Example sentences of "[adj] than simply a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
2 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
3 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
4 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
5 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
6 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
7 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
8 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |