Example sentences of "more [subord] simple [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one looks more closely at the individual creation myths one recognizes that the work will involve more than simple description of the myths themselves ; it will be necessary to go into the societies from which they sprang in at least sufficient detail for the myths to be appreciated in context . |
| 2 | Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems . |
| 3 | Even the evolutionists who accepted that species change in response to adaptive pressures realized that something more than simple adaptation was involved . |
| 4 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 5 | The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule . |
| 6 | Galleries are much more than simple exhibition spaces . |
| 7 | But he meant something other by the word : something more than simple agreement . |
| 8 | The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all . |
| 9 | The gesture betrayed more than simple fatigue . |
| 10 | There is a tendency when first writing objectives to limit them to simple forms of behaviour , such as the reproduction of facts and the demonstration of skills ; but if we , as teachers , are to offer our students anything more than simple training , we must be able to devise objectives that describe more complex operations . |