Example sentences of "attitude to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another entry , for The Ancient Oak by Jan van Goyen ( painted in 1642 ) seeks to explain a later English attitude to a seventeenth-century work : |
| 2 | The attitude to time might tell us what he thinks , but it is the most inscrutable aspect of the novel . |
| 3 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 4 | When auditioning for most schools you will be asked to present at least two contrasting speeches and possibly give some idea of your attitude to improvisation and , perhaps , to singing . |
| 5 | And the next thing will be ‘ what is his attitude to this audition — is it positive ? ’ |
| 6 | This in fact was the main tack in the bishops ' attitude to the forum . |
| 7 | Both in the Forum Report ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii ) and in their written submission ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 ) , they not only repeated their oft-stated attitude to catholic schools , defending them from any contribution to sectarianism in Ireland , but opposed the introduction of divorce and any weakening of legislation which they felt protected the family . |
| 8 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 9 | A number of the big breweries have recently made encouraging moves towards a more sympathetic attitude to their historic pubs . |
| 10 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 've got the right attitude to life , Dorothy . |
| 12 | Do work out your own attitude to all drugs . |
| 13 | Furthermore the graduate recruits can judge the derisory attitude to academics for themselves , simply by picking up most editions of Police magazine . |
| 14 | However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground . |
| 15 | But at its start there were two great threats : the economic recession and the Thatcher Government 's attitude to nationalised industry spending limits and investment criteria . |
| 16 | The first indications of the new 1979 Conservative Government 's attitude to investment became apparent when BR sought approval to build an additional seven HST sets to cope with the first flush of growth following the launch of 125mph services on the East Coast main line the previous year . |
| 17 | The first part introduces the characters and shows how they set the action going because of their relationship or attitude to each other . |
| 18 | But their witty performance depends on the soloist 's own attitude to the fun . |
| 19 | The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice . |
| 20 | Attitude to strangers : |
| 21 | But both Pound and Lewis were American or Americanized enough to have on the contrary a professional attitude to their respective arts , in the quite precise sense that they saw the continuity of art traditions ensured by the atelier , the master instructing his prentices . |
| 22 | I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions , and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed ( an idiom , even to the end , as much British as American ) , would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts , and was at least sometimes resentful , just as Yeats was , that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile . |
| 23 | On the other hand , his account of Pound 's attitude to Fernand Léger is new to me , and fascinating . |
| 24 | Letter : Labour 's attitude to homosexual law reform |
| 25 | The apparent indifference seems to have spread to Lendl 's attitude to the remainder of this year . |
| 26 | Identifying her attitude to the emerging democracies of the Soviet bloc , disarmament , South Africa , the environment , Third World debt , and the EC , Mr Kinnock said : ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she 's from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 27 | That gate across Downing Street … the dismissal of the IRA as monsters … the same attitude to the train drivers , the doctors , the miners , Sue Lawley … |
| 28 | Perhaps the most resonant phrases in the whole debate came from the pro-rights organiser who suggested that future centuries would come to regard our attitude to animals with the same horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods which practised slavery . |
| 29 | Society , she says , may need to change its attitude to the perpetrators , from a climate where they are seen as ‘ monsters ’ faced with imprisonment to one where they can admit what has happened . |
| 30 | He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press . |