Example sentences of "as [art] mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 2 | Equally , no purpose would have been served by asking him to approach total strangers in the street , as the mere thought of this would have been so terrifying to the young man that he would probably have given up there and then . |
| 3 | It is unfair to see her , as Soviet historians have done , as the mere representative of the Russian nobility , trampling underfoot the interests of the great mass of the population to serve those of a small ruling class . |
| 4 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |
| 5 | The monarch , it was argued , unable to escape from his burdens by resignation , as a mere minister could , and anxious to pass on undiminished to his heirs what he had inherited from his ancestors , was the safest and most effective possible guardian of the public welfare . |
| 6 | They went up another narrow passageway , not so much a passage as a mere slit between houses , and came out suddenly into open space . |
| 7 | It is their experience in the field of solid state that they have poured into this anniversary model , at the same time dismissing the hybrid technology as a mere conjuring trick . |
| 8 | It is quite illegitimate to treat a person in such a situation as a mere swindler . |
| 9 | The bare infinitive expresses a possibility which was not realized in this use and is therefore conceived in the same way as it is with the modal auxiliaries , as a mere potential , except for the fact that no particular form of potentiality is attributed to it . |