Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that we should have access to the schools for everyone who is interested in education , and I think that includes teachers , so that is why I was very grateful to receive your invitation today , and I think the series is good , but I think that why we want an open society within our schools is because everyone has got a tremendous interest in education until people begin to surround it with jargon or to build walls and barriers which create a closed society . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had a life-long interest in physical research . |
| 3 | Now I work for a local authority so I 've got a big interest in this , but I 've also been involved as John will remember in a strike . |
| 4 | Ever since I have had a huge interest in any new discovery and great admiration for those who seek adventure below ground . |
| 5 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 6 | PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’ |
| 7 | Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support . |
| 8 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 9 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 10 | Approximately 100 people then took part in the business meeting when our President , Lady Braithwaite , opened the proceedings with many congratulations to the Society on the previous eventful year in which she had taken a deep interest . |
| 11 | However , those who had expressed a general interest in politics during the parliamentary mid-term were more likely to see bias on the television and in their papers early in the campaign . |
| 12 | Who had displayed a friendly interest in her . |
| 13 | Possibly one of the earliest was Miss Robb who had shown a keen interest in the purchase of a new harmonium for the Sunday School in the wooden Tabernacle . |
| 14 | ‘ This is for people who have had a passing interest in Hendrix or have caught up with his music in the advent of the CD age . |
| 15 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 16 | The same is true of the health service , the more the private health educa the pri private health welfare comes in , the less chance there is of people who are , who are articulate and people who count in British society start speaking up with the rest of us and saying come on we we 've got a common interest and a common stake in this service and we want the best po for for everybody and the same will start happening in housing if you get your way . |
| 17 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 18 | Once employed , they became difficult to dismiss either for reasons of inefficiency or economy , not only because they felt that they had acquired a vested interest in the job , but also because they " possessed information which would have been very useful to the union 's opponents " . |
| 19 | He has ordered a crippling interest rate rise this week if the Pound comes under renewed pressure . |
| 20 | I know that he had hoped to take part in this debate but had to be elsewhere ; I pay tribute to the fact that he has shown a personal interest in the case . |
| 21 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 22 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 23 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 24 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 25 | Richard Clutterbuck is a lecturer in Law in our School of Social Sciences at the University , and he 's taken a particular interest into legal aspects of violence in society . |