Example sentences of "towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 2 | AI believes they are held because they opposed the government 's policy towards the Shi'a community . |
| 3 | In his review for the Salon of 1846 , Baudelaire wrote : ‘ To say Romanticism is to say modern art — that is spirituality , colour , aspiration towards the infinite , expressed by every means available to the arts . ’ |
| 4 | There are returns to the impasto , but thin painting certainly predominates towards the end of the century . |
| 5 | Some readers were upset by the hostility shown towards the murdered woman , and by the sympathy shown towards Jimmy — the sympathy of an author noted for his sceptical attitude towards revolutionaries , who had been hostile , in print , to all of the participants in the historical events which supplied part of his plot . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , in this closing scene , the water hyacinths proceed towards the sea , as they have been doing throughout the action . |
| 7 | Roth 's turn towards fact — admittedly , an imagined and far from indisputable fact — will appear to some to signal a turn towards the self and towards the outside world . |
| 8 | Roth 's turn towards fact — admittedly , an imagined and far from indisputable fact — will appear to some to signal a turn towards the self and towards the outside world . |
| 9 | It 's significant , too , that while Herbert Tree was laying the foundations of drama training in England , the famous partnership of Stanislavsky and Danchenko in Russia was beginning , and saw the first developments towards the establishment of the Moscow Arts Theatre . |
| 10 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |
| 11 | The decline of the labour element in the SDLP in the North , however , does indicate a trend to the style of politics in the Republic , that is towards the suppression of class politics and identity in line with the dominant ideology of the alliance . |
| 12 | Even when non-Anglican protestants had become accepted as citizens in England and Ireland towards the end of the eighteenth century as they already were in Scotland and Wales , English and Irish catholics remained politically suspect . |
| 13 | The article as a whole is strangely lopsided but seems to follow on from the logic of this position , embodying the agreement made between clergy and politicians towards the end of the nineteenth century outlined in Chapter 3 . |
| 14 | These were heavily biased towards the view that there were two perfect societies , both supreme in their own orders , with the church supreme in spiritual and moral matters ( see Pius IX 's Syllabus of Errors in Freemantle 1956 : 145–6 , 152 ; Leo XIII 1903 : 114 ; Pius XI 1930 : 65 ; for typical treatise approaches see Van Noort 1960 : 235–41 ; Bender 1960 ) . |
| 15 | From the early 1940s , the Irish government began to work towards the introduction of a comprehensive health service for mothers and children in line with other legislative developments in Western countries . |
| 16 | He was leaning against the rail smoking a cigarette and staring with an air of melancholy towards the distant island . |
| 17 | ‘ Milord , milord , ’ he shouted , hurling himself towards the pair in the prow . |
| 18 | In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan . |
| 19 | The small bi-plane wobbled over the oaks and the elms , banked at the north end of the ha-ha and started to descend towards the huge lawn which ran , treeless along this side of the house between terrace and park . |
| 20 | The Regent Theatre stood halfway down Shaftesbury Avenue towards the Piccadilly end , convenient for the Trocadero or the Criterion for those who like their after-theatre supper served amid gilt and chandeliers rather than in the garlicky hinterland of Soho . |
| 21 | He stood , scarlet-cheeked , as she moved towards the screen , throwing off the kimono as she went . |
| 22 | But then he turned towards the stairs and his face went grim and cold . |
| 23 | The Festival also plays a role in the artistic renaissance of Birmingham , a profile confirmed by the continuing success of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , under its Artistic Director , Simon Rattle , the recent move of both the Birmingham Royal Ballet ( formerly Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet ) and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to Birmingham , the newly launched ‘ Towards The Millennium ’ annual arts Festival and the Arts Council of Great Britain 's invitation to Birmingham to launch Arts 2000 , as the UK City of Music in 1992 . |
| 24 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 25 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 26 | I heard someone coming towards the door . |
| 27 | He turned and walked towards the door . |
| 28 | I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line . |
| 29 | I watched the other passengers go on towards the passport control and the futility of my own expedition was now only too clear . |
| 30 | I wandered back north towards the church . |