Example sentences of "more than simply " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 2 | It is precisely this capacity for renewed interpretation that makes literature of more than simply historical interest . |
| 3 | In ecumenical circles of late we have been reminded that ‘ remembering ’ in the biblical context was far more than simply recalling to mind what God had done in the past . |
| 4 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 5 | On the other hand , a high moral tone may denounce but fails to understand the problem , which is more than simply one of human weakness . |
| 6 | The word ‘ habitat ’ implies more than simply the physical environment of an animal . |
| 7 | For real benefit , allow your exercise to help you on more than simply a physical level . |
| 8 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No matter — Motian 's small groups have been ‘ led ’ by Frisell 's electric guitar since the 1980s and in practice , Evans 's complex Walkin' up , or the equally complex interplay of instruments and tempi in Five do more than simply survive with either guitar or saxophone ( or both ) leading . |
| 11 | JUNE 's CD Review will feature ZUBIN MEHTA ; more than simply the conductor of the ‘ Three Tenors ’ concert , Mehta 's work in Romantic opera remains a significant undercurrent in his career . |
| 12 | They recoil away as if the intruder were unpleasant to them — something more than simply shading them from sunlight . |
| 13 | The conclusion we reach , which we share with Wood , is that ‘ the quest for general trends , such as progressive deskilling of the work force , or general conclusions about the impact of new technologies are likely to be both theoretically and practically in vain ’ and that ‘ to incorporate worker resistance , labour and product markets and extra-economic factors involves more than simply extending one 's analysis ; it amounts to a theoretical reconsideration ’ ( Wood 1982 , 18 , 22 ) . |
| 14 | There are so many essays and books about the so-called ‘ crisis ’ in English studies that I can do little more than simply explain my own beliefs and show how these underlie the Cox Report 's recommendations for a National Curriculum . |
| 15 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
| 16 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
| 17 | Of course , there are times when a greater sense of control does more than simply enhance the driving experience . |
| 18 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
| 19 | That in turn involves much more than simply studying him as a figure of past history , or breathing in his historical influence . |
| 20 | This allows us to do more than simply check back on the forecasters ' performance on individual countries ; it enables us to assess which forecaster has the best record across all the big economies . |
| 21 | But as the South-East Asian boom has gathered pace , so the area has become something more than simply Japan 's backyard . |
| 22 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 23 | It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present . |
| 24 | We are concerned , then , with more than simply linguistic competence . |
| 25 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 30 | When philosophers dismiss women as ‘ not-men ’ they frequently do more than simply lump them together with children or lunatics . |