Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] mere [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Suppose that what I tell you should mean more to your life than the mere listening ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the Royal Fort as a house , or to be more precise a suite of reception rooms added to an older complex , has something of much greater imaginative reach than a mere froth of writhing plaster feather-work and gilding such as London 's lost Chesterfield House once displayed . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |