Example sentences of "more than mere [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
| 2 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 3 | Databases are being taught how the world works , and thus becoming more than mere filing cabinets |
| 4 | There , musicianship and musical intelligence count for more than mere voice . |
| 5 | In essence , the complication is that retailers provide ‘ much more than mere warehousing ’ ( Marvel and McCafferty , 1984 , p. 348 ) . |
| 6 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 7 | It is more than mere style , something beyond the old ‘ something must be done ’ concern . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was the nagging awareness that he too had hoped to gain more than mere gratification from their acquaintance . |
| 10 | At the same time the emergence of GCSE English has come to mean more than mere changes of emphasis at the upper end of secondary schools . |
| 11 | Hence the extent to which Conservative criminology is here to stay depends on more than mere changes of political parties . |
| 12 | Comics cram a great deal of information into a brief space , which makes them a potent force for more than mere storytelling . |
| 13 | Even if the student attempts to revise , he/she will tend no to do much more than mere repetition . |
| 14 | Something more than mere loneliness , mere senile fantasies and quirks , burnt in his striking eyes , in that abrupt , probing then dropping conversation , in those sudden oblique looks at nothing . |
| 15 | There may be more than mere nostalgia in all this . |
| 16 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 17 | Their response is more than mere cynicism , however , as they offer excellent concrete proposals for an overhaul , not just of US , but of all major aid and development agencies ' programs . |
| 18 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 19 | I often thought Rob was like him in more than mere looks , ’ she went on thoughtfully , then her tone lightened . |
| 20 | In the Celtic sense , Sovereignty means more than mere exercise of power . |
| 21 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 22 | Many of these features are unique to these mountains , and make them of much more than mere climbing interest . |
| 23 | The section 6(2) and section 61(1) remedies are more than mere machinery . |
| 24 | Awarded a vast and sudden insight , as if Valiance himself had spoken the words , Dauntless knew that the ghosts were more than mere spirits of dead people . |
| 25 | The common property , if it is more than mere cash in hand or at the bank , will be vested in trustees who must deal with it in accordance with the rules or with any trust expressly declared , and it can be made liable for obligations incurred by , or on behalf of , the society . |
| 26 | The reply , however , consists in more than mere reiteration or insistence . |
| 27 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 28 | Yet body language often tells us so much more than mere words . |
| 29 | He knew that Sharpe 's insults were more than mere anger , but a deliberate provocation to a duel . |
| 30 | This may not be a totally convincing critique of modern society , but it has clear modern relevance and is more than mere dislike . |