Example sentences of "[unc] attitude to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ruth Merttens and Jeffrey Vass ( 1987 ) in an article headed ‘ Parents in schools : raising money or standards ? ’ discussed ways in which they structured the involvement of parents with their children 's learning of mathematics and Boland and Simmons ( 1987 ) describe ways in which they altered parents ' and children 's attitudes to reading .
2 Second , the high degree of commitment between private lenders and borrowers in Japan is particularly obvious in lender 's attitudes to firms in financial difficulty and the research will examine the circumstances under which firms are rescued by their bankers .
3 Another reason for looking at women 's attitudes to housework comes from surveys of gender differences in the areas of education and employment over the last few decades .
4 A first aim is to describe the housewife 's work situation and the housewife 's attitudes to housework .
5 Each of these sections end with a couple of sentences which sum up the consequences of Pip 's attitudes to life in that particular section .
6 One of his secretaries Colville tells us that Churchill 's attitudes to clergymen had a touch of King Henry II 's attitude to Thomas Becket .
7 The term " investigation " was also used in a variety of ways , for example , to describe a survey such as " An investigation into traffic flow on the High Street " or " Investigate people 's attitudes to TV " .
8 The history of Western men 's attitudes to women is a history of woman-hatred , often with terrifying consequences .
9 They should learn to recognise when people 's attitudes to language use , eg as expressed in letters to newspapers , reveal misunderstandings about the nature of language change .
10 The Royal Society 's report accepts that people 's attitudes to risks are just as important as the numerical value of the probability of the risk being realised .
11 Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety .
12 Inter alia , the NCCOP was concerned with problems arising from the community 's attitudes to retirement ( Nuffield Foundation , 1949 ) .
13 Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work .
14 It should be added that Freud explicitly admitted that religious phenomena , both at the individual level and at the societal level , are overdetermined , so other factors , such as political and economic changes , could also affect people 's attitudes to religion .
15 Initiatives already under way include research into young people 's attitudes to condoms , single teenage mothers ' views on family planning services , special support for pregnant teenagers and ‘ Streetwise ’ , a confidential service for the under-25s which offers advice on contraception , drug/alcohol problems and pregnancy testing .
16 The survey of over 1,000 adults aged 15+ , conducted by NOP at the end of November 1991 , researched the public 's attitudes to photographs of the Royal family in the press .
17 Gandhi 's attitude to mission and conversion finds an echo in Tillich 's rejection of missionwissenschaft , an approach to religions which sees the purpose of religious dialogue as a means of conversion from one religion to another in accordance with certain theological presuppositions .
18 Yoshida 's attitude to communism was pragmatic : while he disliked communism as an ideology , it was necessary to deal with the world that existed .
19 The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying .
20 Among the cases in which the options are not stacked like this , is that in which the sanctions and disapproval exist against behaviour which is in fact frequent and not the subject , perhaps , of any deep personal disinclination ; this , at the limit , is pure humbug , like the old school-master 's attitude to masturbation .
21 He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press .
22 Mick Houghton believes the band 's attitude to touring reflects their lifestyles .
23 And though the whole cult was largely founded on a pout , a posture , a rear view of ponytail and hindquarters and some carefully arranged shower curtains , sheets and wet clothing , the significance of it was that a young woman created a new lifestyle indisputably of the Fifties in which she took a man 's attitude to sex .
24 Or rather , showed that a woman 's and a man 's attitude to sex could henceforward be one and the same .
25 It was yet another layer in what was to become the bountiful and complex nature of Burton 's attitude to sex , to authority , to love and to loyalty .
26 Vulgar perhaps , but how honest , realistic and uncomplicated Dolly 's and Gertrude 's attitude to sex appeared in comparison to the modern cult of ‘ luv ’ , with its tedious machinery of psychology , pop songs , broken-heart columns and cinematic sex-symbols .
27 Despite its role , Data Logic has n't shied from voicing some concerns over its employer 's attitude to transaction processing-on-Unix , concerns lodged not on the technology side , but at IBM 's marketing approach .
28 Mrs Whitehouse 's attitude to homosexuals and homosexuality , though , is somewhat more complex than was perhaps allowed for at the time .
29 Joan McAlpine talks to an angry priest about the Catholic Church 's attitude to homosexuals among its ranks ‘
30 Now he has to wait and see how much John Major 's attitude to Europe has been affected by the gift of five more years in power .
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