adjective
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a good/excellent/interesting article
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There was an interesting article on Russia in the paper today.
an interesting comparison
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The exhibition provides an interesting comparison of the artists’ works.
an interesting contrast
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the interesting contrast between his early and later paintings
an interesting fact
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The research revealed some interesting facts about the behaviour of cats.
an interesting point
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He has made an interesting point.
an interesting proposition
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A further study focussing on older people is an interesting proposition.
an interesting/fascinating subject
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Fame is a fascinating subject.
find sth/sb easy/useful/interesting etc
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She found the work very dull.
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Lots of women I know find him attractive.
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I found them quite easy to use.
interesting
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The idea sounded interesting , but I didn’t think it would work.
much the best/most interesting etc British English
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It’s much the best way to do it.
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■ ADVERB
also
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The fall of Wulfgeat in 1006 is also interesting from another angle.
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Section 5.4 is also interesting because the problem it raises cuts across the boundaries of linguistically defined levels of analysis.
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The adjacent campanile is also interesting and is a combination of Norman and Byzantine work.
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The inclusion of discussion is also interesting and contrasts with traditional approaches which demanded silence in arithmetic lessons.
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It is also interesting to note that often they are severely constrained.
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The case is also interesting from the point of view of the reason shown for the dismissal.
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It is also interesting , absorbing and new.
how
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Oscars are not boring How interesting these Oscars are proving to be.
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Say how interesting I find the lectures, how romantic the surroundings.
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I have often thought how interesting and useful it would be to have a globe in the house.
less
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Moreover, housework was a highly privatised activity which was not as well regarded and was much less interesting than paid employment.
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The other two churches are less interesting due to alterations and restorations in later periods.
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We went on airways, which was less interesting in terms of things to see but got us safety to Biarritz.
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He seems to have largely ceased to make these large sketches by 1814 although smaller and less interesting ones exist until 1820.
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All the same, despite his intelligence and charm, Diderot is perhaps less interesting in himself than as a symptom and influence.
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There is another, apparently much more fundamental although philosophically less interesting , criticism of Libet's work.
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The general opinion is that Real are tighter in defence, but less interesting and inventive.
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The lunch-time conversation tended to be less interesting than that of Rose and Victorine in the kitchen.
more
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These lent brilliance to the footwork which became more intricate and thus more interesting .
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This makes it a more interesting place to live.
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Female speaker With studying the film it was a lot more interesting than just reading the book.
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It just makes it more interesting than a terrible pop song with a straight sequenced beat like a Kylie Minogue record.
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So much more interesting than Philpott's drab wall panels at the United Nations headquarters.
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But recently my colleagues and I have developed another theory which I think has more interesting implications.
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Delta is good for the South and South-west and has a more interesting selection of commuter airlines.
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Death was more interesting to him.
most
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Branches and subsidiaries One of the most interesting areas for future harmonisation relates to groups of companies, and branches of companies.
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Overall, the most interesting examples of Stannard's treatment come out of his own field of physics.
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I had the pleasure of sitting next to Prince Abdullah at luncheon, whom I found a most interesting young man.
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Perhaps the most interesting point which arises from McCullough's article is that it needed to be said.
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One of the most interesting extra-mural buildings was uncovered in the Birch Abbey excavations.
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If these regulatory bodies succeed, it will be one of the most interesting developments of the nineties.
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And that, I am afraid, is just about the most interesting thing you can say about it.
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The most interesting result is that it gives quicker search times for a long word list over the 26-way methods.
particularly
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What is particularly interesting from the historical viewpoint is the manner in which refinement of the statistical data has altered the record.
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One particularly interesting aspect of the book is the continuous discussion on the use of violence.
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A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds.
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The rise is particularly interesting because it confounded expectations.
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Two features of this succession on urban wasteland are particularly interesting .
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The truth is that her life before marriage was not particularly interesting .
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A particularly interesting finding was that of a benign tubulovillous polyp that contained both a mutant K-ras and a p53 allele.
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Some of the 1-cyclopropyl-quinolone-carboxylic acid derivatives exhibited particularly interesting microbiological properties.
really
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It is great fun experimenting with these patterns and producing some really interesting samples.
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Esmonde was a really interesting guy - I've said that even when sober.
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Chris Parker's bound to ask lots of questions about them - because they're really interesting .
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Apparently they are still quite frequent in Britain, but surely the really interesting question is why?
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I remember having some really interesting discussions with him when we'd go and see a band somewhere.
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To know the answer to that would have been really interesting .
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Now we reach the really interesting question: who are Zande witches?
