Example sentences of "[be] of [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since . |
| 2 | Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members . |
| 4 | The prisoner 's dilemma — a game where two players have to decide whether to co-operate with each other or cheat — has long been of great interest to economists . |
| 5 | The state of the weather has always been of great interest and almost every column has a full account . |
| 6 | Although I am anxious to avoid entering into aesthetic theory or acting theory to any large extent it has to be conceded that the topic I have been tackling here , the logical relationship between emotion occurring and emotion described has been of central interest to aestheticians and acting theorists alike . |
| 7 | We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives . |
| 8 | In Britain public examination results have always been of internal interest to schools , although they have been used as only crude indicators in evaluating a school 's performance . |
| 9 | So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest . |
| 10 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 11 | Locke 's discussion of personal identity , which was added in the second edition of the Essay on the suggestion of Molyneux , has been of lasting interest to philosophers . |
| 12 | Everything was very hush-hush , and it was not until it was over that the name of the target was made common knowledge — not that it would have been of any interest to us if we had known beforehand , because none of us had ever heard of it . |
| 13 | Variations of the theme , e.g. with different boundary conditions or with internal heating replacing heating from below , have been of some interest ; but all the specific results in this chapter will relate to the conditions above . |
| 14 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 15 | One must appreciate that with the passing of time all things progress ; what may have been of considerable interest to one generation may not be to the next . |
| 16 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 17 | An ongoing project is concerned with the assessment of mineral deposits such as building materials and industrial minerals for local use ( which are of little interest to international mining companies ) , and the development of techniques for beneficiating minerals from such deposits . |
| 18 | She states in an initial survey of the various theories of metaphor that those of most philosophers are of little interest to her because they treat metaphor from the point of view of its semantic content , ignoring the way it functions linguistically ( 1955a:45 , 1958a:15 ) . |
| 19 | " Meanings " are neither equated with speakers ' intentions , nor with recipients ' interpretations ; both are looked on as mental entities which are of little interest as long as they do not " materialize " in interaction . |
| 20 | Orbits in Schwarzschild space–time are of general interest , and so the opportunity will be taken to include a number of comments not directly relevant to the calculation of Mercury 's orbit . |
| 21 | Articles are research reports whose conclusions are of general interest and which are sufficiently rounded to be a substantial advance in understanding , They should not have more than 3,000 words ow text ( not including figure legends ) or more than six display items and should not occupy more than five pages of Nature . |
| 22 | The data established the depth to basement rocks , and are of hydrogeological interest because anomalous conductivities arising from saline water at the base of the chalk aquifer are readily detectable . |
| 23 | There is also work on photorefraction — investigating the properties of certain fibre and structures — and spectroscopy , to help understand better the properties of doped silicate materials and substances like fluorides that are of major interest to developers of solid-state lasers . |
| 24 | Some of its pharmacological properties are of great interest to scientists trying to understand how the brain works . |
| 25 | Equally importantly , its many appendices are of great interest and benefit to the historical researcher . |
| 26 | Turning its back on influences such as the distortion of art , systematic distortion , anti-photography and anti-perspective , the work of the Pop Artists represents a restoration , a reintegration of ideas which are of great interest to me and which perhaps appear extraordinary . |
| 27 | These articles are of great interest , though some of the views in them have been controverted . |
| 28 | The latter have produced wild flowers and butterflies which are of great interest to visitors and school children . |
| 29 | In one review Apollinaire referred to ‘ the very abstract painting of Mondrian ’ , and added in another , ‘ his trees and his portrait of a woman are of great interest . ’ |
| 30 | In such areas the gaps are of great interest — were there settlements there , and , if not , why not ? |