Example sentences of "than passing " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the diversion of a county programme in the North and West , where the competition still has more than passing meaning . |
| 2 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 3 | There is more than passing irony in the very thought of a celibate Rangers . |
| 4 | The matter is of more than passing scientific interest . |
| 5 | For a start , one of Bob 's favourite English bands is Swervedriver , whose early songs boasted a more than passing Dü influence . |
| 6 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 7 | Some clinicians make the mistake of giving stickers for staying clean but this can easily cause additional problems of the child 's becoming constipated to stay clean rather than passing motions in the correct place . |
| 8 | A trainee psychologist , played by Lambert 's wife , Diane Lane , is drafted in to help track down the real killer and — you guessed it — takes a more than passing professional interest in Sanderson . |
| 9 | Greek Intelligence must have been taking a more than passing interest in the activities of our friend Andropulos over a long period , years I would think . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it gives rise to distortions of political representation too notorious to require here more than passing reference . |
| 11 | Traditional typesetter like Linotype , Compugraphic and Monotype have moved to accommodate output from the low-cost software , generally by accepting PostScript instructions as an input , while the professional packages from companies such as Magna , GB Techniques among others now pay more than passing attention to facilities like soft preview and laser proofing . |
| 12 | The difference in response rates achieved is of more than passing interest . |
| 13 | His apparent interest could not possibly have been more than passing curiosity . |
| 14 | It also made more than passing obeisance to the logic of the experiment which , for many and wrongly , was taken as the sine qua non of the scientific method . |
| 15 | They were in the middle of the case , working in a building where bloodstained clothing had been found , and where two people whom the police had questioned about a missing boy had more than passing contact , yet they knew less than anyone . |