Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask yourself ‘ What are the pay-offs of being shy , and do I have a vested interest in maintaining them ? ’ |
| 2 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 3 | My brother Rollo and I had a consuming interest in cricket and knew the names and performances of all first-class cricketers from about 1946 onwards . |
| 4 | But I had a passionate interest in model trains . |
| 5 | is n't necessary for me to do my job , but because I have a personal interest . |
| 6 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 7 | I have a vested interest in that painting . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 9 | So I have a certain interest , you could say a certain responsibility . " |
| 10 | I have a strong interest in languages , and although now we are trying to teach more languages in school , even in primary schooling , I do n't feel that within er my , I 'm only eighteen at the moment , by the time I 'm twenty five things still wo n't have came far enough along for me to utilize this skill . |
| 11 | I have a modest interest in pictures and antiques and I will now have more time for the sale rooms . |
| 12 | I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs . |
| 13 | I should like to refer briefly to something in which my right hon. and learned Friend knows that I have a passionate interest . |
| 14 | Such a structure is in contrast to a structure which , once negotiated , is subject to little questioning , which orders activities on a termly or a yearly basis , and which has a declared interest in the future than the present . |
| 15 | It is difficult to imagine any body of persons which has a greater interest in the proper and fair working of legal aid … |
| 16 | Whitbread chief executive Peter Jarvis would not comment on possible closer links with Heineken , but senior company sources say a share deal with Heineken could be a means of loosening the connection with Whitbread Investment Company , which has a dominant interest in Whitbread 's split-voting share structure . |
| 17 | Wide local powers , it is said , were transferred from semi-autonomous secular magnates to wealthy and disciplined ecclesiastical corporations which had a natural interest in sustaining royal power . |
| 18 | It almost certainly means they must counter those forces within the prison system which have a vested interest in expansion . |
| 19 | The following table shows the proportions of non-publishing researchers at the universities which have a major interest in Scottish geology . |
| 20 | The following table shows the proportions of non-publishing researchers at the universities which have a major interest in Scottish geology . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there is one group of surveys of painting which have a special interest : those which form part of handbooks or , more grandly , treatises on how to paint . |
| 22 | But this was n't his case ; he could discuss it with the detachment of a man who has a professional interest but no responsibility . |
| 23 | Where there is no trust beneficiary who has a beneficial interest in possession in the property , of course , some other way of fixing the rate has to be found ; and in the case of Gartside v IRC ( 1968 ) AC 553 the House of Lords has held that where there was a discretionary trust with a power to accumulate income , the interest of the group of beneficiaries did not constitute an ‘ interest in possession ’ for the purposes of estate duty . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth ( Mr. Pawsey ) , who has a great interest in education , spoke for a long time , as did other hon. Members on both sides of the House . |
| 25 | These impressions he/she could perhaps spell out , verbalizing them for the benefit of the student and anyone else who has a legitimate interest in knowing how the student is seen by people close to him/her . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're not technical , it 's very impotant to buy through someone who has a vested interest in supporting you , ’ says managing director Tony Gamble . |
| 27 | Elaine Fullard from Oxford , who has been influential in developing the role of nurse facilitators for prevention in primary care , and Anita Berlin from St Mary 's Medical School , who has a particular interest in teaching communication skills , have also been to Brazil as part of the programme . |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman , who has a special interest in this matter , must be aware that the first information on the Iraqi contract came through a leaked letter and not directly from UKAEA . |
| 29 | Polybius acts as a Greek who has a vital interest in the proper functioning of the Roman hegemony over Greece . |
| 30 | Even though the white woman is oppressed herself , she has a vested interest in apartheid . |