Example sentences of "more than [art] passing interest " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were also rumours that newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell was showing more than a passing interest in Storehouse . |
| 2 | This was the brainchild of Martin and Hermon Bond , two farmers , who had more than a passing interest in golf . |
| 3 | The ferreting season has just ended and those people with no more than a passing interest , perhaps a failed interest , will then be keen to dispose of their stock rather than feed and maintain them to the start of another season . |
| 4 | The likes of Dr James Halden would n't take more than a passing interest in a common domestic servant . |
| 5 | Taking more than a passing interest in the glam rock movement of the '70s , Suede 's debut — with it 's thick pounding drum intro , drawled Bowie-like vocals and brash bursts of chugging guitar — was never likely to pass unnoticed . |
| 6 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 7 | If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest . |
| 8 | After all , Levi admits to more than a passing interest in things financial , shall we say . |
| 9 | One or two events which will be of more than a passing interest to Lothian Highways ' staff have occurred since the first edition of NETWORK was published . |
| 10 | I forget who had mentioned to me that Geoff was rumoured to be taking more than a passing interest in her . |
| 11 | Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . |
| 12 | Ruth did n't want to get drawn into all that again and besides , his tone had n't indicated anything more than a passing interest . |
| 13 | I will be following their progress with a little more than a passing interest . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Falkirk will take more than a passing interest in two Premier Division matches tonight , and hoping that the Old Firm do them a favour by beating fellow strugglers Dundee and Motherwell . |