Example sentences of "a [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second fee is known as the initial contribution and is a payment towards the Solicitors ' Compensation Fund . |
| 2 | He was solid , scientific , conscious in all his creating , learning his art from masters who were still in the youth of artistic development , his whole work shows a progress towards an ideal which the trammels of Gothic tradition never left him free to attain without a struggle . |
| 3 | He drags a case towards him . |
| 4 | They will have to move a bit towards each other but there is every indication that they will go through their married life fulfilling this role in their relationship . |
| 5 | I must admit I was starting to get this admittedly ungenerous feeling a bit towards Rose Mota before last year 's World Championships . |
| 6 | Yes , I did go a bit towards the window and had a quick glance round . |
| 7 | Sorry … losing it a bit towards the end . |
| 8 | They may ask for an extra premium if they 're including it they may ask for a bit towards it , but they can give a better cover . |
| 9 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 10 | Alisjahbana declares that even before the war he ‘ showed a leaning towards … |
| 11 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 12 | By ‘ male-oriented ’ I mean that it exhibits a focus on , or a direction towards , the interests and activities of men in a gender-differentiated society . |
| 13 | In a brief statement Edwards said : ‘ I have told my board colleagues that I will not be rushed and will come to a decision towards the end of the season . ’ |
| 14 | In a brief statement Edwards said : ‘ I have told my board colleagues that I will not be rushed and will come to a decision towards the end of the season . ’ |
| 15 | It was a room of modest proportions , all of which seemed to curve comfortably inwards like the lines of a shell towards the central and most prominent feature — a splendid and remarkable cot , wonderfully sumptuous , all frilled and canopied in white lace . |
| 16 | In the 1980s , this country was set on a course towards industrial efficiency and competitiveness from which the whole of British business will profit once more , when the recession ends . |
| 17 | English Literature 1 is governed by the concept of literary theory and literary period : the theory has a weighting towards narrative , and the period studied is the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Here was a gentleman with a partiality towards those particular fruits whose cultivation was one of Miller 's specialities and Justice refers to their happy association in the Preface of his British Gardener 's New Director chiefly adapted to the Climate of the Northern Counties ( 4th ed . |
| 19 | And he threw a coin towards Gabriel , who refused to pick it up . |
| 20 | Mr Cook also countered the argument that PR would build in a pull towards the centre ground , preventing Labour from implementing a radical programme . |
| 21 | Picture Derek , or me , walking backwards across a field towards a perch , hawk on glove , trying desperately with our bodies to block the sight of the perch from the alert hawk 's vision . |
| 22 | It is an aid to guide the reviewer of a contract towards those areas of an acquisition contract which are of accounting significance and which might be sources of dispute in the future — it is not a comprehensive guide to analysing every acquisition contract . |
| 23 | Caspar was slowing down , his eyes on a dip towards their left , where the road seemed to fall away into a natural valley . |
| 24 | He allegedly called the staff ‘ idle bastards ’ , pointed at them with his forefinger and ‘ put a foot towards the face of a man ’ . |
| 25 | Last week I even had a letter from Yugoslavia asking for a donation towards Disabled Esperantists ! |
| 26 | If you can offer a raffle prize or give a donation towards this please let Cicely Harris know as soon as possible . |
| 27 | Ten pounds was given to forty five Broadway and a donation towards the phone bill . |
| 28 | ‘ You want a donation towards it all ? ’ |
| 29 | Former pupils and staff who wish to make a donation towards a gift for Mr Tovey should send contributions to The Rectory , Inveresk Road , Tilston , before July 20 . |
| 30 | Each leaf on the Lemande Tree , given its name after the Old English word for shining and glittering , will represent a donation towards the appeal to build a glass-walled community centre for the elderly and mentally ill within an old church in Morningside , Edinburgh . |