Example sentences of "to take [art] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus s.309 of the Companies Act 1985 does not regard the interests of the employees and the shareholders of the company as irrecon-cilably opposed , expecting the directors to be able to take the interests of the employees into account whilst performing their duties to the company , including the shareholders . |
| 2 | She seemed to take no interest at all in his work and did n't even take care of him . |
| 3 | He seemed to take no interest in his wife 's wealth as such ; in fact Alexandra could never remember him buying anything unless it was for the farm or some little thing for her . |
| 4 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 5 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 6 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 7 | Just as he maintained an interest in psychological theories of childhood , such as those of Iovetz-Tereshchenko , so he continued to take an interest in some of the anthropological material which came his way . |
| 8 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 9 | Woosnam enjoys his wine and is beginning to take an interest in it , but he will probably opt for a pint of ale before the night is out . |
| 10 | Patron and client may be compadres , in which case the patron is expected to take an interest in the child . |
| 11 | Most were from people he barely knew — mothers hoping that he might be induced to take an interest in their daughters , hostesses needing a young man who was prepared to dance . |
| 12 | This explains Conservative dislike of the churches ' drawing attention to the question of the duties of government to the citizenry — it was not regarded as proper for the churches to take an interest in political matters of this kind . |
| 13 | Nowadays , that sort of conduct could lead to a social worker 's being asked to take an interest in the child . |
| 14 | Liam was n't sure , but he had the feeling Nellie was beginning to take an interest , and was even enjoying herself as they sat in the bus . |
| 15 | MPs are beginning to take an interest in the issue . |
| 16 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 17 | So she was predisposed to take an interest in and visit Sir Cedric Morris 's open garden day in the first place . |
| 18 | Much knowledge has been accumulated since the antiquarians first started to take an interest , and archaeology has become an increasingly scientific discipline , using modern techniques such as aerial photography which has vastly increased the number of known sites , and carbon dating which has caused radical rethinking of accepted chronology . |
| 19 | It was as if , in some strange way , it was beneath his dignity to take an interest in her . |
| 20 | It goes on , correctly , to show how Jack Blum , an investigator who worked for Democratic Senator John Kerry 's subcommittee on terrorism , narcotics and international Relations , played a key role in persuading the New York district attorney , Robert Morgenthau , to take an interest in BCCI and begin his own investigation . |
| 21 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 22 | Mr and Mrs M still continued to take an interest in the family , to offer them friendship ; they still wrote letters , and sought answers to a number of questions on proper procedures . |
| 23 | Like other groups , they are likely to be interested in expansion , and can be expected to take an interest whenever there is a possibility of another hotel coming onto the market . |
| 24 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 25 | She began to take an interest in the Sleuthing Committee . |
| 26 | RANDALL LIEBERMAN explains the reluctance of trendsetters like the 3.25 million circulation magazine Sports Illustrated to take an interest in Rugby . |
| 27 | One of the few American dealers to take an interest in British Romanticism , Richard L. Feigen has taken advantage of the excellent exhibition of Sir Thomas Lawrence 's work at the Mellon Center at Yale to mount his own show , coupling Lawrence with Sir David Wilkie , an artist barely known to Americans . |
| 28 | In 1959 I started to take an interest in flight data recorders and it appeared to me that they ought to be fitted to large public transport aircraft as a legal requirement . |
| 29 | Foreign investors , from Japan , South Korea and Taiwan , among others , have started to take an interest in its industries , such as textiles and carpet-making . |
| 30 | He was pretending to take an interest in the Edberg-McEnroe fourth-rounder at Wimbledon , further claiming to see an encouraging paradigm in Edberg , the expressionless icicle , versus McEnroe , the scowling has-been . |