Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Got anything more definite than mere feeling ? ’ |
2 | We are certainly dealing with matters much more serious than mere inconvenience . |
3 | Taking ideas and improving them is much more valuable than mere imitation . |
4 | Her deliberate breach of protocol at No. 10 might be construed partly as a late revenge for those teenage tortures , though her anger , now transmuted into political sloganising , runs deeper than mere petulance . |
5 | Here theorists such as Austin , Hart , Kelsen , Unger , Holmes and even Aquinas , as interpreted by Finnis , speak with one voice in proclaiming that the relationship between rule and decision is more complex than mere deduction . |
6 | We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively . |
7 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
8 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
9 | Databases are being taught how the world works , and thus becoming more than mere filing cabinets |
10 | There , musicianship and musical intelligence count for more than mere voice . |
11 | In essence , the complication is that retailers provide ‘ much more than mere warehousing ’ ( Marvel and McCafferty , 1984 , p. 348 ) . |
12 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
13 | It is more than mere style , something beyond the old ‘ something must be done ’ concern . |
14 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
15 | Perhaps it was the nagging awareness that he too had hoped to gain more than mere gratification from their acquaintance . |
16 | Comics cram a great deal of information into a brief space , which makes them a potent force for more than mere storytelling . |
17 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
18 | Something more than mere loneliness , mere senile fantasies and quirks , burnt in his striking eyes , in that abrupt , probing then dropping conversation , in those sudden oblique looks at nothing . |
19 | There may be more than mere nostalgia in all this . |
20 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
21 | Their response is more than mere cynicism , however , as they offer excellent concrete proposals for an overhaul , not just of US , but of all major aid and development agencies ' programs . |
22 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
23 | In the Celtic sense , Sovereignty means more than mere exercise of power . |
24 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
25 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
26 | The section 6(2) and section 61(1) remedies are more than mere machinery . |
27 | The common property , if it is more than mere cash in hand or at the bank , will be vested in trustees who must deal with it in accordance with the rules or with any trust expressly declared , and it can be made liable for obligations incurred by , or on behalf of , the society . |
28 | The reply , however , consists in more than mere reiteration or insistence . |
29 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
30 | He knew that Sharpe 's insults were more than mere anger , but a deliberate provocation to a duel . |