Example sentences of "have a keen interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : The Royal Statistical Society indeed has a keen interest in government statistics ( 'Moves to monitor use of statistics by Government' , 9 October ) and is planning an open discussion meeting in December , introduced by the head of the Government Statistical Service , on the topic of public confidence in official statistics . |
| 2 | He has a keen interest in popular music and the developing laws and rights in respect of musical performers and songwriters . |
| 3 | He is the author of two booklets and has a keen interest in meditation . |
| 4 | He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn . |
| 5 | All the rooms are individually and very attractively designed ( Bernadette herself has a keen interest in interior design ) . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend has a keen interest in these matters . |
| 7 | He is a veteran of the Scouting movement and has a keen interest in Irish traditional tales , which he tells with gusto . |
| 8 | He has always had a keen interest in town twinning activities , particularly between Middlesbrough and Oberhausen . |
| 9 | ( Gledhill 1984 , p.31 ) Film structures our fantasies ( entertainment or escapism ) as well as our realities ( film as documentary ‘ evidence ’ or information ) and each function in itself is ample reason why feminists should have a keen interest in the cinema . |
| 10 | Apart from harmonizing measures formulated for the purpose of establishing a common market , whose regulators will have a keen interest in acts in one member State that can produce effects in others , most harmonization instruments dealing with contracts are confined to international transactions . |
| 11 | ( See Table ) Peter Brooke , educated at Marlborough , Balliol College , Oxford and Harvard , is an old-school Tory known to have a keen interest in pictures and in conservation , especially of churches . |
| 12 | However , since all readers of Update might reasonably be expected to have a keen interest in training issues , the Training and Development Lead Body ( TDLB ) has been chosen to illustrate how at least one such organisation has taken up the challenge to develop qualifications for its sector . |
| 13 | But he had a keen interest in a deal . |
| 14 | Traditionally , county councils have been more preservationist-minded than many of their local district councils , often because their membership showed a higher proportion of large landowners who had a keen interest in preserving the countryside , even before concern for the environment became a fashionable issue . |
| 15 | None the less , I am delighted that many of my hon. Friends who I know have a keen interest in the subject of regional government are in their places this morning . |