Example sentences of "[conj] [art] mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one knows whether it is the vast crowds — around 120,000 will be present over the next three days — or the mere hint that spring is really in the air again that motivates them , but Festival form certainly counts . |
| 2 | A heavy footfall , the cracking of a twig , or the mere vibration of a toe dragging on the grass while you are crawling on your belly can often be enough . |
| 3 | This conclusion should not be affected by any view we take about whether the use of memory constitutes a re-examination of the original sensation or a mere inspection of how that sensation now seems to us to have been . |
| 4 | The more sociological aspects of leisure and rural amenity have been overlooked in favour of the purely physical aspects of recreational planning or a mere headcount of who goes where , when and for how long . |
| 5 | For television is not a ‘ neutral ’ provider of images or a mere facilitator , it has increasingly determined the manner in which high performance sport is played and presented to the public . |
| 6 | A statement from the heart or a mere publicity stunt ? |
| 7 | Congress has not become a parliamentary poodle or a mere captive of the executive branch ; it remains an imposing and fractious body , fully capable of defending its position and thwarting presidential ambitions . |
| 8 | One such is Marilyn Lawrence 's The Anorexic Experience ( The Women 's Press , 1984 ) , which I found did talk about my experiences without making me feel weirder than ever , or a mere statistic . |
| 9 | However , where there is a breach of any term which is not a condition , that breach could be either repudiatory ( i.e. equivalent in effect to a breach of condition ) or a mere breach of warranty ( i.e. giving rise only to a claim to damages ) . |
| 10 | The Venerable David Silk , Archdeacon of Leicester , summing up the theological opposition , said that in ordaining women the Church of England would ‘ cease to be part of the Catholic , apostolic church and would be behaving as if it were the whole of Christianity , or a mere sect ’ . |
| 11 | This fuller appreciation may result from a short or a long article , even occasionally some unexpected insight or well-phrased judgement ; but it will not come from a brief comment off the cuff , an item of gossip , or a mere listing . |
| 12 | Atheism for Marxism is not an optional extra or a mere facet but the very essence of it . |
| 13 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 14 | There can be no reasonable argument about migrants if one side takes the position that nobody should ever be sent back to anywhere , that the mere act of emigration in itself constitutes grounds for supposing that circumstances were unbearable in the country of origin . |
| 15 | Sometimes it appears that the mere act of measuring them in order to manufacture a candle of corresponding dimensions to burn at the tomb was sufficient to effect the cure . |
| 16 | It is only if we are in the grip of a mistaken conception of truth that the mere possibility of a belief being mistaken carries with it the threat of scepticism ; it is an indication that the sceptic 's conception of truth is not ours that his arguments do not prompt an epistemic crisis . |
| 17 | The general drift of critical correspondence suggested that the mere publishing of the series was anti-semitic . |
| 18 | It may be , too , that the mere quantity of the chromosomal material may have an effect on secondary sexual characteristics if not on primary ones . |
| 19 | Environmentalists believe that the mere designation of areas as greenspaces is insufficient . |
| 20 | Good looking women gather in such large numbers that the mere sight of them appeases the appetite , although [ of course ] for the lecherous this does not suffice . |
| 21 | Obviously he had thought that the mere sight of them would frighten her into standing quietly and listening , but he was wrong . |
| 22 | But it is not likely that the mere provision of information would necessarily alter sentencers ' practices . |
| 23 | As I understand it , Kitto J. is saying that the mere availability to the payee of summary remedies for non-payment may amount to sufficient compulsion on the payer to entitle him to recover irrespective of whether the payee has given any indication that he proposes to exercise such remedies . |
| 24 | There is authority for the proposition that the mere existence of an alternative remedy will not oust such jurisdiction ; in other words , the existence of the alternative gives the court a discretion whether or not to award a remedy . |
| 25 | But it is clear that the mere existence of an alternative remedy does not oust judicial review . |
| 26 | Both judges of the Divisional Court , Cave and Wills JJ. , considered that the mere existence of the power to cut off the water supply without any threat to exercise that power did not prevent the payment from being voluntary . |
| 27 | This House was asserting that the mere existence of a mistake of law made at some earlier stage does not vitiate the actual decision made : what must be shown is a relevant error of law , i.e. , an error in the actual making of the decision which affected the decision itself . |
| 28 | Their Lordships agree that the mere existence or recital of a prior request is not sufficient in itself to convert what is prima facie past consideration into sufficient consideration in law to support a promise , as they have indicated , it is only the first of three necessary preconditions . |
| 29 | Section 19 penalises possession of a loaded firearm in a public place , presumably in circumstances where the section 16 offence can not be proved , but on the argument that the mere possession is sufficiently dangerous because accidents can happen with loaded guns , and the consequences might be life-endangering . |
| 30 | Protagonists argue that the nation 's defence is more important and that the mere possession of nuclear weapons prevents attack by other nuclear powers . |