Example sentences of "an interest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bell said : ‘ If children develop an interest through PE they can feed into local clubs and take part in a worthwhile leisure activity for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 2 | Every prospective seller or owner dealing with someone interested in acquiring an interest over land , such as a right of way or other easements . |
| 3 | No one in the sixteenth century made the mistake which was to become such a feature of later writings about her , of seeing her crimes or her innocence as a little domestic matter , locking her into a Scottish bedroom debate in which , as far as the outside world was concerned , only Elizabeth had an interest beyond the fleeting and casual . |
| 4 | He may own shares on the UK Stock Exchange and he may have an interest under a UK settlement . |
| 5 | Yet , given the opportunity and some imaginative presentation , the urban population has shown that it is capable of responding , judging by the numbers who take an interest at county shows or who turn up at the pitifully few farms which organize public open days . |
| 6 | And apparently her view now is that because the Government ha have said , anybody who is interested in becoming a in nineteen ninety three , must register an interest on sixteenth this year , which is really , that 's , you know , there legislating for what they have n't got any power in nineteen ninety three . |
| 7 | Chairman , I wish to declare an interest on the social services erm item regarding elderly person 's homes . |
| 8 | the solicitor has an existing client or an interest of his/her own which would prevent him/her from working solely in your interests . |
| 9 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 10 | In international procedural terms this required level of intensity is , at least theoretically , satisfied when a State considers it has ‘ an interest of a legal nature that may be affected by the decision in the case … ‘ , while in treaty law the emphasis is on rights and obligations . |
| 11 | It was further said that the reason for limiting the application of subsection ( 2 ) to those third parties who are knowingly concerned in the contravention is that an order addressed directly to a third party ( as opposed to the contravener acting by his servants or agents ) would only be necessary where the third party had an interest of his own in the subject-matter of the order . |
| 12 | No other person has reported an interest of 3% or more in the ordinary shares . |
| 13 | He suggested she develop an interest of her own , generously allowing her space for something else , when all her heart and mind was his forever and ever , amen . |
| 14 | Although Rule 2.3 does not say so , it is thought that a potential offeror ought not to have the responsibility for making an announcement before the target 's board is approached if rumour or speculation or an untoward price movement arises because the target 's board itself seeks potential offerors , or a shareholder seeks a purchaser for an interest of 30 per cent or more . |
| 15 | We 're having a k our entire meeting 's being taped for er for an interest of science in the interests of science for posterity for a survey on English language |
| 16 | Sterling CDs are issued at par ( i.e. with the value of the primary deposit being made ) on an interest to maturity basis for 28 days to 5 years . |
| 17 | erm it seems to me that the marriage that has an interest to your occupation , let's say , in the man 's hands |
| 18 | All six companies undertake financial analysis of those companies in which they have an interest for competitive , acquisition or divestment purposes . |
| 19 | Though taking up an interest for its own sake may also lead to new friends and a good social life , it can be helpful or necessary to join a club purely for emotional support or to forge fresh contacts . |
| 20 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 21 | You aroused an interest for me in literature which has been a resource to me for the rest of my life and a source of real enjoyment . |
| 22 | Instead of the definition of interest to be protected depending upon a balance between the economic liberty of individuals insofar as they conflict , the justification for protection of the reliance interest comprises appeals to the conservative distributive consequences of selecting an interest for legal protection . |
| 23 | Each recipient doing business in or organised under the laws of the United States of America or in areas subject to its jurisdiction represents that it is an institutional investor , expressing an interest for its own account and agrees not to purchase , distribute or sell any of the Company 's securities or any interest therein except in compliance with the above laws . ] |
| 24 | Here 's a form of declaration by a spouse or any other person who may have an interest for which , acting for a buyer , you are entitled to ask : I hereby undertake that in consideration of your entering into an agreement to purchase the above property any interest which I may have or acquire therein shall be deferred to any interest of you or any mortgagee or chargee and that I will not apply for the registration of any land charge , caution , notice or restriction in respect thereof . |
| 25 | This call will be focussed , but I have registered an interest with the DG XII official who is currently planning the round . |
| 26 | In a similar line of argument , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 14 August 1898 ) viewed the Hooligan panic as an indictment of the hypocrisy of a civilisation that took ‘ so painful an interest about moral handkerchiefs and hymn books for the barbarians of the wild Soudan ’ while turning a blind eye towards ‘ the far wilder barbarians they may find within a few paces from their own street-doors ’ . |
| 27 | In the 1702 election for Worcestershire , for example , the local Whig Bishop , William Lloyd , tried to rally his clergy and his tenants into forming an interest against the High Tory , Sir John Packington . |
| 28 | Similarly , if the accused obtains the thing by deception through inducing a mistaken belief in the mind of the victim but ownership is not transferred because of the type of mistake , the victim retains an interest within s.5(1) and accordingly the property can be stolen by the accused 's appropriation . |
| 29 | Wölflinn was naturally not ignorant of artists , but the famous phrase indicated an interest in the sequence of art seen as forms which develop as if of their own volition . |
| 30 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |