Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] than merely [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dangers of excessive alcohol are perhaps more obvious and the real problem here is that the effect is cumulative rather than merely temporary . |
| 2 | His position develops into scepticism proper ( i.e. the view that knowledge is impossible rather than merely rarer than one thinks ) when the standards are set so high that they can not be fulfilled . |
| 3 | And that judgement of mine is as much universalizable , as binding on my future judgements about relevantly similar cases , as if the example had been real rather than merely imaginary . |
| 4 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 5 | The latter had developed the view that ‘ social norms are constitutive rather than merely regulative of human nature before he was influenced by psychoanalytic theory ’ . |