Example sentences of "[verb] towards [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have some root in Tolkien 's own experience , for it stresses the unwisdom of fathers leaving their children — Tolkien hardly knew his own father — and seems to be groping towards a statement about the incompatibility of men and women , users and providers , wasters and winners . |
| 2 | That there 's a deep bond between us — his loving me in his way , my liking him very much ( even loving him , but not sexually ) in my way — a feeling that we 're groping towards a compromise . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was still groping towards a fully-formed constitutional blueprint . |
| 4 | By this time we were climbing towards a ridge . |
| 5 | The magnificent view to the south , from the Boulevard des Pyrenees , built along the bluff above the fast-running Gave de Pau , displayed an inspiring panorama , thousands of miles of rich valley climbing towards the snowcapped Pyrenees . |
| 6 | Two tiny shapes climbing towards the Flatiron . |
| 7 | We started climbing towards the mess when , at 9.35 , the alarm went again . |
| 8 | Above this , climbing towards the castle , was the burgh of Edinburgh , to which Robert the Bruce granted a royal charter including , among other privileges , jurisdiction over the port of Leith . |
| 9 | For bonds trading at a discount to par ( so that rm ) , duration increases to a maximum at around 20 years and then declines towards the limit given by ( 5.48 ) . |
| 10 | The figure , that of a young girl dressed in a white dress , appeared to stumble and fall and then , as he drew nearer , she rose to her feet and staggered towards the signal box steps . |
| 11 | The Phoenix King staggered towards the towering form of the Great Unclean One . |
| 12 | So Elvis Presley 's ‘ Love Me Tender ’ , which came out in 1956 , will not count towards the pop quota , but Luciano Pavarotti 's ‘ Nessun Dorma ’ , theme tune to the 1990 World Cup , will . |
| 13 | Insolvency and information technology will now count towards the practical experience trainees need to qualify as chartered accountants , under new rules which came into effect on 1 August . |
| 14 | A CUCUMBER is n't a cucumber — and wo n't count towards the EC cucumber crop — unless it 's the correct colour ( green ) and has the right amount of curve , according to European Commission rules . |
| 15 | The following assets are not subject to capital gains tax and do not count towards the £5,800 profits you are allowed to make : |
| 16 | Gallery Director Mary Gardner Neill has yet to determine how the money will be spent , but she told The Art Newspaper that the $10 million will count towards the Yale campaign , a major university-wide capital drive to be announced in early May , seeking $1.5 billion by 1997 . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the authorities did not control the supply of all the eligible liquid assets which could count towards the banks ' liquidity ratio . |
| 18 | There was unanimity among the teachers about awarding marks for ( a ) and a very large measure of agreement that some aspects of ( b ) should also count towards the assessment . |
| 19 | In most cases , this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 20 | The time that the candidate has been registered as a supervised postgraduate student will normally count towards the period of study prescribed for the degree . |
| 21 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 22 | This is in contrast to the compulsory sale procedures under CA 1985 , s429 where , although market purchases made before the posting of the offer document can not count towards the 90 per cent threshold , purchases afterwards may be counted provided they do not exceed the offer price . |
| 23 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 24 | This advantage is considerable since the bitter fraction may then be chemically manipulated to produce bitter iso a acids from the a acids and so provide a PIKE product which may be added towards the end of the boil or even afterwards . |
| 25 | They include pumpkin , lentil , onion , parsnip , beetroot , pea , fennel and the redoubtable Buddhist Monk of mung beans with cashew nuts and coconut added towards the end ; ‘ a tropical soup , ’ says Rex . |
| 26 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 27 | end of the island as polar bears ; indeed , the sight of one was so surprising that she picked up her skirts and , with the younger children around her , fled towards the safety of her mother 's kitchen . |
| 28 | Then without a backward glance he fled towards the French windows , clutching the offending animal under his arm . |
| 29 | She raced from the barn and fled towards the house with a very red face , especially as she heard his amused and taunting laughter . |
| 30 | Barley , supplemented towards the east by legumes , was the ubiquitous cereal ; with investment in crops and livestock evenly balanced on the smaller holdings , mixed farming for subsistence was probably the norm . |