Example sentences of "more [subord] [art] exercise " in BNC.
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| 1 | For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation . |
| 2 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 3 | Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ? |
| 4 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 5 | It was felt that the state does not want to protect people and the legislation was nothing more than an exercise in buying time ( something that the people of West Belfast have n't got ) . |
| 6 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 7 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |