Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bush administration was reluctant to forgive Africa 's debt , even though it had pushed commercial banks towards solving part of the debt problem in Latin America . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Defence solicitor Paddy Mallon said Horsfall claimed the soldiers had made derogatory remarks towards her and her son . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For example , a large number ( 16 per cent. ) thought that the police had used unnecessary violence towards themselves , or that an acquaintance had experienced or witnessed this . |
| 6 | Other prostitutes were killed because they had shown some sympathy towards the organizations , I knew " Chilindrina " , who was only 17 or 18 when she was murdered . |
| 7 | ‘ If Diana had shown some warmth towards Charles , just a smile even , the new Morton revelations would have meant very little , ’ a royal watcher said last night . |
| 8 | By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment . |
| 9 | But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite . |
| 10 | Even before mid-April , the Sakhiet incident and its sequel had crystallized long-standing hostilities towards the republic , both on the part of the army in Algeria , which felt that it was close to achieving military victory and was all the more exasperated by the weakness of the civilian authorities , and on the part of the settler population . |
| 11 | The Beaver Committee defined 294 areas of England ‘ black ’ , requiring smoke control , and by 1974 all but fourteen local authorities had taken some steps towards implementing the Act . |