Example sentences of "more than [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , the underlying holdings of serious reference works , older classics , local history and other works of more than ephemeral interest would fall to such a low level that most readers ' questions and serious enquiries could not be answered without outside help . |
| 2 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 3 | There are two reasons why this 1956 mono recording of Orff 's well-worn choral work is of more than usual interest . |
| 4 | ANEW portrait of Jesse Jackson , showing him as a blond , blue-eyed white man , attracted more than aesthetic interest when it was displayed on a Washington street corner last Wednesday . |
| 5 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 6 | Our more cynical age , though , might suspect that Gilbert 's generosity was motivated by more than spiritual interest in the boy 's welfare ! |
| 7 | Anyone who withdraws more than net interest or pledges the Tessa as security for a loan immediately loses the tax exemption and has to pay tax on all interest credited up to that time as though it were income arising during the year when the withdrawal or pledge took place . |
| 8 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 9 | The difference in response rates achieved is of more than passing interest . |
| 10 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 11 | After three years of exceptionally low rainfall , especially on the eastern side of England , it is of more than academic interest to know just how much rain has fallen on the garden . |
| 12 | This point is of more than academic interest since there are , in fact , quite significant differences in the functional organization of apparently homologous structures in different species . |
| 13 | The parallel between this and the equivalent position today between Britain and Germany is of more than academic interest . |
| 14 | Recent work by Zeki ( 1983a , b ) shows that Land 's theory is of more than theoretical interest because cells in area V4 have properties compatible with it whereas cells in Vl do not . |
| 15 | Grade II* : particularly important buildings of more than special interest . |
| 16 | That way , any bets taken could be put in a bank or something and earn more than enough interest to pay out the sad scum twat who made the bet . |
| 17 | For the majority of the population , it seems that , now as before , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was of no more than secondary interest . |
| 18 | It gave them something more than local interest to build on . |
| 19 | There is a chained library of 1500 books and many works of more than local interest . |
| 20 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 21 | These studies of immediate memory span are of more than historical interest because the fact that there is such a severe limit is important in the design of information presentations of technical data — a standard ergonomics problem . |