Example sentences of "it be [prep] interest [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It is of interest to see whether and where the two share common ideas .
2 If the popular conception of ‘ class ’ does not involve any rigorous or well-elaborated notion of class determination , it is of interest to examine whether people 's self-assignation correlates strongly with certain ‘ objective ’ features of their economic and social location .
3 Polymer samples are normally polydisperse and it is of interest to examine the type of average molecular weight that might be expected from a measurement of *lsqb ; η ] .
4 As many of these are readily obtained by simple screening techniques applied to natural sedimentary deposits it is of interest to record the prescribed limitations of the aggregate gradings .
5 It is of interest to compare the positions of Brumfit and Krashen in this collection , positions which might be said to typify to some degree the attitudes to applied linguistics and language teaching on each side of the Atlantic .
6 It is of interest to compare Pausanias 's account of Polygnotos 's Troy at Delphi with two earlier vase pictures of the Sack .
7 It is of interest to refer in this context to Beckett 's ( undated ) empirical work on the adoption practices of Torres Strait Islanders where adoption has traditionally been open .
8 It is of interest to note that the first item of non-financial business appearing in the records concerned the location of a footpath !
9 It is of interest to note that half the current members of the Association of Social Anthropologists express an interest in complex societies .
10 It is of interest to note that both venues were designated as public meeting places following outbreaks of public disorder and public clashes with the police when people were seeking to demonstrate and protest publicly in central London during the nineteenth century .
11 It is of interest to note that even Maughan and Rutter report one non-selective school with a low ability intake whose pupils ' achievement is broadly comparable with the grammar school averages .
12 Finally , it is of interest to note that expression of the wnt-1 proto-oncogene can reproduce all the effects of Li + , including the duplication of the dorsal axis , the increase in gap junctional communication between ventral cells , and the restoration of an axis when wnt-1 was expressed on one side of an ultraviolet-irradiated embryo .
13 It is of interest to note that in seeking to systematize referral procedures Owen has begun to undermine the principle of flexibility which was one of the advantages such provision was thought to have over special schools .
14 In this context it is of interest to note that male staff in the city 's special units often have sporting interests and a significant number are former PE teachers .
15 It is of interest to observe that , for stationary axisymmetric space-times , the main field equations can be written in the form of Ernst 's equation ( 11.8 ) , whose solution is considered as a complex potential for the metric functions X and that are obtained from ( 12.36 ) and ( 12.34 ) .
16 It is of interest to consider the issue of women in comparison with other issues in relation to which such a methodology has been applied .
17 Clearly it is of interest to know whether the memories of witnesses to crimes are likely to be altered by the often stressful nature of being a witness to or a victim of a crime .
18 Because oxidants damage DNA and are also mutagenic it was of interest to determine whether DNA damage might be causing induction of the CL100 gene .
19 Since we had found that the 140k DNA binding domain recognizes sites bearing similarity to the Vmw175 consensus binding sequence , and moreover , specifically recognizes this IE-3 promoter binding site , it was of interest to determine whether VT2 binding would induce a similar conformational change on the DNA at its binding sites in the vicinities of both proposed gene 62 mRNA start sites .
20 No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue .
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