Example sentences of "more [conj] simple " in BNC.

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1 Yet by normal standards her cautious words — she 's 64 , after all — were no more than simple common sense .
2 The dedication to their appearance of stars such as the luminous , fiftyish , Catherine Deneuve , sixtyish socialites such as Marie Helene de Rothschild or Helene de Mortemart and political wives such as Bernadette Chirac and Claude Pompidou , may be much more than simple vanity and may involve no self-admiration at all .
3 There is a tendency when first writing objectives to limit them to simple forms of behaviour , such as the reproduction of facts and the demonstration of skills ; but if we , as teachers , are to offer our students anything more than simple training , we must be able to devise objectives that describe more complex operations .
4 Such areas require more than simple changes to the plan of the street if safety is to be radically improved .
5 On the one hand , such proposals seem no more than simple common sense : why should courts decide disputes without being aware of the wider ramifications of what they are deciding .
6 It must also amount to more than simple investments in bricks and mortar and extend beyond conventional methods of professional development for primary care practitioners .
7 When one looks more closely at the individual creation myths one recognizes that the work will involve more than simple description of the myths themselves ; it will be necessary to go into the societies from which they sprang in at least sufficient detail for the myths to be appreciated in context .
8 The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule .
9 But he meant something other by the word : something more than simple agreement .
10 Even the evolutionists who accepted that species change in response to adaptive pressures realized that something more than simple adaptation was involved .
11 Galleries are much more than simple exhibition spaces .
12 The gesture betrayed more than simple fatigue .
13 The methods of analysis and presenting data are standard descriptive techniques , but it is always the aim of scientists to derive more than simple descriptions of their materials .
14 Despite evidence that reading encompasses much more than simple character recognition little of this language information has been exploited in text recognition systems .
15 At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic .
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