Example sentences of "[adj] than a [adj] device " in BNC.
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1 | Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience . |
2 | . Whether this manoeuvre is more than a technical device is dubious . |
3 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
4 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
5 | There is no hint that dreaming , in this context , was any more than a poetic device , with no connotation of the supernatural simply from the fact that it was a dream . |
6 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |