Example sentences of "a [adj] attitude [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless he maintained a friendly attitude towards me and after my initial difficulty made himself available whenever he was needed . |
| 2 | With its declining membership the ILP tended to adopt a purist attitude to other Left groups . |
| 3 | Without the constant reminder of the ‘ once and might have been ’ , a blasé attitude of complacency is harder to resist . |
| 4 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 5 | Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he has a terrific attitude to the game . |
| 7 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 8 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 9 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 10 | He spoke of the ‘ renaissance in world history ’ that was taking place along the rim of the Pacific , and declared that his country — the greater part of which , he told his audience , lay ‘ East of the Urals ’ — was about to develop a coherent attitude towards it and its people . |
| 11 | They may ( or may not ) have been created that way , but , once they have been determined , we store our beliefs more efficiently in the form of symbols ( shorthand words and phrases which reflect a complete attitude to and assessment of a person or situation — e.g. ‘ She is a poor performer ’ ) and scripts ( models of how we act once certain situations are recognized ) . |
| 12 | Franco refused to adopt a conciliatory attitude towards the Allies in the summer of 1945 . |
| 13 | Previously , ASEAN states had viewed with suspicion any effort to include environmental concerns in GATT on the grounds that they could be used as an excuse for a protectionist attitude by wealthy northern countries , and that , specifically , they could lead to a ban on the import of timber from south-east Asia . |
| 14 | Along with this power went a contemptuous attitude towards the natives as a ‘ lower race ’ . |
| 15 | Many people found this a strange attitude from a government committed to law and order . |
| 16 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 17 | No matter how badly your set goes , if you have a professional attitude to your work and a friendly disposition , you will find that people will want to work with you again . |
| 18 | Sinton runs ‘ Safe And Sound Management ’ — the North 's only professional rock management company — and he has constantly preached the virtues of cultivating a professional attitude to even the greenest garage band . |
| 19 | Spurious consultation , a patronising attitude to teachers , and a tendency to regard all criticism as captious and ill-formed , are — while not unknown among headteachers — unlikely to win the hearts and minds of those who actually have to make things happen . |
| 20 | Some lack of enthusiasm is caused by a habitual attitude of boredom and hopelessness , and the simple remedy to this is often to commence a regimen of positive thought . |
| 21 | I was n't really disappointed at all ; I had a devil-may-care attitude to my athletics . |
| 22 | There can be no doubt that the climate of Japan imposed on her artists a different attitude towards art problems . |
| 23 | The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) . |
| 24 | The budget setting process for fundholding implies a different attitude towards variation . |
| 25 | So they have a wide tax base and they can generate large sums of money if they , if they choose to do so and in different states there 's a different culture , a different attitude towards public spending and taxation and so on . |
| 26 | The reason people thought she was naked all through the film was because she displayed a different attitude to sex from the one that prevailed in films at that time . |
| 27 | In West Germany , every residential facility has to have a residents ' committee by law — this may not work in every case , but it speaks of a different attitude to the residents themselves . |
| 28 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 29 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 30 | In relation to a repetition test , he argues that the negro children who failed because they did not repeat the teacher 's utterance in the same form were really being failed for a different attitude to surface detail . |