Example sentences of "than the mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 2 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 3 | Control of the flow of official information to newspapers and agencies and the giving of carefully orchestrated interviews to foreign correspondents were now usually more likely to be effective in moulding opinion than the mere spending of money ; and France , with its plethora of small , financially insecure and often venal newspapers , was something of a special case . |
| 4 | It is the view that actually occurring thought , rather than the mere ability or capacity to think , is essential to mind . |
| 5 | But even at this date the alteration in emphasis can only have been a conscious attempt to attune to the wider audience , if still at that time mainly within Bavaria , which was beginning to show interest in Hitler in 1923 , and an awareness that anti-Marxism had a wider potential appeal than the mere repetition of anti-Jewish paroxysms of hate . |
| 6 | The justification advanced — and clearly it has some validity — is that medical opinion is divided , or , more important , that the legal concept is of a different nature from the medical , involving considerations other than the mere question of scientific evidence , such as notions of responsibility or the common good . |
| 7 | ‘ Suppose that what I tell you should mean more to your life than the mere listening ? ’ |
| 8 | Attunement as used here means more than the mere experience ( of earth energies ) and implies some response — often called artistic inspiration and expression . |
| 9 | This is meaning in as rich an intentional sense as one is likely to get — far more than the mere instilling of ( first-order ) knowledge with which McDowell deals . |
| 10 | The infant Elizabeth will learn that being promised a sweet for behaving herself will result in more than the mere probability of its arrival ; the penny will have dropped when she realises that a promise entitles her to the reward — it is her due , to which she has a right . |
| 11 | There was more than a touch of class disdain in their attitude , but it also signified a political distance , an understanding that the parliamentary representatives had softer views and a broader idea of their responsibilities than the mere enactment of their supporters ' prejudices . |
| 12 | The crime element will provide your readers with a greater incentive to turn the pages than the mere wish to see what comic event will happen next . |
| 13 | ( g ) Skipp is to be treated as a case where " there was much more than the mere consent of the owner . |
| 14 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 15 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 16 | If ministerial responsibility were more than the mere shadow of a name , the matter would be less important , but as it is , the Courts are the only defence of the liberty of the subject against departmental aggression . |
| 17 | So your research for this sort of book should be wider than the mere acquisition of facts about bustle skirts or togas or doublet and hose . |
| 18 | He must no doubt be acting not for the mere purpose of putting money in his pocket , but for some legitimate purpose other than the mere acquisition of money … … . |
| 19 | But even when consent is given a more positive content , and a definite " yes " is required rather than the mere absence of " no " , it remains an indelibly passive concept . |
| 20 | Such an imaginative concept , involving the realisation that the earth is a dynamic planet in a constant state of movement , made geology a much more attractive and stimulating subject than the mere study of dusty rocks and fossils had seemed earlier , and many more undergraduates wanted to pursue careers in such an exciting field . |
| 21 | more than the mere fact of existence ; it is as it were the ego quality of this existence . |
| 22 | For instance , Pythagoras ' proof that the sides of a right-angled triangle are related by the formula a N2 + b N2 = c N2 shows more than the mere fact that all right-angled triangles do have this property . |
| 23 | But it will scarcely be more , nor need it be more , than the mere fact of no name being able to be clearly attached to the murderer till the book is nearly over . |
| 24 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |