Example sentences of "have [art] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only has a trend towards the internalisation of negotiating activity been apparent in Britain but also in those countries such as the United States and Japan where enterprise level bargaining has predominated labour relations issues have long been handled by the managements of individual undertakings themselves . |
| 2 | Electrically , the sound has a bias towards the upper mid-range , causing the top strings to stand out rather more than the bass . |
| 3 | The Thatcher government believed this system has a bias towards overspending by local authorities . |
| 4 | Resolving the gravitational force due to the star tangential to OA gives zero for A , while for B the force has a component towards A. Therefore there is a relative acceleration between A and B given by which is independent of the masses of A and B. Such an acceleration is called a differential or tidal acceleration ; it is unaffected by the choice of reference frame . |
| 5 | It is still not uniform in type but has a tendency towards beefiness and size , with bulls averaging 145cm and 1,200kg , and cows 140cm and 800kg . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives . |
| 8 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 9 | Every manager has a responsibility towards the organisation as a whole , and must define the activities of his own unit so as to contribute towards achieving the organisation 's objectives . |
| 10 | Every manager has a responsibility towards his subordinates ( ie to make sure they know what is expected of them , to help them set their own objectives , to help them attain their objectives , to offer counsel and advice etc ) . |
| 11 | I took their advice , but I must have had an inclination towards food to have ended up as I have . |
| 12 | In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it . |
| 13 | A plan may have a bias towards the financial structure or towards technological development . |
| 14 | And the King believed what they said , and was wroth against the Cid , having no love towards him because of the oath which he had pressed upon him at Burgos concerning the death of King Don Sancho his brother . |
| 15 | The family seemed to have a bias towards pink . |
| 16 | She had a responsibility towards her . |
| 17 | From this it might have been possible to develop a philosophy in which humankind had a responsibility towards the other species with which we share the earth . |
| 18 | Wesleyan colleges were established as theological training centres but Baptist and Congregational colleges , because of their origins as dissenting academies , still had a bias towards giving a general arts education and not just a theological training . |
| 19 | Thus , the UK was still a European leader in innovation in the 1950s and 1960s , but perhaps had a bias towards pure science rather than towards the commercial development of technological ideas that will form the next generation of industries . |
| 20 | Humankind became a product of material Nature , but had no responsibility towards the rest of the world because the process that had created humans allowed no room for compassion and encouraged everyone to seek his or her own self-interest . |
| 21 | It is those who had no proclivity towards will making about whom we most wish to know . |
| 22 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 23 | All who are constitutional politicians in Northern Ireland have a responsibility towards the political development process . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We all have a tendency towards over-optimism when assessing how far and fast we 'll travel . |
| 26 | But forgive me , Lord , if I say that I have no inclination towards another marriage . ’ |
| 27 | I myself have no inclinations towards mysticism whatsoever : I see it as a conscious attempt to transcend the exigencies of the material world , including poverty , in the interest or pursuit of some higher mode of consciousness . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no hostility towards women in general . |
| 29 | They feel that they have no future towards which to strive . |