Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] more than [art] passing " in BNC.

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1 Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool .
2 The Abbots united for the inevitable photograph bear more than a passing resemblance to a sports team .
3 Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U-boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model .
4 The voice of Bess of Hardwick can be heard ordering her household in Derby shire at the end of the sixteenth century , but less well-known women also make their appearance , including Mary-Ann , the dairymaid at Uppark in Sussex who captured the heart of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh , and Carolyn Workman , whose transfer from her father 's parsonage in Norfolk to the grandeur of The Vyne in Hampshire bears more than a passing resemblance to Fanny Price 's story in Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park .
5 As he shaved his reflection seemed to be the face of a low criminal — or like one of Bodo 's associates — and when he went into the sitting-room his wife bore more than a passing resemblance to an exceptionally severe judge about to condemn that criminal to hard labour for life .
6 Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that .
7 Inland , the Annamite Cordillera thrust its purple peaks towards the afternoon sky , but neither Joseph Sherman nor his mother gave more than a passing glance to the spectacular mountain and ocean scenery outside the car .
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