Example sentences of "[adj] than merely [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet objects were more than merely utilitarian or symbols of status and achievement . |
| 2 | For a second their glances leapt to meet each other , locking for a heart-stopping moment in a recognition that seemed more than merely superficial . |
| 3 | According to the law of attempts , the least that a defendant must be proved to have done is something ‘ more than merely preparatory ’ to sexual intercourse , with intent to have unlawful sexual intercourse without the woman 's consent . |
| 4 | Was this a more than merely temporary parting of the ways ? |
| 5 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 6 | Darwin ( 1871 ) remains an excellent review of the sexual characters of animals , with many thoughtful comments that are still relevant and are of more than merely historical interest . |
| 7 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 8 | Now , as Darwin sees it , at this time , for a change to be an adaptation it must be more than merely hereditary and advantageous ; it must be necessary rather than accidental , elicited , that is , by the very conditions that make it advantageous , as albinism sometimes seems to be by cold . |
| 9 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 10 | Moreover , under section 245 of the Code , bodily harm includes any hurt or injury that interferes with the health or comfort of the complainant and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature . |