Example sentences of "than a mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact that , after five years of separation , I 'm still married to Ross is nothing more than a mere technicality ! ’ |
| 2 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 3 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 4 | Moreover , his ‘ faith ’ might entail something much more profound than a mere conviction of Cortés 's divinity . |
| 5 | Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration . |
| 6 | However , since it is more than a mere sign , it partakes of the reality it signifies and is a means of grace through which the atoning work of Christ is made effective in the life of the Christian . |
| 7 | The project will try to go further than a mere description of attitudes or beliefs : the object is to explain their origins in previous experiences and to predict their implications for future action . |
| 8 | The formal environment within which this form of communication takes place ; the circulation of preprints or abstracts prior to conferences ; the peer review involved in the selection of speakers and topics ; and the public nature of the talks , all ensure that this form of oral presentation is a much more structured and circumscribed communication than a mere conversation . |
| 9 | With all the evil there is , there is no man but would rather be a free agent , than a mere machine without the evil ; and what is best for each individual , must be best for the whole . |
| 10 | Yet , a number of democratic constitutions today contain more than a mere organisation chart of functions and powers ; they contain Bills of Rights , which may also include a charter of social and economic rights , something characteristic of constitutions of the twentieth century , although generally honoured more in the breach than in the observance . |
| 11 | ‘ Or you risk more than a mere snub . ’ |
| 12 | This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required . |
| 13 | For the thousands of families who flocked into Little Rock this was more than a mere election . |
| 14 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 15 | The term is more a measure of the sort of living a holding will provide and the labour involved than a mere acreage . |
| 16 | ‘ More than a mere friend , I hope . |
| 17 | Waste can also be a product , for example , where it is sold as a by-product or if it is disposed in a supply situation , rather than a mere discharge , where it may be covered under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 . |
| 18 | ‘ poeticity ’ , he says , is like oil in cooking ; you can not have it on its own but when it is used with other food it is more than a mere addition . |
| 19 | This is more than a mere measure of the offensive character in question . |
| 20 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
| 21 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 22 | They treat Scotland as no more than a mere appendage of England , and seek to impose on Scotland an educational agenda that is irrelevant to the real needs of Scottish education . |
| 23 | The organizational separateness and distinctiveness of the state makes it much more than a mere mirror of , or passive receptacle for , the demands of society . |
| 24 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 25 | Admit you want more than a mere boy can offer . |
| 26 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 27 | Over 30 years ago J H Sheldon , whose 'Social Medicine of Old Age' is still one of the most farsighted and compassionate reviews of the circumstances of older people , described old age as ‘ a quality of mind and body whose time or onset varies from individual to individual , rather than a mere quantity expressed by the term of duration applicable to all . ’ |
| 28 | I believe Trade Unions recognised that there was more to the Bank Dispute in 1992 than a mere Salary Issue . |
| 29 | In such cases we have a notion of a whole which is more , at least phenomenologically , than a mere assemblage of parts . |
| 30 | A group is a lesser thing than a team , which performs at a higher level of cohesion than a mere group needs to ( see Teams on page 161 ) . |