Example sentences of "but [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto this has led to some allegations in the Press about Whitehall obscurantism but little interest or pressure in Parliament itself . |
| 2 | Citrine and Self hoped that the rise was temporary and would be reversed ( wedded , as always , to a philosophy of cheap capital and low prices , and the world as they hoped it would be again ) , but high interest rates continued to reflect the buoyant competing demands for capital and mild inflationary tendencies in the UK economy . |
| 3 | His special offer comes as estate agents say it 's a good time to buy but high interest rates are making it difficult to sell . |
| 4 | Swindon 's got a name as a town where the bubble has n't burst , but high interest rates are giving those in the market place food for thought . |
| 5 | St Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) saw Spain as a Christian land , in which the separate identities of Goth and Roman were no longer of any but historical interest . |
| 6 | A number of papers covering various transport areas will be read by a panel of invited distinguished speakers but great interest is already being shown in the two Saturday , November 7th talks presented by the two local history societies . |
| 7 | The business ended , he began to show a discreet but kindly Interest ill our " one up , one down " home , recently rented for a pound a week ; this included , as part of the furnishings , a vase containing the ashes of the previous occupant . |
| 8 | This event held over the May Bank Holiday was not too well attended but considerable interest was shown in the Medau stand . |
| 9 | According to the report , net lending to developing countries rose from US$95,700 million in 1988 to US$99,000 million in 1989 , but higher interest payments meant that net financial transfers from developing to developed countries remained close to their 1988 level of $52,000 million , with severely indebted middle-income country transfers rising to a record US$31,700 million . |
| 10 | The overall number of entries for seven handicap races are also down on 1992 , to 394 from 443 , but Irish interest has risen sharply with 61 engaged this year , compared with 39 a year ago , which Cheltenham 's managing director , Edward Gillespie , said was great news . |
| 11 | But sky-high interest bills kept the lid on profits , up just one per cent to £353 million in the six months to July . |
| 12 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 13 | He has an excellent background in support , not involved in in the running but continuous interest and support and for him to take on this challenge shows a particular kind of commitment to the work of the Save The Children Fund and we 're very grateful to him for taking it on and I sincerely hope that he will enjoy the experience , especially after meeting all of you today . |
| 14 | Such initiatives are on behalf of the whole profession , but special interest groups were also accorded appropriate representation . |
| 15 | By the late seventies some British academics were displaying a wary but sympathetic interest in early or classical structuralism , particularly as it was expounded in Culler 's widely read Structuralist Poetics , a lucid , urbane work which suggested that structuralism might , without too much difficulty , be adopted to existing academic practice . |