Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] interests [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |
| 2 | Bachrach and Baratz ( 1970 ) argued that power is also exercised when some groups are prevented from raising issues that are against the interests of the powerful . |
| 3 | The Director General is responsible for reviewing commercial activities in the UK and identifying trading practices which are against the interests of consumers . |
| 4 | The Union has been in the interests of both this country and Scotland for many years , and it remains so . |
| 5 | It might be objected that even though some criminal laws are in the interests of the dominant class and that others which are obviously not in these interests are ineffectively enforced , thus making them dead-letter laws , it still remains true that laws proscribing those types of victimizing behaviours of which we are all too aware and which set the nerve-ends of neo-classical/conservative criminologists , such as Wilson ( 1975 ) and Morgan ( 1978 ) tingling with fear and loathing , are in all our interests . |
| 6 | Certainly , preventive strategies and modern medicine will tend to counteract negative selective forces and will maintain the frequency of the thrifty genotype in human populations , but , as Neel soberly pointed out , ‘ efforts to preserve the diabetes genotype through this transient period of plenty are in the interests of mankind , ’ for some time in the future we may again be glad to have it . |
| 7 | That is because they understand that the decisions that we have taken are in the interests of British industry , British commerce and jobs for British workers . |
| 8 | Good industrial relations are in the interests of everybody working in prisons . |
| 9 | Sensible policies on access , together with good systems of bibliographic control , to publicise the existence and contents of theses , are in the interests of the university libraries , the departments , and the individual researchers . |
| 10 | This implies that when the balance is temporarily favourable to the working class , the demands that it espouses , whether or not they are in the interests of the dominant class , may be translated into state policy — for example , on social welfare ( see Gough 1979 ; Esping-Andersen and Korpi 1984 ) , workers ' rights and so on . |
| 11 | Nurses are now encouraged to exercise their professional judgement in safe-guarding the interests of individual patients and clients , and for some this means exposing poor management and refusing to carry out instructions which they believe to be against the interests of their patients/clients . |
| 12 | This must be against the interests of the UK economy , and of EC consumers . |
| 13 | That would be against the interests of our industry . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend is right to pinpoint the fact that it would be against the interests of British Airways and Rolls-Royce for politicians to second-guess the commercial decision making of private companies . |
| 15 | ‘ The district council , however , is of the view that taking this case to court could lead to more damage to the area through adverse publicity and this would be against the interests of local people . |
| 16 | According to commission sources , investigating the possible racial aspects of the serious crime squad scandal would be in the interests of both the police force and the authority , which has been criticised since its formation under the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act as being ineffective and slow to act , particularly in cases of alleged assault or ill-treatment of black suspects . |
| 17 | A huge problem , though , from the conversationists ' point of view , is that it may not be in the interests of fishermen or whalers or hunters of ivory — or at least not in their financial interests — to achieve maximum sustainable yield . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , trades unions have co-operated in the development of this age discriminatory policy , believing it to be in the interests of their older and younger members alike . |
| 19 | After all , it may be in the interests of some people , especially those who introduce the new technology , not to admit to the existence of the real forces that shape the direction of technical change . |
| 20 | However , and this could easily be the case in the larger surveying organisation , it may not be in the interests of either effective management or particular individuals to maintain this full-scale participation of all members . |
| 21 | A reduction in the number of those resitting would be in the interests of both employers and students . |
| 22 | It would not be in the interests of the company to make them public ’ . |
| 23 | In a world where British influence is conspicuously waning it might not be in the interests of a secure national identity to throw it open for young Britons to gaze on . |
| 24 | You conclude that such developments would be in the interests of individual consumers . |
| 25 | It may be useful for family health services authorities within the zone to take on responsibility for arranging early retirement packages , where these could be shown to be in the interests of the service . |
| 26 | Section 142(2) provided that where a person had been convicted by the magistrates when he had pleaded not guilty or been convicted in his absence and it subsequently appeared that it would be in the interests of justice that the case be heard again by different justices the court might , subject to sub-section ( 4 ) so direct . |
| 27 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 28 | There is some suggestion of violence on the part of the mother 's current and very , so far , short-lived relationship with the man she is now with and , if that is so — and one has to accept , for the purposes of this application , the untested evidence of the father — it would not be in the interests of these children for the original order to be made after an inter partes hearing . |
| 29 | ‘ The first question to be decided by the court is whether on the undisputed or incontrovertible facts there appears to be a question deserving fuller investigation and whether it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the child for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
| 30 | Adopting that approach to the facts and circumstances of the present application I am satisfied that it raises a question deserving a fuller investigation , and , if that investigation were to favour [ the foster mother ] , that it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the children ( or one or more of them ) for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |