscience kept him awake that night until the early hours , the temptation of a day alone with Madeleine dulled his feeling of guilt about borrowing Dunbar 's car to further his own pursuit of the girl they both loved . |
| 28 | Throughout your book you mention many of the art world 's leading figures , including Lord Duveen , whom you describe as ‘ an impossibly bumptious and opinionated ass who took advantage of any opportunity that presented itself to burnish his image and to further his own interests ’ . |
| 29 | One , because they were duped by Councillor and his attempts to further his own ambitions and two , because of the complete lack of direction which they have shown as a group under the leadership of Councillor . |
| 30 | The commission dismissed charges of forgery of private and public documents , and in addition applied a December 1989 amnesty for offences committed before June 1989 against rules governing party political financing , in connection with allegations that Nucci had used funds to further his own election as a National Assembly deputy . |