Example sentences of "[noun pl] ['s] attitudes " in BNC.

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1 The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well .
2 But it remains essential that I know their candidates ' attitudes before deciding .
3 Clients ' attitudes may also have a bearing on which alternative is chosen .
4 The same case could , of course , have been made about listeners ' attitudes to the number and length of speeches to which they were now to be subjected .
5 Their main objective is to study the effect of prescriptive ideologies on listeners ' attitudes to the alternating variants .
6 A small survey of drinkers ' attitudes ( see box , below ) showed that people thought reduced alcohol products were massively overpriced and an irrelevant halfway house ( ‘ I either drink or I do n't ’ was a typical comment ) .
7 As discussions ensue , I am frequently surprised by the rigidity of my enquirers ' attitudes .
8 Mike Abrahams , chief enforcement officer at Lautro and the man most involved in regulating tied agents , is dismayed by life companies ' attitudes .
9 Asian parents ' attitudes to their daughter 's education vary tremendously with their religion , background in Pakistan or India , and , of course , with the people involved .
10 This is how Meena , a Gujerati Hindu girl whose family come from Bombay , described her parents ' attitudes :
11 Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes .
12 This included deciding between day care or school , and parents ' attitudes to different options .
13 ( Root , 1983 ) Root 's book describes how parents ' attitudes , initially influenced mainly by their own memories of school learning ( for example , insistence on repetition of a book till learned , over-emphasis on word accuracy ) , changed radically .
14 Based on extensive research , it concluded that parents ' attitudes to education were of supreme importance in influencing children 's educational success — more so than the parents ' educational or occupational status , than material circumstances at home , and than schools themselves .
15 A factor for some of us in so doing was the fact that we have been saddened and sickened at the supermarkets ' attitudes in exploiting the European difficulty .
16 It might attract visitors , but the study indicated that visitors ' attitudes towards such ostentation were that it would be reflected in the price of the products .
17 The first is a perceptible change in judges ' attitudes to judicial review .
18 The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable .
19 Some industrial consumers regretted that the Boards ' attitudes to tariffs were much more rigid than that of their predecessors ( who had been more willing to negotiate special rates ) .
20 Evaluations may also be made of the whole work group so that judgements are made of workers ' attitudes and performance at both levels .
21 In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying .
22 The second main study of industrial workers ' attitudes was carried out by Brown and Levin in the early 1970s , with a national sample of over 2,000 weekly-paid workers .
23 However , there is little direct evidence as yet on how such schemes actually affect workers ' attitudes to the company performance .
24 It has to be emphasized that , for those who support the Mobilizing Ideal , these authoritarian features of British governments ' attitudes and behaviour towards the media are not defects but virtues .
25 The main concern of the chapters on international relations is with facts revealing the changes of states ' attitudes .
26 From her knowledge of the artists ' attitudes to their work , she pointed to the part that uncertainties played in the process of making their sculpture .
27 Basically , it was a late surviving example of 19th century employers ' attitudes towards their staff : checking up on them all the time or they 'd have their hands in the till , It was straight out of H.G. Wells ' Mr Kipps .
28 The probable significance of all this is that it is mistaken to attempt to generalize about employers ' attitudes to young workers .
29 Richards argues that employers ' attitudes imply a dual system of work experience — image building for the high-fliers and realism for the rest .
30 According to Angela John 's history of the struggle , By The Sweat of Their Brow ( Croom Helm , 1980 ) opposition to the women 's work focused on control over their sexuality and motherhood and on the employers ' attitudes — some supported the women because they were cheap labour .
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