Example sentences of "to be more interested " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wölflinn used such terms to distinguish epochs ; they are only partly useful as interpretation , since Wölflinn tended to be more interested in art as an independent phenomenon than as having meaning intended by the artist . |
| 2 | Kelly noticed that , while the trainer and his wife were looking proudly at their horse , the stranger appeared to be more interested in her . |
| 3 | Connie pretends to be more interested in her friends ' motivations and feelings than her own , but ultimately they are another way of understanding herself . |
| 4 | He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ . |
| 5 | Social workers are likely to be more interested in chapter three which contains good summaries of the development , organisation and training for social work in six EC countries . |
| 6 | But even Fujitsu is said to be more interested in Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and the new Unix axis it is forging with its affiliates — see opposite . |
| 7 | The powers that be at the Tate tend to be more interested in ‘ the modern ’ than in the British tradition , so many fine or interesting British paintings are rarely if ever displayed , and to get through to those that are one has to wade one 's way through off-putting modernist rubbish , with the risk of tripping over artistic piles of bricks or tearing your clothes on sharp bits of dustbin sculpture . |
| 8 | Governments have tended in the main to be more interested in macro-rather than micro- ( individual programme ) problems . |
| 9 | And that 's why the Unionist parties have a duty to be more interested in this possible peace . |
| 10 | At its most basic , that vital component is to confront all three problems together : simple , even self-evident , and yet so often ignored in a construction climate where the all-powerful big developers tend to be more interested in low-cost employment than low-cost housing and both central and local government treat each problem in not-so-splendid isolation . |
| 11 | He seems to be more interested in non-institutionalised religion , and is drawn towards the childlike state of innocence and the idea of a life away from society . |