Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask yourself ‘ What are the pay-offs of being shy , and do I have a vested interest in maintaining them ? ’ |
| 2 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 3 | My brother Rollo and I had a consuming interest in cricket and knew the names and performances of all first-class cricketers from about 1946 onwards . |
| 4 | But I had a passionate interest in model trains . |
| 5 | is n't necessary for me to do my job , but because I have a personal interest . |
| 6 | But if I was pressed to make a choice , apart from Coldingham Loch , I would have to admit that the Whiteadder River is my favourite Border stream , and I confess that I have a vested interest in Whiteadder . |
| 7 | I have a vested interest in that painting . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 9 | So I have a certain interest , you could say a certain responsibility . " |
| 10 | I have a strong interest in languages , and although now we are trying to teach more languages in school , even in primary schooling , I do n't feel that within er my , I 'm only eighteen at the moment , by the time I 'm twenty five things still wo n't have came far enough along for me to utilize this skill . |
| 11 | I have a modest interest in pictures and antiques and I will now have more time for the sale rooms . |
| 12 | I have a particular interest in South Africa 's erm foreign policy and one of the , from the past , one of the things that South African decision makers have said to me , our dilemma is we do not know what American policy is because if we listen to the Pentagon we get a different voice coming out than if we listen to , let us say , congressional members who are visiting from the committee of foreign affairs . |
| 13 | I should like to refer briefly to something in which my right hon. and learned Friend knows that I have a passionate interest . |
| 14 | Even though the white woman is oppressed herself , she has a vested interest in apartheid . |
| 15 | The last thing she wanted was for the local press to find out that she had a personal interest in finding Angy 's killer . |
| 16 | The House of Lords eventually upheld her right , recognising that she had a genuine interest , but providers of information ( particularly the BMA ) and social services staff were extremely uneasy about the apparent danger to confidentiality of client files . |
| 17 | She had a new interest ; she was launching a huge campaign . |
| 18 | Nothing was said to indicate she had a proprietary interest in the house . |
| 19 | And I wondered if you had a personal interest as well . ’ |
| 20 | You will have invested time and effort in the activity and you have a vested interest in seeing a return from the investment . |
| 21 | ‘ And one that I know you have a personal interest in — polio . |
| 22 | SUPPOSE you have a print by Picasso , Dali , Miro or Chagall , or sold one in the past few years : you have a special interest in a Brooklyn courtroom this week . |
| 23 | He does seem to suggest , that if you 're directly interested or if you have a direct interest in something you ca n't take an objective view , and I would say that actually , members have shown their ability to erm , to achieve something different from that , the way they wear different hats at different committees , Mr comes to mind where he will argue for the D S O's , at the D S O managing board , and for the client at Education Committee . |
| 24 | By and large it is better to write an individually tailored application letter for each job , as this gives the company the feeling that you have a particular interest in that specific job . |
| 25 | It was all there in the sharp and arrogant , ‘ You have a particular interest in my secretary ? ’ with which he flattened her . |
| 26 | think of that i i i if you have a particular interest what are the other things that |
| 27 | Having come this far , we had a vested interest in Ashmunein , and we resolutely climbed the largest of its mounds . |
| 28 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 29 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 30 | ‘ We have been working with producers over ten years directly — we are very anti-market — and we have a distinct interest in the husbandry and the food and the breeds of the animals . |