Example sentences of "be [adj] interest " in BNC.

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1 Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls .
2 Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging .
3 The cost has been high interest rates — above German rates and 6 p.c. or 7 p.c. above our own inflation rate — at a time of deep recession .
4 It appeared that although Taigh na Tuir had not been formally put on the market , there had already been some interest shown .
5 ‘ There has been some interest , but it is a difficult time to be selling housing sites .
6 Cottee was not transfer-listed yesterday , but it is common knowledge that Everton are open to offers and Kendall revealed there has been some interest already this season from other clubs .
7 The alternative approach is to identify and eliminate TB-infected badgers , and there has been much interest recently in developing a TB test for use on live badgers .
8 But there 's never been much interest around here .
9 In particular , there has been great interest in the practical commercial use of artificial intelligence , with many companies and even governments becoming involved .
10 Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers .
11 Janet Jackson , Paula Abdul and Whitney Houston are all interest in the title role .
12 ‘ But to be honest , I am a bit surprised there has n't been more interest considering how many I am scoring .
13 In recent years there has been considerable interest in assessing the general feasibility of predicting future violence and dangerousness in individuals and families ( see Parton and Parton , 1989 ; Parton and Small , 1989 ) .
14 According to the organisers there has already been considerable interest from a number of European and American dealers .
15 During the last 10 years , there has been considerable interest in so-called geo-demographic classifications , based on large-scale cluster analyses of Census data .
16 ‘ There has been considerable interest in our emergency procedures from major oil companies and several other industrial organisations , ’ said Emergency Planning Engineer Bill Burgoyne .
17 There has been considerable interest in social psychology to examine the processes involved in social thinking .
18 There is evidence of a growing interest in payment systems in a variety of quarters , e.g. amongst economists there is renewed interest in the link between productivity and the way labour is paid ; management theorists are paying more attention to new forms of payment within their overall interest in making in making firms more responsive ; and amongst managers and government officials there has been considerable interest expressed in performance-related pay , merit-pay and profit-sharing .
19 There has been considerable interest in recent years in the idea of motivating increased labour productivity and improved economic performance through various schemes for workers ' participation such as profit-sharing and employee stock-ownership plans .
20 There has been considerable interest , and some work , in fully quantum-optical treatments of these problems , but quantum-optical chaos ' is essentially a topic for future reference .
21 One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything
22 Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn .
23 With the emergence of chronic unemployment in the British economy in recent years , there has been growing interest in the performance of the interwar economy , when unemployment remained persistently high .
24 This makes it a more complex organization , which in turn means that there are more interest groups to satisfy .
25 Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education .
26 This might be because building societies have developed some new product which personal savers prefer to National Savings certificates or it may simply be that interest rate differentials have changed in favour of the societies .
27 While there may be some interest in this at Wembley , the sight of the empty Barcelona stadium last Sunday showed that the Spaniards have better things to do .
28 Unless she does so there will be further interest arising on those unpaid amounts in addition to the interest arising on the investigation years .
29 There will also be great interest in the displays of the two tallest forwards , lock Shade Munro , and lock-turned-flanker Andy Macdonald , the moving of the Heriot 's player into the back-row giving the Scots a very strong hand in the lineouts .
30 There will also be great interest in the displays of the two tallest forwards , lock Shade Munro , and lock-turned-flanker Andy Macdonald , the moving of the Heriot 's player into the back-row giving the Scots a very strong hand in the lineouts .
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