Example sentences of "[adj] [art] mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detinue lay where a man was in possession of another 's goods and refused to give them up but could it be said that such a mere refusal was a positive act ? |
| 2 | The three special ambassadors sent to James II in 1685 , for example , to congratulate him on his coronation and ask for English help against the Turks , unsuccessfully demanded privileges which were regarded as quite unjustified — to be " conducted " at their audience with the king by a duke rather than as usual a mere earl and for their coaches to be allowed to enter the courtyard of the royal palace . |
| 3 | Quarries and coal-pits were numerous in certain localities , salt-works and glassworks were flourishing , the cloth industry was growing ; but so far as the visible signs upon the face of the country were concerned it was all a mere scratching on the surface . |
| 4 | ‘ Science has finally confirmed what many a mere male has long suspected — that the troubles of the world are women 's fault , and if there were fewer of them , things would get on a whole lot better . |
| 5 | ‘ … in 1940–1 a mere accident , and one which might easily have occurred , could … have reversed the outcome of the war and transformed the subsequent shape of the world ’ . |
| 6 | Impatience with the slowness of parliamentary and bureaucratic procedures , and a growing awareness that in the Spain of the 1930s the mere passage of social legislation did not guarantee its swift and successful implementation , were pushing leftwards not only the FNTT and other elements within the UGT , but also the Young Socialists , elements within the Socialist Party apparatus , and not least Largo Caballero himself . |
| 7 | Moral intervention was by itself at best a mere palliative unless co-ordinated by official sanitary regulation . |