Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] towards [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to childraising , although they were libertarian towards the baby , they seemed conservative towards Phoebe 's needs : demand feeding and endless devotion seemed to be required of her . |
| 2 | Conservative politicians were over-confident that they knew the right policies , and to a large extent they were contemptuous towards the professional teacher . |
| 3 | They were more articulate , had seen something of the wider world , retained a thirst for knowledge , and were sceptical towards the Church . |
| 4 | There were some Romans who did not believe in all their own pagan gods but who were inclined towards the idea of one universal God . |
| 5 | There were , of course , shipowners who had sympathy with the problems of seamen and who were inclined towards the union cause . |
| 6 | Before the Army became involved , media accounts often referred to the political background to the conflict and were sympathetic towards the Civil Rights movement ( Hillyard , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | He was conciliatory towards the Lords over jurisdiction and towards the Crown over prerogative . |
| 8 | In the company of like-minded friends in the community , advance was possible towards an increasing understanding of the substance of faith and of advance towards the vision of God . |
| 9 | He was contemptuous towards the United Nations , critical of the operation of the western alliance , and hostile to supranationalist tendencies in Europe ( even though , for pragmatic reasons , he had honoured the Treaty of Rome and taken France into the Common Market ) . |
| 10 | Between 1947 and 1961 des Forges and Harber recorded an annual average of about 10 , but noted that some decline was evident towards the end of this period . |
| 11 | He flew through a wild cross-fire of small-arms and caught up with the third bomber just as it was taxi-ing towards a hangar . |
| 12 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 13 | I was sympathetic towards the subject and not averse to carrying out some research in that field if the opportunity arose but had no intention of studying it myself . |