Example sentences of "been [adj] interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In particular , there has been great interest in the practical commercial use of artificial intelligence , with many companies and even governments becoming involved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | According to the organisers there has already been considerable interest from a number of European and American dealers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ There has been considerable interest in our emergency procedures from major oil companies and several other industrial organisations , ’ said Emergency Planning Engineer Bill Burgoyne . |
| 8 | There has been considerable interest in social psychology to examine the processes involved in social thinking . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised . |
| 16 | In recent years there has been increasing interest in the evaluation of performance in the public sector of the economy . |
| 17 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |
| 18 | Although there has been intermittent interest in this area since that time , it is only more recently that there have been suitable techniques for more effective study . |
| 19 | There 's also been keen interest from Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | Touche Ross , the receivers for Scarborough 's troubled Royal Hotel , say there has been keen interest from potential buyers and negotiations should start soon . |
| 21 | There has been recent interest in a phenomenon variously known as ‘ highway hypnosis ’ ( Brown , 1991 ; Wertheim , 1991 ; Williams , 1963 ) , DWA — ‘ driving without awareness ’ ( Horne , 1992 ) and DWAM — ‘ driving without attention mode ’ ( Kerr , 1991 ) . |
| 22 | There has been intense interest in the British life insurance sector by Australian , New Zealand and Continental interests for some time . |