Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 2 | Mark needed a chance to realize that his parents understood how he felt and that lots of other older brothers feel the same way towards their young sisters . |
| 3 | Ironically bands feel the same way towards Peel . |
| 4 | Ironically bands feel the same way towards Peel . |
| 5 | An eminent writer in the Sunday Telegraph had recently used the word ‘ cheats ’ in respect of Pakistani cricketers and umpires , and during this Test match a correspondingly eminent Pakistani journalist fired off the same word towards the umpires who managed to maintain control of this noisy contest . |
| 6 | Another significant factor working in the same direction towards decentralised negotiations in many European countries may also have been the increased importance of foreign-owned firms , particularly US multinationals ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 7 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 8 | I felt uneasy and the back of my neck was prickly with sweat , but relentlessly I kept the same pace towards them . |
| 9 | " Lloyd George would secure a greater hold on the rank and file of our party and he would also be so dependent on that party after the election that he would permanently be driven into the same attitude towards our Party which Chamberlain was placed in before , with this difference — that he would be the leader of it . |
| 10 | As before , she was meltingly aware of the romance of two people , side by side , shoulder almost touching shoulder , breathing the same air , sharing the same journey towards the inevitable dawn . |
| 11 | He followed her gaze and the barman lifted his right hand in a drink-pouring gesture , nodding at the same time towards the clock which showed five minutes to eleven . |
| 12 | These antibodies have the same immunoreactivity towards L-G-17 and gastrin-17 ( unpublished data ) . |
| 13 | Celia Fiennes , riding through the same region towards the end of that century , found the Border dwellings ‘ worse than booths at a fair ’ , and so smelly that she preferred to lunch with her horses in the stable . |
| 14 | This is illustrated in Figure 4.4 ( a ) , and you can see that Venus would keep the same face towards the Sun . |
| 15 | … then there will be the same intolerance towards outsiders as in the age of the Wars of Religion ; and if differences between scientific opinions could ever attain a similar significance for groups , the same result would again be repeated with this new motivation . |