Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] than merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if such a procedure were adopted by the House it would be better to have it subject to agreement between the usual channels than merely on the diktat of the Government . |
| 2 | He now realised that he needed to redefine his criteria for book selection to include material of broader interest than merely that which would fit in with his teaching : You buy your library books with a different set of criteria than the sort you use when you are trying to choose a textbook , and I had to restrain myself and think : " Well , I would n't like this , but maybe there is somebody who would . |
| 3 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 4 | ‘ Last night you appeared to have no qualms about my doing far more intimate things than merely touching your arm . ’ |
| 5 | Another way to get the flavour of Japan , but requiring a little more courage than merely eating in a local café , is to stay in a Japanese-style hotel . |
| 6 | But the sociologist of religion is interested in far more complicated questions than merely who would call themselves Methodist , Muslim or Mormon — or the proportion of each faith that attends a place of worship each day or week or month , or commits suicide in a particular year . |
| 7 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 8 | These provide firms with product and service differentiation that allow them to compete on other bases than merely those of costs and prices . |
| 9 | Yet the primate hand , particularly in the case of man , who has retained ( or , more accurately , re-acquired ) a generalized , unspecialized hand , can be put to many other uses than merely grasping branches . |
| 10 | It was an achievement of greater significance than merely explaining some puzzling data . |
| 11 | Social attitudes demanded that the politician who aspired to a county interest should handle his constituents with greater care than merely bargaining for votes . |