Example sentences of "he have a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a keen interest in popular music and the developing laws and rights in respect of musical performers and songwriters . |
| 2 | He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn . |
| 3 | Oyston is also chairman and owner of Blackpool Football Club , and is seeking the permission of the League to waive their rule that no one may hold more than 10 per cent of a club if he has a financial interest in another . |
| 4 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 5 | This can often be dealt with by notifying the individual of the meeting and its purpose and saying that he will be welcome to attend if he feels that he has a specific interest in the proceedings . |
| 6 | This principle may be infringed when a member of a board takes part in the granting or the rejection of an application for a licence in which he has a personal interest . |
| 7 | Sir , — I am not at all surprised to read ( EADT March 10 ) that Mr Ken Steward of Cross Green Farm , Cockfield is unhappy about people objecting to Atlas Aggregates proposal to excavate sand and gravel from his land , as he has a vested interest in the project being approved . |
| 8 | Our client is the sole director of a private company in which he has a substantial interest . |
| 9 | He has a long-standing interest in the provision of community care for disabled and older people , through his involvement with voluntary organisations including MIND , the Alzheimer 's Disease Society , the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation and the National Aids Trust . |
| 10 | The Panel will not regard an adviser as independent if he is in the same group as the financial adviser to an offeror , or if he has a significant interest in or financial connection with either an offeror or the target company of such a kind as to create a conflict of interest ( Rule 3.3 ) . |
| 11 | The judge was satisfied that the applicant had ‘ a sufficiently arguable case , that he has a sufficient interest ’ and in the event the question of the applicant 's locus standi was not pursued before this court . |
| 12 | On this occasion , as my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin and others have pointed out , he has a special interest in being here . |
| 13 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 14 | He has a particular interest in Italian Mannerist art and also photography , especially the early history in Scotland . |
| 15 | But he had a keen interest in a deal . |
| 16 | But in his judgment Mr Justice Morland said Professor Hartt had been ‘ dishonourable and deceitful ’ by posing as a disinterested scholar when he had a financial interest in the statue 's sale . |
| 17 | A wine merchant by profession , with a well-established business in the Minories , he had a lifelong interest in cricket . |
| 18 | He had a wide interest in many things including astronomy and had read all the works of Sir Robert Ball . |
| 19 | The king might be happy to comply ; on the other hand , he had a strong interest in maintaining his pool of benefices , and sometimes tried to resume a grant on the death of a tenant , especially if the potential heir was a child . |
| 20 | He had a genuine interest in history , and , as well as using well-known figures such as Columbus , St Francis of Assisi , Joan of Arc , and Lord Nelson [ q.v. ] in his novels , he also wrote biographies , including The Life of Cesare Borgia ( 1911 ) and Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition ( 1913 ) . |
| 21 | He had a genuine interest in the stage and opera ( his longest-lived passion was the American singer , Geraldine Farrar ) . |
| 22 | He had a passionate interest in music and opera which led him to design several operatic sets . |
| 23 | He contributed heavily from his family wealth to this Church , and also to many other organisations for deaf children and adults both in Britain and on the continent of Europe ; he had a special interest in the deaf people of Ireland , and was the first President of the National Deaf and Dumb Society , forerunner of the British Deaf Association . |
| 24 | Although trained as a morphologist , he had a long-standing interest in the fossil record and published a well illustrated book on Extinct Animals in 1905 , which provided the information on prehistoric animals for Arthur Conan Doyle 's popular novel The Lost World of 1912 . |