Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a life-long interest in physical research . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ever since I have had a huge interest in any new discovery and great admiration for those who seek adventure below ground . |
| 4 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | He has ordered a crippling interest rate rise this week if the Pound comes under renewed pressure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 16 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 17 | 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 . |