Example sentences of "had little interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than any Prime Minister , perhaps , since Douglas-Home , she had little interest in the development or clash of ideas . |
| 2 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 3 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 4 | Although his uncle was a keen Pentecostalist , his family had a strong Orange background , and his parents were ‘ saved ’ , Foster had little interest in religion or politics . |
| 5 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 6 | The Iranians , of course , had little interest in vacations , but North could also make them wonderful offers in the currency they understood , TOWs : ‘ If you get the hostages out , we 'll send you a million of them . ’ |
| 7 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 8 | As ash trees are not ‘ forest trees ’ in its plantations , the Commission had little interest in them . |
| 9 | However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions . |
| 10 | Even headmen not in league with cattle thieves had little interest in strictly enforcing the regulations . |
| 11 | William Laud , who along with the king directed ecclesiastical policy throughout the 1630s , had little interest in the struggles of his beleaguered co-religionists on the continent , and was far more concerned that money be raised for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London than for the relief of Calvinist refugees from the Palatinate . |
| 12 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 13 | After the death of his wife in 1909 he took no interest in the society of women , he had little interest in food and he was a teetotaller . |
| 14 | The laity had little interest in protecting church liberties and franchises , and the clergy were mainly set in motion by the archbishop 's concern for the harmony of the realm . |
| 15 | For whilst France was interested in pursuing an atomic energy authority ( EURATOM ) she had little interest , at first , in Beyen 's idea of common market . |
| 16 | Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance . |
| 17 | Tyler Blacklock had little interest in the millinery world , for he hardly ever wore a hat and so did not move in such circles ; neither had he made enquiries with regard to Beth or her husband . |
| 18 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 19 | Marsh had little interest in geological changes or in evolution . |
| 20 | Clements had little interest in evolution . |
| 21 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
| 22 | But little of the necessary reading for " Schools " interested me : I had little interest in constitutional development , political theory or economic growth , none at all in the Industrial Revolution and the technical and scientific achievements that ushered in the modern age . |
| 23 | Through the gap in the curtains , also casement cloth , a romantic moon shone down on her , but Sally-Anne had little interest in romance or the moon . |
| 24 | Lavinia had had relationships before although he himself had little interest in women . |