Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has no financial obligation towards you , unless you go to a lot of trouble to prove otherwise , and that could take years . |
| 2 | Like Tanya , he has no bad feelings towards his employers and says his redundancy was handled well . |
| 3 | Every member of staff when they come on duty has a general responsibility towards all residents , but a key worker will have from three to five residents whose care is their special responsibility . |
| 4 | We know that procedural reform is now in vogue and that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has a strong disposition towards general and automatic timetabling . |
| 5 | The Irish population has a known tendency towards raised cholesterol concentrations , and it also has one of the highest mortality rates from colecterol carcinoma in the world . |
| 6 | The University has a sympathetic attitude towards such applicants . |
| 7 | So , every instructor has a special responsibility towards such people . |
| 8 | As Britain has a special responsibility towards her and her country , can the Minister tell the House what action our ambassador is taking to get access to her and to secure her release ? |
| 9 | Philosophy has an incorrigible bias towards thinking of knowledge in terms of the verbally formulable , the proposition , the logical grounding of which has nothing to do with such psychological questions as whether the knower is being acted on causally by things which the proposition is about . |
| 10 | With the robust acceptance of hardship and violence proper to his time , he is opposed to flogging and has an open demeanour towards his crew which makes him popular but still respected . |
| 11 | Humanity , which has an obvious predisposition towards goodness , has an equally strong predisposition towards evil . |
| 12 | As the DTI had failed to act when it had known of irregularities within the firm , did not the Government have a moral obligation towards the dupes ? |
| 13 | All are linked , in their own special way , with the business of selection and implementation and , in an ideal world , should have a common interest towards maintaining quality in schools . |
| 14 | ‘ Another requirement is to have the right attitude towards our competitors who run the six other heavy metal magazines . |
| 15 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 16 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 17 | Whether one applies the older notion of a trend from less to more specialized or the newer concept of a trend from an r-to a K-selected adaptive strategy ( ecologists seem to have a love-hate relationship towards r and K selection ( Dawkins , 1981 ) ) , the phyletically younger organisms would have become progressively more vulnerable to environmental disturbance . |
| 18 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 19 | I do n't think I had the right attitude towards it . |
| 20 | Criminal injuries compensation , the precursor of policies which two decades later were to be matched more closely to the actual situation of victims of crime , their needs and desires , had a mixed provenance towards which penal reform groups , official thinking and party political interests each contributed . |
| 21 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 22 | Although he knew Disraeli , from the outset he had a personal antipathy towards him , and the party leaders disliked Hope 's independent attitude . |
| 23 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
| 24 | Academic history , in spite of the moderate liberalism of some of its practitioners , had a natural bias towards preserving the past and suspecting , if not deploring , the future . |
| 25 | He had a relaxed attitude towards his learning . |
| 26 | Graduates of the Film Academy had a direct route towards a career . |
| 27 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 28 | Or perhaps Argol had an enlightened policy towards young people . |
| 29 | Many physics students , and almost all physical science students , had an instrumental attitude towards their degree courses . |
| 30 | I do n't know who it and apparently he asked him that , are , are any of your men gon na be there and if there are he said , I 'm , I 'm gon na pull out and use all my influence to stop the march and the I R A police said no there would not be any gunmen there so I thought yeah , fucking right , oh yeah that 's easy to say , and then if like the reporter said and , and you believe him and you have the feeble excuse towards a small community he said , you know what 's going on |