Example sentences of "more than a cursory [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 2 | Narratorial frustration is evident in the disjointed structure of the novel which focuses briefly on a number of subcultures of professional London without bothering to link them in more than a cursory manner . |
| 3 | But when , as his friend and director Mike Nichols asserts , an actor has inscribed upon popular history a character who has influenced the modern male personality , as did Henry Fonda , James Cagney , Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , his personal idiosyncrasies are worth more than a cursory glance . |
| 4 | Characters casting more than a cursory glance at the extremely distressing scenes here must make a WP test to avoid gaining an Insanity Point . |
| 5 | People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance . |
| 6 | A busy place at which most tourists cast no more than a cursory glance and pass on . |
| 7 | Space does not allow more than a cursory examination of the evidence , but one can illustrate its value , and the problems of using it , by looking at the question of how the balance of England 's exports changed . |