Example sentences of "not a mere " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We now need a new party , one that is the heir and not a mere continuation of the present one . |
| 2 | A soldier or airman on active service , or mariner at sea , can make an informal will , even by word of mouth , which will be valid provided that his communication to his audience was not a mere statement , but a request to him to see his intention carried out . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe this is the only country in which there has been a national acknowledgment of God 's directing Providence in the cholera , and I believe it is not a mere outward form but that more and more are becoming every day religious . ’ |
| 4 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 5 | Tagore wrote of this poem — ‘ The feeling that man is not a mere casual visitor at the palace-gate of the world , but the invited guest whose presence is needed to give the royal banquet its sole meaning , is not confined to any particular sect in India . |
| 6 | He was moved to do this because of the feeling that this is not a mere river but the Lord 's compassion flowing before us . |
| 7 | It is not a mere reflection of it ; the media do not simply report the world for us in any ‘ neutral ’ or ‘ objective ’ sense , they interpret the world for us . |
| 8 | Bagehot also urged that the monarch must ‘ be a figure , and not a mere person liable to criticism even for vices . ’ |
| 9 | At the same time it must be stressed that the ecclesiastical character of ‘ ultramontanism ’ ( the dominant , Rome-centred , theory and practice of Catholicism in this period ) was not a mere post-Revolution reaction : it was the direct heir of medieval papalist and Counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 10 | It is not a mere means to X + Y , since it is a part of it , but still the 90 degrees of value are not its value . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Lewin was not a mere passer-by . |
| 12 | Contrary to what some historians have thought , the campaign in Spain was not a mere side issue . |
| 13 | It is not a mere matter of citizenship ; it is a birthright and a shared inheritance . |
| 14 | In 1950 the Court had held these ‘ declarations to constitute recognition by the Union of the continuance of the obligations under the Mandate and not a mere indication of future conduct of that government . ’ |
| 15 | It should provide a readable condensation of the recent literature : a critical appraisal , not a mere catalogue . |
| 16 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 17 | This is not a mere constructive tenancy as that was . |
| 18 | The fallacy in the plaintiffs ' argument lay in the assertion that the challenged paragraphs of the order of Buckley J. constituted a proprietary remedy and not a mere order for discovery . |
| 19 | The standardizing , regularizing , authoritative properties often assigned to print as a medium ( though many of them are inherent in any writing system ) could have full social effect only if they had this broad coherence with general developments in the social and labour processes , to which , however , print was not a mere ancillary , for it was one of the forms of such development . |
| 20 | The cyclic model of development was intended to thwart the transmutationists , but was not a mere product of Owen 's and Miller 's imaginations . |
| 21 | In Flockhart v. Robinson Lord Goddard C.J. said that it is ‘ not a mere body of persons ; it is a body of persons who are moving along a route . ’ |
| 22 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 23 | Enlightened Despotism is not a mere figment of the historian 's imagination . |