Example sentences of "[subord] passing [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately it gives rise to distortions of political representation too notorious to require here more than passing reference . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The difference in response rates achieved is of more than passing interest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is also the diversion of a county programme in the North and West , where the competition still has more than passing meaning . |
| 9 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 10 | His apparent interest could not possibly have been more than passing curiosity . |
| 11 | There is more than passing irony in the very thought of a celibate Rangers . |
| 12 | After passing church turn left ( Dams Lane ) Viking Way ( VW waymark ) , for path between fences . |
| 13 | Further along , after passing roadside waterfalls , the high ground on the left takes impressive shape as the western peaks of the Fannich range come into view . |
| 14 | Before long they opened a grocery-cum-delicatessen in a good position as far as passing trade was concerned . |
| 15 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
| 16 | A judge should be obliged when passing sentence to state what the sentence would have been but for the plea of guilty . |
| 17 | He demanded changes to the law so repeat offences could be taken into account when passing sentence . |
| 18 | Exit : Use the left-turn indicator when passing exit ( b ) before the one you want to take ( c ) . |
| 19 | Exit : Use the left-turn indicator when passing exit ( c ) before the one you want to take ( d ) . |
| 20 | Exit : Check mirrors , change to left-turn indicator when passing exit ( d ) before the one you want to take ( e ) . |
| 21 | Exit : Check mirrors , change to left-turn indicator when passing exit ( e ) before the one you want to take ( f ) . |
| 22 | Children who were preoccupied with the natural motions of their own bodies or who were difficult to toilet train were abused children ; children who laughed when passing wind , or indulged in aggressive play were displaying the classic signs of abuse ; destroying toys , harming animals , and being pre-occupied with death , were all stated to be symptoms of satanic ritual abuse . |
| 23 | If Candida gets into a woman 's urinary tract or bladder it can produce a form of cystitis — characterized by a burning sensation when passing urine . |
| 24 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |