Example sentences of "interested [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of herself , she was interested of the idea of Mike , ordinary Mike , looking after all those children . |
| 2 | Instead of acting instantly in the ‘ greater interested of the game ’ and convincing Dubroca to do the honourable thing — which would have cut short the entire argument — they tried to sweep the story under the carpet . |
| 3 | While Morgan is especially interested in the gens as a stage in the history of kinship which predates the appearance of the family , and which shows that matrilineal descent preceded patrilineal descent , Marx stresses rather its significance as proof of the existence of organizing principles ( especially as regards property ) which were opposite to those of capitalism . |
| 4 | In his later works , Freud was particularly interested in the psychology of social and political groups . |
| 5 | If some anthropologists , such as Geertz , are interested in the webs of significance humans spin for themselves , while others , such as Sahlins , are more focused on the processes of how those webs are spun , both groups reveal the central role of the interpreter in shaping the material to be represented and in organising the structures in which the representations occur . |
| 6 | Lionel said to Robert , ‘ Miss Greene , you know , is more than a little interested in the Waterfall . ’ |
| 7 | Robert said only , ‘ All women are interested in the Waterfall … ’ and smiled to himself . |
| 8 | Note that the automatic assessment will NOT be made if there is any other reason why the package manager is interested in the DC eg. the DC may reference a module contained in another package managed by the user but for which auto DC has not been set . |
| 9 | The older two continued their walk , but the youngest seemed more interested in the girls than his brothers were , and stayed to dance with several of them . |
| 10 | Family members become more interested in the home and more inclined to follow their leisure pursuits in the home rather than in the wider community . |
| 11 | Modigliani was more interested in the rites and rituals of Judaism , always asking questions , although Max Jacob would wave his talk away with an impatient gesture . |
| 12 | He was interested in the music industry only insofar as it affected Virgin . |
| 13 | Virgin was interested in the Ames group and took a majority shareholding . |
| 14 | With his experience , the right hon. Gentleman will also be interested in the views of the CBI . |
| 15 | Those who are interested in the affairs of Church and State will observe that , at two of the three crossroads of Ramsey 's life , it was the State authority which secured the result . |
| 16 | I am not a prying woman , I have never really been interested in the affairs of others , I would never examine the contents of their drawers and cupboards and bathroom cabinets , as Isabel did , wherever we went to stay . |
| 17 | She had met people of this genre before — intense , smart , well-connected , impulsive , communicative , insatiably interested in the affairs of others — and she would , she supposed , upon interrogation , have classed herself , at least in aspiration , as one of the genre . |
| 18 | He tried tar made from the distillation of coal and in the distillation process became interested in the gas given off . |
| 19 | I first became interested in the Cyclades in 1961 , after I went to work on the excavations at Nea Nikomedeia , the early Neolithic village in Macedonia . |
| 20 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 21 | The typical visitor ( paying an adult admission charge of £23 ) is probably less likely to be interested in the architecture of the pavilions than in their contents . |
| 22 | It has forgotten about its opponent ; it has become interested in the architecture . |
| 23 | I like the furnishings and I was interested in the architecture . |
| 24 | In 1894 Marconi became interested in the discovery of radio waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1887–8 and resolved to recreate the original experiments . |
| 25 | Believe me , a man like that wo n't give a damn about the ideals Gran established … about caring for the welfare of the workforce , about … about the morality of labour … and besides , he wo n't be remotely interested in the textile industry ! ’ |
| 26 | She was not interested in the rest of it . |
| 27 | Confessing that he is ambitious for more power , but unlikely to get it , Mr Clark , who once described Africa as ‘ bongo-bongo land ’ , says : ‘ I 'm not interested in the rest . |
| 28 | However , an attractively designed computer is less likely to fall within the scope of registered designs because a person buying a computer is more interested in the performance of the computer ; its appearance is not important to a material extent , although it must be acknowledged that the Design Registry and the courts took a fairly liberal attitude prior to the changes to the 1949 Act and are likely to continue to be generous in this respect . |
| 29 | As a scholar Mannheim has attracted considerable attention both from commentators interested in the structure of his ideas and from those moved by the possibility of such a bold project as the sociology of knowledge . |
| 30 | It is worth emphasizing its major difference from the structuralism of the sixties and seventies : whereas this later structuralism is mainly interested in the structure of literature as a whole , to the extent that this too can be viewed as a system of signs , the Prague School version took as its main object the structure of the individual text and , like the later Formalists , viewed the individual text as a system . |