Example sentences of "an interesting " in BNC.

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1 There is no need to be intimidated by the formality of a staid institution 's catalogue , or to neglect popular magazines ; as for writing in various academic disciplines , there ought to be no barrier to learning about an interesting topic .
2 Yet for a work in a public square this is an interesting aspect of art criticism .
3 Imposture is shown in Ackroyd 's novel , in this burlesque of the literary life , to be an interesting business , but it is unlikely to cause Chatterton 's reputation to inch back towards what it was in the retrospects of the Romantic period .
4 WHILE complimenting David Tarpey on an interesting article on tourism in Dublin ( Caterer , 22–28 August ) , I would like to point out that Dublin 's millennium was in 1988 not 1989 .
5 And fancy telling me that there was an interesting stoup in that old church on the island . ’
6 ‘ It 's an interesting little puzzle when you think about it like that .
7 Some recent research undertaken at the British Film Institute for a documentary on the history of black people and television has unearthed an interesting fact .
8 This new hobby developed during an interesting period for the British press .
9 Compassion 's an interesting word — when you break it down it literally means ‘ to suffer with ’ .
10 It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles .
11 An interesting and persistent form of spinal injury occurs when you try to hold your body upright while performing the roundhouse kick .
12 Leonard has admitted to a general feeling in the family that Horace was somewhat ‘ arrogant ’ , this son that now wore the mantle : ‘ My father was the eldest but his health and nature ( an interesting , significant addition ) prevented him taking over . ’
13 ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . )
14 Pylyshyn ( 1984 ) contains an important account of the relationship between cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence , and Pylyshyn ( 1973 ) contains an interesting discussion of the differences between cognitive science and phenomenology .
15 ‘ It 's an interesting idea .
16 There is an interesting story behind the SuperCut woodcarving disc for angle grinders .
17 On the fruitwood I was working it left an interesting rippled effect .
18 All round , an interesting tool , that sits comfortably in the hand , is kind to the elbow , and does n't cost an arm and a leg .
19 It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built .
20 An interesting point to note in real Spanish folk dance is that the boy and girl rarely touch each other .
21 Dry hop flavour is an interesting application since the use of a liquid extract allows a more accurate and consistent flavour to be produced .
22 If you 've an interesting d-i-y tale to share , we 'd like to hear from you .
23 Ornaments , such as an interesting pot or a bust on a plinth , which make good daytime focal points , also look good at night .
24 An amorous meeting is forecast , so keep yourself smart , sociable and suitably alert for what promises to be an interesting episode .
25 With both the motive for the murder and the brave rescue Crime and Punishment sets the pattern for later Dostoevsky ; his post-Siberian notebooks swarm with admonitions like ‘ Decide the matter definitely one way or the other ’ , and with the X marks the spot of ‘ Here a podvig is achieved ’ ; and in the other novels , as in Crime and Punishment , the actual outcome of such promptings makes an interesting study .
26 However a small scattering of calibrated stations could provide an interesting and potentially significant source of scientific date on radio propagation .
27 This emphasis made the so-called ‘ monologic ’ forms of literature problematical , and Lodge quotes from an interesting late essay by Bakhtin which seems to suggest that all literary discourse is to some degree dialogic .
28 John Bayley provides an interesting instance .
29 One scene in the BBC Nice Work will present an interesting test-case for Lord Rees-Mogg .
30 Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself .
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