Example sentences of "[adj] than merely [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 2 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 3 | Ask other lawyers about George , and there is acknowledgement of his gifts , even that he is more than merely a jury man , but rarely much warmth . |
| 4 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 5 | [ The alternative ] means more than merely a different way of ‘ doing social science ’ . |
| 6 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
| 7 | This applies for example to the demand side , where the choice of functional forms is more than merely a matter of algebraic convenience ( see Dixit and Stiglitz , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Houses , particularly in Western society , confer upon their occupants much more than merely the roofs over their heads ; they involve status and an expression of place in society . |
| 9 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
| 10 | We are proposing , along with Cotte , that let evokes much more than merely the speech act of giving permission : it signifies giving an event access to existence , permitting something by not intervening to obstruct its being accomplished . |
| 11 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 12 | The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion . |
| 13 | It is that we might , in other than merely a logical sense , have got yesterday but not last night . |