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 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 15 | Although he knew Disraeli , from the outset he had a personal antipathy towards him , and the party leaders disliked Hope 's independent attitude . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had a relaxed attitude towards his learning . |
| 19 | Graduates of the Film Academy had a direct route towards a career . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | In general Solihull secondary teachers have a neutral attitude towards professional development in connection with SSE . |
| 23 | In psychologists ' terms , they have a favourable attitude towards it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Inner London bureaux which began under the auspices of the Family Welfare Association were not accustomed to volunteers at all as they were staffed by paid workers and many even have a negative attitude towards them . |
| 26 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |
| 27 | AMERICANS have a weird attitude towards Ireland , which you see in Hear My Song . |
| 28 | Sikhs also have a special attitude towards saris . |
| 29 | WE ALL have a schizophrenic attitude towards safety . |
| 30 | If you have a positive attitude towards yourself and your work , it means that when problems come along they will be easier to handle , you wo n't give up too easily , and you wo n't feel sorry for yourself if things go wrong . |