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The really interesting question is what will take its place in this vital prime time slot.
so
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What is so interesting here is the cadaveric spasm.
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That is why I find Bourdieu's researches so interesting .
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But it is the sad worldliness of the backstage banter which makes this play so interesting .
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It would not do to forget something so interesting .
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Why is Brigitte Bardot so interesting ?
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I suggest leaving the parents to try to raise them, as it is so interesting to watch.
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Thank you for making my year so interesting and enjoyable.
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So what is the world of industry really like, and why do I find it so interesting ?
very
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There is no doubt that the Swanage Railway has another very interesting locomotive.
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It is a reluctance that already had very interesting echoes for the Middle East, even before the current crisis broke out.
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She offers a persuasive and very interesting hypothesis, as yet unsubstantiated, to which classroom research could usefully be directed.
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That said, future releases promise to be very interesting .
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Naisbitt has transferred this technique from intelligence operations to commercial and social applications, with some very interesting results.
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Many of the old houses have been enlarged or improved, but historically are very interesting .
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I think it's very interesting since half the century has been concerned with this question of objects.
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The afternoon will be devoted to the business meeting which is always very interesting .
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aspect
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One particularly interesting aspect of the book is the continuous discussion on the use of violence.
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The most interesting aspect of the Labour campaign was, however, its glossy, middle-class niceness.
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This brings me to perhaps the most important and interesting aspect of the case.
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Yet for a work in a public square this is an interesting aspect of art criticism.
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One of the more interesting aspects of the Livingston and Falkirk areas is the drift deposits.
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In the first set of interviews there is another interesting aspect of references to work.
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Another interesting aspect that has been almost entirely neglected concerns horizontal influences in near and distant gubernii.
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Far and away the most interesting aspect of this guitar is the neck block and heel design.
case
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A further illustration of the application of these principles is afforded by the interesting case of Giles v. Walker.
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As another illustration there is the interesting case of a lady of seventy.
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Since there is an interesting case for each, it certainly seems that there may be a compelling case for combining them.
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For instance, a liaison group teacher reported an interesting case of lack of conservation of door width.
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One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon.
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Spycatcher is a very interesting case , in this respect.
development
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While conceptually this is an interesting development such measures would be difficult to operationalize.
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An interesting development is the direct synthesis of acetic anhydride, used to make cellulose acetate for photographic film base.
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In the early seventies an interesting development on our operational side was the emergence of illegal immigrant running by sea.
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An even more interesting development is the astonishing advance made by Guscott's kicking.
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In this respect, an interesting development has been the growth of Community Schools/Colleges.
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If these regulatory bodies succeed, it will be one of the most interesting developments of the nineties.
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Towards the end of the 1980s attention was being focussed on some interesting developments in wagon design.
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One of the most interesting development initiatives is the community cooperatives.
example
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One other interesting example of feeding technology is the use of bait to catch prey.
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The career of George Pearson provides an interesting example of the commercial and creative impulses fighting against each other in one person.
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Calico printing provides an interesting example .
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Let me give a trivial but I hope interesting example from my own experience.
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Overall, the most interesting examples of Stannard's treatment come out of his own field of physics.
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The portrait is an endlessly interesting example , a theme redolent with social connotations and artistic references.
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With this cautionary illustration behind us we can now proceed to a more complex and interesting example .
fact
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Even if you don't know many answers yourself it will be an opportunity to learn some interesting facts about railways.
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The interesting fact to note is that dinosaurs soon benefited from bipedality in the same way humans later did - better vision.
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Incidentally, an interesting fact emerged from Clubcall.
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The research has already revealed some interesting facts about Rembrandt which have hitherto been overlooked.
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All indexed, described, places of origin, dates, histories, interesting facts ....
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The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged.
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It is an interesting fact that countries can be divided by their ability to adapt to other cultures.
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The results, obtained at considerable cost, were full of interesting facts but they were not always very conclusive.
feature
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A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds.
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The work unearthed several interesting features .
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These included some engineering schemes such as bridges and tunnels, but the most interesting feature was undoubtedly the hierarchy of networks.
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An interesting feature of the rural economy is the way in which these sectoral employment changes are interlinked.
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Three interesting features inside are the box pews, the semi-circular altar rail, and the stone lectern dating from Norman times.
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An interesting feature of the transition process is vortex pairing, seen in Fig. 18.10.
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An interesting feature of the church is the array of gilded heads high up on the walls of the nave.
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Alternatively- a messy jumble of pipes could actually be picked out to look like an interesting feature in its own right.
people
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I met some very interesting people , including Fred Trueman.
