Example sentences of "to be interested " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 2 | What you doing it for ? 'Cos let me tell you , the only people who are going to be interested in your bloody research are the authorities . |
| 3 | Unless you can promote yourself as a bit-part player in some concocted yarn involving Madonna , outlandish sexual indiscretions , wilful substance abuse or , better still , all three , they are n't going to be interested . |
| 4 | If a band can work that little bit harder to be more original , someone somewhere should start to be interested in their music . |
| 5 | But such a future , Eliot wrote , was not one in which he or his readers ought to be interested . |
| 6 | Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems . |
| 7 | I took it to a couple of shops who just were n't interested and then to Macaris who seemed to be interested in buying it but who were being a bit funny about it to me . |
| 8 | He wanted her to be interested . |
| 9 | I was supposed to be interested because the chap had sometimes been here doing electrical repairs . |
| 10 | ‘ You did not speak about the Royal Academy if you pretended to be interested in modern art , ’ said one young critic . |
| 11 | They want to be interested and happy . |
| 12 | And on the other end of the line , the spineless , boneless baby-kissers : all eagerly participating in the charade , briefly pretending to be interested in these individuals , in order to make importuning for votes look like philanthropy and vacant sayings appear new minted . |
| 13 | Personally , I have always thought it a great mistake to expect young people to be interested in politics . |
| 14 | Others understood to be interested are Time Warner , the world 's largest media company , TV-am and Thames , two of the losing ITV franchisees , CLT , owners of Radio Luxembourg , and Five TV — a consortium led by Mr Moses Znaimer , a Canadian television operator . |
| 15 | The typical visitor ( paying an adult admission charge of £23 ) is probably less likely to be interested in the architecture of the pavilions than in their contents . |
| 16 | One class I proposed to visit , but was warned off as only one member was likely to be interested in a workers movement , all the others were retired from professions and it was thought I ( a gardener ) might offend them … |
| 17 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 18 | The major theorists on acting , on the other hand , such as Diderot ( 1957 ) , Stanislavsky ( 1937 ) , Brecht ( 1973 ) , Craig ( 1962 ) , Artaud ( 1970 ) and Brook ( 1968 ) tend to be interested in a particular theatrical style while writers on theatre such as Weissman ( 1965 ) and Barish ( 1966 ) choose to write about acting from a psychoanalytical point of view . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's the only thing anybody seems to be interested in . |
| 20 | Irina seemed to be interested in the question and turned a serious face toward Alison . |
| 21 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 22 | Find out which reporters on the local newspaper and radio are most likely to be interested . |
| 23 | Students of cancer had more reason to be interested in chromatin and its role in cell division , but chemical approaches to cancer were predominantly concerned with molecules which could be identified at the time , i.e. with molecular weights under 1000 . |
| 24 | Make an effort to be interested in them — have they read any others by the same author , have they seen the play/film/TV series of the book ? |
| 25 | With a specialised market it 's quite appropriate to approach any publisher you think is likely to be interested ( your training should have taught you which publishers specialise in your field ) with a synopsis and sample chapter . |
| 26 | The superiority of primary over secondary school education lies mainly in the fact that most children of primary school age are open to teaching , and ready to be interested . |
| 27 | She glanced from her regular customers to the two new ones who seemed to be interested in the proceedings , and she said , ‘ Well , now , she wo n't get much chocolate toffee for a ha'penny . |
| 28 | To remember something , you have to be interested in it . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought , is Britain really going to be interested in two elderly people in a residential home ? |
| 30 | For a while they are ‘ egocentric ’ — so self-centred that they seem to be interested only in themselves and their own point of view . |