Example sentences of "and attitudes [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The three big economies are at different stages of the economic cycle : while America is struggling with recession , Japan and Germany are still fighting inflation , giving rise to differences in interest-rate policies and attitudes towards the risk of inflation .
2 Concurrently with his rural work , Whiteley became a prominent member of the Ipswich branch and his support of some of its antipathetic policies and attitudes towards the District distanced him somewhat from Wash , Pateman and Shearman , who became District Vice-Chairman in 1931 .
3 The first issue requires a change in organization practice and attitudes towards the patient group .
4 The investigation was based on in-depth group discussions , These discussions were structured around a pre-determined format whose objective was to elicit the respondents ' motives and attitudes towards the product .
5 The interviews update employment histories and focus on domestic activities , responsibilities and attitudes towards the performance of household tasks .
6 As already seen in Chapter 1 , possession and ownership in English law are normally " exclusive " , that is , they involve " Keep off ! " actions and attitudes towards the property and towards other people .
7 Japan is no exception to the tendency to sum up widely shared social characteristics and attitudes under the heading of ‘ national character ’ .
8 The behavioural specialists are responsible for providing data and attitudes for the policy-makers which should redress the balance .
9 The criteria for assessing the likely return on a project and attitudes for the risks involved will differ between sources of finance .
10 We need above all , however , to approach all old people with the recognition that as individuals they are varied in their strengths and weaknesses , values and attitudes as the rest of us .
11 But the power and attitudes of the church vary considerably with different Latin American countries .
12 It is basically a problem of the misuse of land … particularly in pastoral areas , much of the problem results from the customs , value systems and attitudes of the people concerning grazing lands and livestock , together with the lack of government mechanisms for effective control .
13 The first step was to research the needs and attitudes of the black community by contacting community groups that represent them .
14 Children learn self-restraint as part of the process by which they learn the values and attitudes of the society in which they will move .
15 The policies and attitudes of the corporations have , moreover , been thrown into sharp focus by the emergence of alternative approaches to wide-scale urban regeneration , which have been promoted elsewhere in the UK , notably in Scotland .
16 Counselling empathy requires constant testing because we can never be certain that what we believe to be the feelings and attitudes of the counsellees are accurate .
17 New ways of coping can be shared , and solutions to problems can be found based on the values and ideas of their generation , not according to the views and attitudes of the modern world .
18 This is , of course , bound up with the personalities and attitudes of the persons concerned and the history of their relationships .
19 However , it is important to acknowledge that judgements about old people 's living conditions and standards are , inevitably , coloured by the background and attitudes of the care workers .
20 This will enable you to concentrate on the business of making profit and on the skills and attitudes of the people contributing to it .
21 It concerns the relation between language and its users , and combines two categories which are often kept separate in functional models : the affective or emotive function ( communicating the speaker 's attitudes ) , and the directive function ( influencing the behaviour and attitudes of the hearer ) .
22 The policies and attitudes of the autocracy virtually ruled out the emergence of a moderate , reformist labour movement .
23 They include the characteristics , background and attitudes of the people involved , the effects of socialization in the tenure type and the ways in which successive post-war governments and parties have encouraged owning at the expense of renting .
24 These include the size of the prison , the nature of its population , the availability and attitudes of the staff , the number of competing activities , the effectiveness of the chaplain and the tradition of the place .
25 The humanity and realism expressed in the faces and attitudes of the figures which decorate the doorway are in contrast to the stylised figures of the earlier Romanesque carvings .
26 Planning delays are legion and it is essential to know the track record and attitudes of the planning office responsible for the area in which the site is situated .
27 In the Midlands he took a tram in Birmingham : These were years then of a heightened dissatisfaction with our towns and cities , and every-day lives and attitudes of the British people ; the social history of the 1930s is one of bitter years ( Branson and Heinemann , 1971 ) .
28 The views and attitudes of the innovative agency Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury are explored elsewhere in Wave so I wo n't dwell on them here .
29 How might the behaviour and attitudes of the pupils be affected by the organization of the school and the teachers ' attitudes and expectations ?
30 It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important .
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