Example sentences of "more [conj] mere [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His multi- handed companions play their parts ( albeit less exacting ones ) with no less skill , with a unanimity that stems from more than mere visual watchfulness ; the recording engineer has added his contribution in the form of truthful sound and first-rate balance . |
2 | Kimura argued that the lack of movement asymmetry in the humming condition showed that more than mere vocal activity was involved in producing the difference between the hands . |
3 | The elections have been organised without the facility for the candidates to address the electorate directly , that is with more than mere biographical detail . |
4 | Such a survey can serve more than mere biographical curiosity , and a final section will suggest how it may clarify some issues of current interest to historians , to philosophers and to biologists . |
5 | Largely as a result of Donald Griffin 's book The Question of Animal Awareness ( Rockefeller UP , 2nd ed 1981 ) , ethologists have begun to re-examine the issue of animal intellect and to ask whether the organisms they study are , as we presume ourselves to be , something more than mere mindless circuitry . |