Example sentences of "the [noun pl] ' interest in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem we have found is that the hens ' interest in simple peckable objects wanes rapidly . |
| 2 | In certain dispute resolution processes , for example mediation , conciliation and enquiry , a third party assists the parties in resolving the dispute , but that person 's function is to attempt to focus the parties ' interest in its resolution , not to widen its parameters beyond their concerns . |
| 3 | They drew 1-1 in Brussels with a late equaliser from Dean Saunders a result which virtually ended the Belgians ' interest in the competition after their 3-1 defeat in Cardiff three months earlier . |
| 4 | The House of Lords accepted evidence that the NSPCC relied on anonymous informants for much of its work in child protection and held that the public interest in informants coming forward with information outweighed the parents ' interest in being able to sue a malicious busybody . |
| 5 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Will conflicts like the following restrict you ? ( a ) Conflicts of client interest ( the traditional conflicts ) : in many firms with mixed practices , the partners ' interest in maintaining work from insurers or corporate clients nearly always takes precedence over their interest in private plaintiffs . |
| 7 | They are entitled , in other words , to regard the members ' interest in the company as being in general a continuing one . |
| 8 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |
| 9 | Although the object of Formalist literary science was literariness and not individual works of literature , one of the principal consequences of the Formalists ' interest in literariness was an increased awareness of genre . |