Example sentences of "we have a [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having come this far , we had a vested interest in Ashmunein , and we resolutely climbed the largest of its mounds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Not because we have a vested interest , personal or impersonal , in challenging , compromising or embarrassing the ecclesiastical establishment . |
| 6 | It should be driven instead by our recognition that we have a vested interest in ensuring that the vast quantities of data that are currently being produced by government , publishing houses , banks and information services can support our many and varied processing aims . |
| 7 | ‘ We have a big interest in Russia and Russia has the same in Lithuania — they need access to the Baltic and to ( the Russian enclave of ) Kaliningrad , ’ he said after casting his vote on Sunday . |
| 8 | Algirdas Brazauskas : ‘ We have a big interest in Russia ’ |