Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The organizational separateness and distinctiveness of the state makes it much more than a mere mirror of , or passive receptacle for , the demands of society . |
2 | Today likewise Piraeus ' importance makes it much more than a mere annex of Athens and it has its own political traditions , regularly voting communist . |
3 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
4 | At the same time both syllabus and materials would emphasise that the primary curriculum is seen as something much wider than a mere list of topics to be covered in class . |
5 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
6 | She paid her ten pence at the glass cage of the entrance booth , to a young man who could not possibly be the custodian , Great-Uncle Alan 's contemporary , but was clearly something rather more scholarly than a mere gate-keeper . |
7 | Moreover , his ‘ faith ’ might entail something much more profound than a mere conviction of Cortés 's divinity . |
8 | This is meaning in as rich an intentional sense as one is likely to get — far more than the mere instilling of ( first-order ) knowledge with which McDowell deals . |