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There have been many interesting people amongst the schoolmasters, vicars, landowners and dignitaries over the years.
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The travelling, the meeting of interesting people .
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This part is pristine, untouched with vast forests, mountains and interesting people including original gypsies.
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But the interesting people she meets more than makes up for the bad ones.
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Space doesn't allow for other interesting people , except for Keiran Oley.
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The students are very pleasant and interesting people , quite well-informed and keen.
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I heard about the interesting people who had visited Leverson Manor since the discovery of the Roman remains.
point
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Now here is the interesting point .
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One interesting point is that signals for both directions pass through both microphones and both earpieces.
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But it's an interesting point of principal.
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Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war.
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Mr. Jack My hon. Friend raises an interesting point .
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Perhaps the most interesting point which arises from McCullough's article is that it needed to be said.
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The tie-up could send a chill through Bill Gates since it gives Novell an interesting point of entry to the enterprise.
question
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This is an interesting question and there is probably more to it than meets the eye.
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This is an interesting question in itself, quite apart from how to achieve it.
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Three interesting questions arise: why do Blacks have higher arrest rates in the lighter areas than in the darker areas?
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Quite why females should be so impressed by plumes, iridescent colours and whirling displays is an interesting question .
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Perhaps the most interesting questions relate to subject demand in public libraries, linked to the activity of stock revision.
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If you record enough of them, from enough horses on enough occasions, you can start to ask interesting questions .
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Well, that raises an interesting question .
reading
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In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading .
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The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading .
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There was further very interesting reading in the U.S. golfing magazine.
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A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading .
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But here it is, all five foolscap pages, and it makes quite interesting reading .
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This, unlike the first one, makes interesting reading , and is referred to continually.
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His observations may make interesting reading .
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The guidance, when it appears, should make interesting reading .
thing
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The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all.
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Sister Mary had told me that I was going to learn wonderful and important and interesting things in the first grade.
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Their works have disappeared as a result, and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion.
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The interesting thing about all these observations is that they went unnoticed and unconnected for so long.
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Perhaps the most interesting thing about him was not the conclusion he reached, but the way he reached it.
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They do interesting things with guitars and they don't really need to pay homage to anyone else.
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There were lots of interesting things lying around for them to eat and together they munched their way through a large book.
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However, if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period, you would discover two interesting things .
things
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This situation is changing, though, and some interesting things are now being done with pumice deposits.
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Sister Mary had told me that I was going to learn wonderful and important and interesting things in the first grade.
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Here all the instruments can be expected to show plenty of agility, and should have interesting things to do.
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Their works have disappeared as a result, and there are many more interesting things that have been consigned to oblivion.
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They do interesting things with guitars and they don't really need to pay homage to anyone else.
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There were lots of interesting things lying around for them to eat and together they munched their way through a large book.
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However, if it were possible to keep careful watch over a longer period, you would discover two interesting things .
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One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people, too.
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be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc
make (for) interesting/fascinating/compelling etc reading
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A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading .
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He also has a collection of Rentokil news letters going back to his early days which made for fascinating reading after dinner.
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His observations may make interesting reading .
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In the context of the £33 million earmarked for 20 City Technology Colleges, that figure makes interesting reading .
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Its Report was published in 1867 and makes fascinating reading .
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The guidance, when it appears, should make interesting reading .
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The report I commissioned on you makes for interesting reading .
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This, unlike the first one, makes interesting reading , and is referred to continually.
not half as/so good/interesting etc (as sb/sth)
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an interesting man
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At the age of 80 she still leads a very busy and interesting life.
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I find it interesting that no one has yet mentioned the President's appalling record on the economy.
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I found the book quite interesting even though it's not the sort of thing I'd normally read.
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I got an interesting letter in the mail today.
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It is interesting that the present recession is much deeper in the south than in the north.
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It would be interesting to know how much he earns.
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Lawyers get to represent lots of clients in their careers, but few as interesting as a president.
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Michael's new job sounds really interesting .
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She found him interesting , attractive even.
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The exhibition includes some interesting old musical instruments.
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The most interesting thing about dinosaurs is the fact that they all died out so suddenly.
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The party was full of artists, actors, and other interesting people.
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The Renaissance must have been a very interesting time to have been alive.
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There's a course in English business law at King's College that looks interesting .
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Today's been really interesting , I enjoyed it very much.
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We saw an interesting film about African wildlife.
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What makes San Francisco so interesting is its architecture, which is completely different from that of other American cities.