Example sentences of "[adj] than an exercise [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity .
2 For these very reasons , the care of our nation 's pubs is much more than an exercise in architectural conservation .
3 Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word .
4 Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ?
5 After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control .
6 It was felt that the state does not want to protect people and the legislation was nothing more than an exercise in buying time ( something that the people of West Belfast have n't got ) .
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