Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] towards [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or does a difficult birth seem to be associated with schizophrenia because it causes the mother to feel overprotective or guilty towards the child who started life so badly ? |
| 2 | Statements are either favourable or unfavourable towards the object . |
| 3 | Firstly , the foal learns to behave like its mother , and to be bossy or passive towards the various other horses ; and secondly , and perhaps most importantly , because the foal is seen as part of its mother . |
| 4 | May they come out of it more secure , but level-headed and magnanimous towards the Palestinians . |
| 5 | Germaine lived with her mother and Modigliani was courteous and considerate towards the older woman . |
| 6 | He gave her an unhappy smile and excused himself , flopping off his stool and lumbering towards the gents . |
| 7 | The feelings aroused by these relationships are not just affectionate ones , but also hostile and negative towards the parent who is not so affectionate . |
| 8 | It remains unconvinced about the plausibility of ‘ ultimate victory ’ in the face of the region 's myriad problems and widespread anti-Western animus and sceptical towards the categories of ‘ Goodies v Baddies ’ , which have been used in the past to call the West to arms . |
| 9 | As he gestures , his robe slips and I can see his penis , which is inky black and purplish towards the ( circumcized ) tip . |
| 10 | Fiver was already beyond them and thrusting towards the farther entrance tunnel . |
| 11 | By the twelfth hour of day , as the sun sailed west and inclined towards the horizon , finally allowing the north wind to bring its cooling relief , still no one had come . |
| 12 | The Etudes , too , are a mixed success , movingly rich and contained in the tortuous near-Wagnerian chromaticism of Op. 10 No. 6 , thrillingly powerful and rhetorical in the octave storms of Op. 25 No. 10 , but inclined towards an outsize , Lisztian thunder in the concentrated wit and delicacy of Op. 25 , Nos. 3 and 4 . |