Example sentences of "have a [adj] [noun] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The University has a sympathetic attitude towards such applicants . |
| 5 | So , every instructor has a special responsibility towards such people . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Humanity , which has an obvious predisposition towards goodness , has an equally strong predisposition towards evil . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 18 | Although he knew Disraeli , from the outset he had a personal antipathy towards him , and the party leaders disliked Hope 's independent attitude . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had a relaxed attitude towards his learning . |
| 22 | Graduates of the Film Academy had a direct route towards a career . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Or perhaps Argol had an enlightened policy towards young people . |
| 25 | Many physics students , and almost all physical science students , had an instrumental attitude towards their degree courses . |
| 26 | Newton was sufficiently imaginative to see not only that ‘ there is something alike ’ in the falling of a stone and the rising of the tides , but also that all bodies ‘ have a mutual tendency towards each other ’ . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind that you 're rich enough to live in Surrey , and some people ca n't even afford a roof over their head do n't you think you have a moral obligation towards these people ? |
| 28 | In general Solihull secondary teachers have a neutral attitude towards professional development in connection with SSE . |
| 29 | In psychologists ' terms , they have a favourable attitude towards it . |
| 30 | Because of their heavy running costs , the big companies have a built-in disposition towards the type of popular music which is capable of the widest-possible appeal . |