preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
feel loyalty towards sb/sth
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Marco felt an intense loyalty to his native country.
go a long way towards (= will help to reach a goal )
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Your contributions will go a long way towards helping children in need .
make a gesture towards sb/sth (= do something to show that you have some respect for someone or something )
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The drinks industry has made a gesture towards reducing alcohol misuse by setting up a research group.
move towards a climax
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Political tensions were moving towards a climax.
move towards independence (= gradually achieve it over a period of time )
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The country was slowly moving towards independence.
work towards a goal
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We are all working towards similar goals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be oriented to/towards/around sth/sb
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All the computers we consider are general-purpose, at least in theory, although they may be oriented towards particular application areas.
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Attention will be oriented to the imagery and assumptions about reproductive physiology on which methods of contraception and their evaluation are based.
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First we were oriented towards the orientation building.
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In contrast, pragmatic parties hold more flexible goals and are oriented to moderate or incremental policy change.
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Management involvement in internal operations and problems must be oriented to the environment, its opportunities and demands.
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On the one hand, the questions are oriented towards exposing the discipline, bringing into the open its hidden character.
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The former are oriented to specialized resources while the latter focus on outputs.
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This project is oriented towards education.
be well/favourably/kindly disposed (to/towards sb/sth)
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He said Bonn was favourably disposed to such a conference if it were well prepared.
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I think maybe she had seen the television programmes and was favourably disposed .
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It is expected that he will be favourably disposed towards the report's proposals.
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Jackson was well disposed towards journalists of left-wing sympathies.
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The best that can be hoped for, on their behalf, is that human beings are kindly disposed towards them.
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The majority were favourably disposed , some were ambivalent and a few highly critical of the messages and their style.
go a long way towards doing sth
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And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.
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For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.
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Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.
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In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.
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Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.
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The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
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This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.
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This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.
go some way towards doing sth
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But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite.
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Funding for public works, including community-based arts projects, went some way towards alleviating mass unemployment.
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However, the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them.
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It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.
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Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness.
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The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly.
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This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease.
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Will he go some way towards reviewing the process?
tend towards sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Glancing towards me, he started to laugh.
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If you walk along the river bank towards Skipton you come to a bridge.