Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] interested [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NCR Corp has long been interested in offering a high degree of fault-tolerance on its computers , and its final line of mainframes , the 9800s , were claimed to be fault-tolerant . |
| 2 | Myrtle has always been interested in sport and gymnastics and first started Medau work eighteen years ago . |
| 3 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Israel , ’ says one senior official , ‘ has never been interested in emigration as such , but in aliya — in having as many Jews as possible come to Israel . ’ |
| 5 | Francis has never been interested in the business and he 's never pulled his weight . |
| 6 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 7 | This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in . |
| 8 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 9 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 10 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 11 | Sociologists had long been interested in why many working-class pupils did not do as well as middle-class children at school . |
| 12 | The Magistrate had long been interested in Lucy but not because Cupid had at last managed to lodge an arrow in his stony heart . |
| 13 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 14 | Those who found politics interesting in the campaign but had not been interested in politics a year earlier gave the press high ratings for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 15 | The Kaszubes had not been interested in the fate of Poland at the time of the partitions , and had been reasonably well satisfied by early Prussian rule . |
| 16 | My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc . |
| 17 | You know you 've not been interested in sex for years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always been interested in the light comedy of life , so I 've created my own world , ’ says Doisneau . |
| 19 | Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner . |
| 20 | Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner . |
| 21 | Erm , I 've always been interested in housing and it did appear to me that however delightful Harlow may be , when the architects were designing properties , they designed a property without any consideration for the people who were to live in them . |
| 22 | I 've always been interested in the way Crivelli used garlands in his paintings . |
| 23 | And I ca n't help seeing the manifests — in any case , I 've always been interested in them . |
| 24 | I 've always been interested in machinery . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've always been interested in old furniture and I 've swotted it up a bit in my spare time . ’ |
| 26 | She said she had always been interested in science , but had been put off because everyone told her it was n't for girls , only boys . |
| 27 | She had always been interested in beauty culture and hair-styling , so she took a job with a small hairdressing parlour in Stepney to learn the tricks of the trade and when she felt she knew enough , gave in her notice and advertised her services : Lady clients visited in the comfort and privacy of their own homes . |
| 28 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 29 | In view of his experience at Highgate School , he had always been interested in the life and tribulations of schools teachers ; and in any case he held strong views about education , about which he lacked an opportunity to state his ideas at length until he gave some lectures in Chicago in 1950 . |
| 30 | ‘ I had always been interested in flying kites ever since I was young , so when someone offered me one for sale , I jumped at the chance , ’ added , whose wife has also become hooked on the sport . |