Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangers of excessive alcohol are perhaps more obvious and the real problem here is that the effect is cumulative rather than merely temporary . |
| 2 | Indeed , this result is an irresistible inference from the acceptance of the tort of intimidation : if it is a tort by A against C to threaten a wrong to B if B continues to deal with C it is hard to see why it should not be equally tortious to inflict harm on C by committing that wrong rather than merely threatening it . |
| 3 | His position develops into scepticism proper ( i.e. the view that knowledge is impossible rather than merely rarer than one thinks ) when the standards are set so high that they can not be fulfilled . |
| 4 | And that judgement of mine is as much universalizable , as binding on my future judgements about relevantly similar cases , as if the example had been real rather than merely imaginary . |
| 5 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 6 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 7 | Since differences of less than 1% can be shown to be statistically significant when working with large sample numbers , Woodley chose to comment on differences and trends that appear to meaningful rather than merely statistically significant . |
| 8 | The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role . |
| 9 | Furthermore by taking an ideological rather than merely a dispositive approach he is able to lay down principles for the reconstruction of societas in the modern age . |
| 10 | The latter had developed the view that ‘ social norms are constitutive rather than merely regulative of human nature before he was influenced by psychoanalytic theory ’ . |