potential interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpotentialandinterest
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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈten.ʃəl/us/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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interest
noun
uk/ˈɪn.trəst/us/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofpotentialandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Among hospitals without ethics committees, 72.9% indicatedpotentialinterestin a project that would provide technical assistance and training in the area of bioethics.
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Information from the dorsal stream alerts the organism to the fact that something ofpotentialinterestor importance is out there.
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The fact that the models based on a cognitive unconscious work might seem to negate thepotentialinterestof an alternative model.
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Less than ten years ago any monograph on the subject would have been ofpotentialinterestto every practitioner.
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All environmental and management variables (table 1) were considered independently and the quadratic relationships of all continuous variables and interactions ofpotentialinterestwere tested.
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These thermolysis products of alanine are ofpotentialinterestas prebiotic molecules.
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All three chapters are based on very large and detailed datasets and are still of considerablepotentialinterestto explorationists.
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This essay discusses the methods and achievements of historical and comparative linguistics and introduces some new possibilities ofpotentialinterestto historians.
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Changes in rule confidence between maintenance operations are ofpotentialinterestin tracking which problems persist and which vanish after maintenance.
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It was also hoped that results could then be clearly identified and ofpotentialinterestin other contexts.
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The articles were selected weekly and were based upon their relevance andpotentialinterestto college students 19 to 20 years of age.
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Early losses are another confounder ofpotentialinterest, which is almost impossible to consider in epidemiological studies.
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It is ofpotentialinterestthat this type of alignment can be seen to be useful in other communicative contexts besides dialogue.
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A special way of using selective actions is to present prototypical objects ofpotentialinterestto the user and then let the user select from these objects.
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Increased bicycle sales over recent years show that there ispotentialinterestin greater use of the bicycle.
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That has nudged me to declare apotentialinterest: my eldest daughter expects to go to university next year.
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Obviously, he recognises that there is widepotentialinterestin commercial radio among the people of this country.
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Perhaps this may be the moment to declare at least apotentialinterest.
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Secondly, the consortium calls for a strategic impact assessment—not just an environmental assessment— focusing on areas of existing andpotentialinterestfor oil and gas exploration.
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