Example sentences of "than 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 .

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