Example sentences of "an attitude [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know there 's an attitude at home — men are people but women are only women — but that 's not the same things as putting your women in purdah . ’ |
| 2 | Also fitted as standard : a handy fuel store in the hump and an attitude to water conservation which , if widely adopted , would halve the price of water shares overnight . |
| 3 | The very unfamiliarity , now , of the language and concepts of Christianity makes it possible to present these anew both as a moral ideal and an attitude to humanity and the capacities of humanity . |
| 4 | Many of the cathedrals are former parish churches and they retain an attitude to music which is more appropriate to a parish than to a cathedral . |
| 5 | Academician Dmitriy Likhachev , the highly-respected Chairman of the Russian International Culture Fund said : ‘ If such a policy towards culture continues , I will have to apply for citizenship in a foreign country , because it is not worth living in a country whose government has an attitude to culture like ours . |
| 6 | Frankly , I believe that It begins in an attitude to life which is almost mystical , if not religious , in its orientation and approach . |
| 7 | In Schorske 's words , only in Austria was aestheticism ‘ not a form of protest versus bourgeois civilization ’ but ‘ an expression of that civilization , an affirmation of an attitude to life in which neither ethical nor social ideals played a dominant part ’ . |
| 8 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 9 | Such an attitude to nature has always been hideous . |
| 10 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 11 | A characteristic of the Kingdom is an attitude of forgiveness which further should pervade all our relationships . |
| 12 | So , while doubt is a state of suspension between faith and unbelief , unbelief is a state of mind which is closed against God , an attitude of heart which disobeys God as much as it disbelieves the truth . |
| 13 | Working the 12 step Programme is not an end in itself but the method by which the sufferer is transformed from negativity to positively , from sickness to health and from a life of belligerence and blaming to a life that focuses upon creativity and an attitude of gratitude . |
| 14 | Rousseau 's vision of the citizen 's attitude toward his community is , of course , an example of an attitude of identification . |
| 15 | The local garrison of French soldiers at Abéché did not intervene , the French government having adopted an attitude of neutrality in what it regarded as an " internal affair " . |
| 16 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 17 | To enter the Kingdom of Heaven one has to come as a little child , with an attitude of trust , and prepared to be teachable and flexible ( Matt. |
| 18 | It marked the end of the possibility of an attitude of withdrawal for the papacy . |
| 19 | The more common form shows the hands in an attitude of prayer , centre-chest height , with the fingertips touching and , occasionally , the thumbs crossed ; the second position involves the crossing of the arms with fingertips at centre chest , the right arm being placed over the left and the fingers of both hands remaining closed but outstretched ; finally , there is the attitude of total repose , legs slightly parted at the knees , the shoulders down and the hands placed over the groin , again with the right hand over the left and the fingers together yet unclasped . |
| 20 | The male figure of the pair has his arms across his chest , level with the bottom of the rib-cage , whereas the wife has her hands resting on the chest and clasped in an attitude of prayer . |
| 21 | At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent . |
| 22 | Returning to the table , he put his hands together in an attitude of prayer . |
| 23 | Blanche leant forward on her desk , her hands in an attitude of prayer , her eyes unfocused with thought . |
| 24 | She laid the plates before them , wished them ‘ Bon appetit ’ , clasped her hands and stood in an attitude of expectation , awaiting their comments . |
| 25 | This means that testing must be done with an attitude of love and helpfulness . |
| 26 | To frame a programme , a manifesto , or a legislative act , a dim sense of injustice is not enough , still less an attitude of defiance . |
| 27 | She treated his sarcasm with the contempt it deserved , unconsciously raising her chin in an attitude of defiance . |
| 28 | That consent to be bound by the law is an expression of such an attitude of loyalty and identification ( i.e. a sense of belonging ) is a matter of fact . |
| 29 | The old lady was lying back against her bank of pillows in an attitude of exhaustion , her eyes closed . |
| 30 | This is an attitude of life which the twentieth-century Church urgently needs to recapture . |