Example sentences of "strong interest [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Education again provides a good example : central government has a strong interest in the provision of an education service which meets its perception of national priorities ; local people , especially parents , expect to have considerable influence over the education provided for their children .
2 His sister Olivia , a spiritualist with a strong interest in the occult , joined him .
3 Barth was deeply suspicious of this entire concern , which he had earlier tried to combat in Gogarten , who through the 1920s had developed a strong interest in the theology of ‘ the orders of creation ’ .
4 On evidence ( to date limited ) , Gorbachev , like his patron , has shown a strong interest in the East German reforms , which strengthen the centre ( the State planning Commission ) and enterprises at the expense of intermediaries ( ministries ) — rather than the Hungarian reform , which strengthens markets .
5 The 1960s were marked by a strong interest in the relationship between primary and secondary education , and in possible changes in the age of transfer from one to the other .
6 When the Drama sub-committees of the Schools Council English Panel were presented with a proposition from Lynn McGregor , a London teacher with a strong interest in the sociology of education and her own research into Drama teaching on its way ( 1976 ) , to launch a full-scale research project , the climate seemed ripe for the subcommittee to make a recommendation .
7 Yet many had a strong interest in the control and positive redirection of violence .
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