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 | Increasingly the Group was moving towards a regional structure based on three blocs — Europe , Asia Pacific and the Americas — he said . |
| 7 | We are moving towards a plan-led system in which , other things being equal , what is in the plan will happen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | statement , but we can start moving towards a personal statement |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is moving towards a crowned deity , a hero kneeling and holding a curved implement , presumably a knife . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The announcement makes clear that the newspaper group is moving towards a seven-day-a-week operation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After the meeting Haughey declared that " there are still hurdles to be overcome , but I believe we are moving towards a satisfactory outcome " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | While their type of product closely parallels Franklin 's , they are ahead of Franklin in moving towards a generic element in their product design . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Britain , according to Jessop et al. , is moving towards a presidential system of government . |
| 24 | Craxi had also proposed earlier in the year that Italy should move towards a presidential form of government with greater regional autonomy . |
| 25 | Confirmation of a tour to South Africa and moves towards a Southern Hemisphere Five Nations — it 's all happening Down Under , as GREG CAMPBELL discovered . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon said streamlining services and ‘ getting rid of a few managers ’ would benefit patients but moves towards a full merger would not win his support . |
| 27 | I have discussed the impact that moves towards a Single Currency may have , especially if the Maastricht Treaty were to come into force . |
| 28 | A program could allow the teacher to start at this level and offer as its flexibility the opportunity to introduce a random element into the problem and also to have varying levels of ‘ noise ’ fed in , so that we gradually move towards a suitable environment for real problem-solving . |
| 29 | Vowels move towards a neutral form when used in naturally flowing sentences . |
| 30 | We must continue to expand America 's exports … and move towards a free trade zone throughout this entire hemisphere . |