Example sentences of "move towards a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 2 | He has overhauled the legal aid system ; attacked the Bar 's 200-year-old monopoly ; moved towards a unified family court system ; introduced major changes in civil court procedures ; called for more black judges and women lawyers ; and removed magistrates who were disqualified from driving for twelve months after drink-driving convictions . |
| 3 | However , during his last period in office , since 1989 , the government had moved towards a market-driven economy with the privatization of state enterprises and trade liberalization . |
| 4 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 5 | By contrast to its growing enmity with Inkatha , the ANC appeared to be moving towards a new accommodation with the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , originally formed in 1958 as a breakaway from the ANC . |
| 6 | Below 1,500 feet , the maps should be ignored and priority should be given to checking for suitable fields below while also searching for lift , re-checking on the local wind direction and moving towards a better area of fields if necessary . |
| 7 | Increasingly the Group was moving towards a regional structure based on three blocs — Europe , Asia Pacific and the Americas — he said . |
| 8 | We are moving towards a plan-led system in which , other things being equal , what is in the plan will happen . |
| 9 | Their uniform ‘ acted like a red rag to a bull ’ on the population ; people had lost all respect for them held them to blame for their plight , and vented their anger o At the beginning of September , the SD agency in Kitzingen felt that the loss of confidence in the Party and the regime 's leadership was rapidly moving towards a dangerous level . |
| 10 | In moving towards a satisfying identification of some entity , the mind of a speaker will naturally tend to describe it initially by matching its roughly perceived whole against those properties that are most common in use and perceptually basic . |
| 11 | statement , but we can start moving towards a personal statement |
| 12 | In any case , many of its members in the late 18th century , though not yet necessarily committed to a full-blooded doctrine of ‘ laissez-faire ’ , were moving towards a political philosophy involving less , not more , government intervention in everyday affairs , leaving the ‘ natural ’ market forces of supply and demand to regulate the economy as best they may . |
| 13 | In her new show ( to be premièred at the Arnolfini in Bristol on 25 October and reaching the Riverside Studios in London on 30 October ) , Lea Anderson will be moving towards a clearer narrative — looking at a single event from two very different points of view , the first to a delicate musical collage , the second to a brash brass quartet . |
| 14 | It is moving towards a crowned deity , a hero kneeling and holding a curved implement , presumably a knife . |
| 15 | Students learn to work as individuals and in groups , moving towards a fuller understanding of their own skills and personal interests , and towards an awareness of the wider functions of the disciplines which form Art and Design . |
| 16 | Reading between the lines , it was evident that de Gaulle was seeking to encourage those individuals in the political establishment — such as President Coty and the deputy prime minister , Guy Mollet — who were already moving towards a Gaullist solution , but that he was not yet willing to negotiate with the collective leadership of the Republic . |
| 17 | The announcement makes clear that the newspaper group is moving towards a seven-day-a-week operation . |
| 18 | This is above all a narrative role , a role within a storyline which is unfolded as a teleology , that is a narrative moving towards a preordained conclusion , which structures the logic of preceding events . |
| 19 | After the meeting Haughey declared that " there are still hurdles to be overcome , but I believe we are moving towards a satisfactory outcome " . |
| 20 | Meanwhile in 1558 he wrote the Appellation to the Nobility and Estates of Scotland , a work which , taken in conjunction with his Letter addressed to the Commonalty of Scotland , shows how far his mind was moving towards a positive theory of the rights of resistance in God 's cause . |
| 21 | Will my right hon. Friend consider the remarks of the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland ( Mr. Maclennan ) , who suggested that we were moving towards a cross-border liberalisation and liberation ? |
| 22 | An interesting development advocated by the authors is that of moving towards a multidisciplinary approach , whereby other health-care professionals take responsibility for specific problems but all carers have access to the objectives involved . |
| 23 | But its advocates fail to mention that , in the first place , most disabilities occur after birth from accidents or illness ; secondly , much illness and disability in newborn babies is not inherited , but is the result of something that happened during pregnancy ; and thirdly , that medicine is now moving towards a gene-oriented approach to reproduction and health an approach which increases the occasions for screening and raises the questions , who shall decide who s ’ fit to breed ’ , with which genes , and who 's ’ fit ’ to be born ? |
| 24 | While their type of product closely parallels Franklin 's , they are ahead of Franklin in moving towards a generic element in their product design . |
| 25 | General Holomisa recently dealt himself into South Africa 's reform game by moving towards a loose alliance with the outlawed African National congress and by announcing plans for a referendum on the ‘ independent ’ homeland 's possible reincorporation into South Africa . |
| 26 | Yet at a time when the rest of the industrialized world is moving towards a forty hour week , women , many of whom may work at least eighty hours per week , are encouraged to regard this as not being work . |
| 27 | Britain , according to Jessop et al. , is moving towards a presidential system of government . |
| 28 | In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm . |
| 29 | A special committee , the resource allocation working party ( RAWP ) , was convened to establish ways of moving towards a fairer distribution system . |
| 30 | Craxi had also proposed earlier in the year that Italy should move towards a presidential form of government with greater regional autonomy . |