Example sentences of "more 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Unfortunately it gives rise to distortions of political representation too notorious to require here more than passing reference . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The difference in response rates achieved is of more than passing interest . |
| 12 | 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 . |