Example sentences of "[adv] a passing [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a passing girl suddenly swerved towards him and threw her arms round his waist . |
| 2 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 3 | " And everywhere he is in chains ! " cried the Collector urgently in his delirium , causing both young ladies to turn anxiously towards his bed but it was nothing , merely a passing fancy in his overheated brain . |
| 4 | Admittedly , when young , one does tend to be annoyed by remarks such as , ‘ My grandad 's older than your dad ’ , and become increasingly frustrated by mum 's , ‘ When I was young a shilling would buy ’ lectures , but this is merely a passing phase . |
| 5 | He never found work , made no male friends and had only a passing acquaintance with people in a local pub , including the 20-year-old barmaid . |
| 6 | Frightened , but believing this was only a passing sense of panic , Monika ran to the church hoping she could calm him . |
| 7 | The story may , when it is ‘ out ’ , bear only a passing resemblance to the writer 's own life ( although Marquez , at least , has admitted that his novel is firmly grounded in memories of his own childhood ) because of the transforming power of the daydream . |
| 8 | Finally , there are those rugs featuring highly decorative gul-like forms ( bearing only a passing resemblance to authentic tribal motifs ) which are almost exclusively confined to the Pakistani Mori Bokhara range ( pl 27 ) . |
| 9 | Although the G-7 final communiqué made only a passing reference to " developments in the Soviet Union " , it was understood that a decision to shelve the issue of Soviet participation in the IMF and World Bank [ see p. 37730 ] had been prompted by widespread condemnation of recent Soviet attacks on nationalists in Latvia and Lithuania [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 10 | ‘ Tieless in Soho ’ is only a passing fad — not the tie . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's only a passing shower , ’ she declared . |
| 12 | Reaction conditions are outlined at the foot of each flow scheme , but technology receives only a passing mention , with little discussion of modern peptide synthesisers on which so much of contemporary synthesis relies . |
| 13 | And so it might , provided it was only a passing mention and that it contributed properly to the pattern of the book . |
| 14 | The reference to the assassination of Dr King is perfunctory , with only a passing mention of his funeral and a few shouts about his death . |
| 15 | ‘ It is only a passing melancholy , ’ he told himself . |
| 16 | This sometimes happens to men in middle age , and it is usually only a passing phase . |
| 17 | But now things are on the slide , and despite grunts that the City 's slump is only a passing phase , warnings of London 's undoing are arising . |
| 18 | Caroline 's comment : Feeding problems are extremely common in young children and being fussy about food is usually only a passing phase . |
| 19 | ‘ He knows of your feelings towards me , and I am only a passing stranger . |
| 20 | Tyler 's love was only a passing thing , or he would be here now , loving her , helping to raise their son , and making her lonely life complete . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps that is only a passing feeling … ’ |
| 22 | Arlington Mill is well worth exploring , even for those with only a passing interest in milling history , its other exhibits and displays both interesting and informative . |
| 23 | The backlash is awaited with interest by everyone , even those with only a passing interest in the music scene . |
| 24 | The ATP Tour , Year Two : 1991 , is a book for the enthusiast although it is also a book that you would have no hesitation in showing off to your friends , even those with only a passing interest in the game . |
| 25 | It must never be forgotten that the great majority of the English people had only a passing interest in the niceties of academic theology , and that outside the bishops ' palaces and the two universities such issues remained relatively unimportant . |
| 26 | " Pollution of the Gulf is no longer a passing phase but has become a persistent and permanent feature of the region 's life " , he declared in a research paper presented to a GCC conference in Dubai . |
| 27 | The waiter hovered , noting his client 's discomfort , but Davide shook his head , ‘ Just a passing weakness . |
| 28 | Gorbachev 's acceptance speech at the March 1985 Central Committee meeting contained just a passing reference to the ‘ steadfast strengthening of the friendship of the peoples of our great multinational power ’ ; an address on the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II referred similarly to the ‘ blossoming of nations and nationalities ’ in the USSR which was ‘ organically connected with their all-round convergence ’ . |
| 29 | He is not just a passing atom of an overwhelming universe , but is of external significance . |
| 30 | I would like green eyes if I could have them but it 's just a passing thought , not a real obsession . |