Example sentences of "[noun] had a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Andy Wilson , secretary of Cleveland County Council 's controlling Labour group , asked how much of the over-payment to local firms was paid to agencies in which directors of Teesside TEC had a financial interest . |
| 2 | The Felixstowe Justices case illustrates another way in which standing and merits are related : just as the journalist had a sufficient interest only in the general policy of secrecy and not in its application to a particular case , so the remedy to which he was entitled related only to the general policy . |
| 3 | At the hearing before Otton J. counsel for Lautro took a preliminary point as to whether the applicant had a sufficient interest to make an application for judicial review . |
| 4 | At a hearing before Otton J. on 15 January 1991 , when he gave leave to move , counsel for Lautro raised the question whether the applicant had a sufficient interest to entitle him to make the application . |
| 5 | The pharmaceutical industry had a legitimate interest in seeing that their own branded drugs were prescribed . |
| 6 | European nations had a common interest in opening the world to commerce . |
| 7 | On this occasion Crabb was carrying out experiments in which the Admiralty had a peripheral interest , but it would not be in the national interest to detail them , and unfortunately he drowned and his body was swept out to sea . |
| 8 | Such conceptualization of the colonial situation can not encompass any possibility that ‘ the masses , may have been internally divided , that some indigenous elements had a vested interest in colonial rule and that the formation of society was directly affected by the actions of the colonial state . |
| 9 | Because of his responsibilities for taxation as well as the banking system and building societies , the Chancellor had a special interest in the subject of financial fraud . |
| 10 | In the case of the Low Countries , England had a similar interest which was both military and commercial . |
| 11 | There are other indications that the great general had a personal interest in Greek art . |
| 12 | In the summer of that year , Jack and Roman had a common interest in the talk in Hollywood , which was , as Polanski recalled in his autobiography , largely about the drugs and sex culture , a topic fanned through their own recent and separate films , and then by the tragic events in the Polanski house . |
| 13 | The group had a net interest charge in 1993 of £1.5m after recording a net credit in 1992 . |
| 14 | Mr Bergg said suspicions were aroused when the people asking questions had a vested interest in getting a certain answer . |
| 15 | Philip had a great interest and gift with the young . |
| 16 | Philip had a special interest , understanding and affection for the delightful , difficult rogues of CUM who he would always ask about . |
| 17 | Jimmy Knapp , leader of the National Union of Railwaymen , argues that his members who took action in support of the miners during the coal strike had a genuine interest in the fight to keep pits open : fewer mines mean fewer coal trains . |
| 18 | In this case Lord Meston submits that it was implicit in the order of Judge Lally of 2 July 1991 that the father had a joint interest in and a ‘ right of custody ’ of the child , inasmuch as he had a right to be consulted and to have his views considered in relation to the determination of the child 's place of residence . |
| 19 | He says his father had a particular interest in coins . |
| 20 | Thus the Communists and the Nazis had a common interest in the destruction of the Social Democrats and this fact was frequently referred to by the Labour Party and the TUC in the early 1930s as a reason for opposing both movements with equal vigour . |
| 21 | They also found themselves in opposition to certain local commercial interests as a fair number of shares in the mining company had been sold to people in the area , and thus certain local people had a vested interest in mining going ahead . |
| 22 | It was estimated in 1913 that as many as 1.5 million people had a vested interest , directly or indirectly , in defence spending . |
| 23 | Inevitably , Mary had a vested interest in the smooth running of her department and in helping Doug out of his difficulties as a new teacher in Humanities . |
| 24 | Finally , the common law contained areas of tortious liability for interference with family and service relationships which were based upon the archaic idea that a man had a proprietary interest in the services of his family and his servants . |
| 25 | However , where kinsmen could not help , a variety of intermediary entrepreneurs had a financial interest in doing so . |
| 26 | With their faith rooted in Jewish law , the Christadelphians had a long-standing interest in cooperative ventures , contributing generously to attempts to re-establish the Jewish people in Palestine . |
| 27 | The defence of " fair information on a matter of public interest " was not enough to attract privilege unless the newspaper had a duty to publish the information to the public at large , whose members had a corresponding interest in receiving it . |
| 28 | Certainly the Catholic Church had a vested interest in Aristotelian philosophy , but much of the conflict ostensibly between science and religion turns out to have been between new science and the sanctified science of the previous generation . |
| 29 | As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties . |
| 30 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |