Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | In short , we shall want to apply a notion of rationality to foreign policy decisions which is neither wholly calculative ( zweckrational ) nor mindless of consequences ( wertrational ) nor a mere mixture of the two . |
| 14 | This holiness is not merely a devotion to the deity ( there was plenty of such attachment in the ancient world that was far from holy — for instance the cult prostitution that was so common in the temples ) , nor a mere adherence to ethical rules ( there were plenty of those current in antiquity , too , and they possessed all the disadvantages , while lacking the advantages , of the Jewish law ) . |
| 15 | Phrases like ‘ Light of the World ’ , ‘ the Sun of Righteousness that setteth nevermore ’ and so on ran through my head without ceasing , and the mere sight of the sun was sufficient greatly to intensify this manic excitement under which I was labouring . |
| 16 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 17 | As between co-owners there is unity of possession , each is entitled to possession and use of the chattel , and the mere enjoyment in one way or another by one co-owner can not amount to conversion against the other . |
| 18 | This is never an easy matter and the mere attendance of students at a meeting can create the impression of real involvement when this is a long way from reality . |
| 19 | But , as I argued there , the conscious appetitive behaviour of animals is more than enough to drive a significant wedge between the expression of their needs and the mere presence of those of plants and machines . |
| 20 | For there are those who determine their own shape , their own direction , and the mere existence of them demonstrates Kao Tzu 's claim to be a misrepresentation . ’ |
| 21 | Cuts in capital budgets , use of the land dispersal register , and the mere threat of UDCs achieve the same political goals without incurring the political problems and contradictions of UDCs . |
| 22 | But in any case , her prominence in the preparations for the 5 October march , and her leading part in it , did not mean that she intended that it should lead to a violent outcome , and the mere fact of her CPNI membership can not be taken as evidence for the existence of a violent conspiracy . |
| 23 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 24 | But I am quite clear that the new system should have a trial under the most favourable possible circumstances ; and the mere fact that the new Chairman of the War Council did prefer , and , as far as I know still prefers , a different arrangement is , to my mind , quite conclusive , and leaves me in no doubt as to the manner in which I can best assist the Government which I desire to support . |
| 25 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 26 | A theatre annual for 1791 , extolling the fine orchestra ( under La Houssaye ) of the new Italianate Theatre de Monsieur , claims that French ensembles ‘ want to be reassured by a donkey-stick [ guideâne ] ’ But these are shafts on behalf of Italian opéra as a whole , trading on memories of Rousseau 's ridicule and the mere fact that the Opéra was directed by a conducteur . |
| 27 | It said that the Thalidomide disaster was a matter of public concern , and the mere fact that litigation was in progress did not alter the right and indeed responsibility of the mass media to impart information of public interest . |
| 28 | ‘ There has been a lot of pressure and the mere fact that there has been a parting does give both sides a buffer period . |
| 29 | It is generally argued , however , that the meaning " world " of is a post-Biblical development , and a mere possibility in the relationship of parallelistic lines ( " greater precision " ) can not be set against a linguistic certainty . |
| 30 | And a mere pickpocket would not have taken the trouble to steam the envelope open . ’ |