Example sentences of "more than mere [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was the nagging awareness that he too had hoped to gain more than mere gratification from their acquaintance . |
| 2 | At the same time the emergence of GCSE English has come to mean more than mere changes of emphasis at the upper end of secondary schools . |
| 3 | Hence the extent to which Conservative criminology is here to stay depends on more than mere changes of political parties . |
| 4 | There may be more than mere nostalgia in all this . |
| 5 | This parliamentary etiquette was much more than mere expression of ‘ Victorian prurience ’ . |
| 6 | In the Celtic sense , Sovereignty means more than mere exercise of power . |
| 7 | Awarded a vast and sudden insight , as if Valiance himself had spoken the words , Dauntless knew that the ghosts were more than mere spirits of dead people . |
| 8 | The common property , if it is more than mere cash in hand or at the bank , will be vested in trustees who must deal with it in accordance with the rules or with any trust expressly declared , and it can be made liable for obligations incurred by , or on behalf of , the society . |
| 9 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 10 | The second courtesy is to respect the land you are on and this is more than mere observance of the country code . |
| 11 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 12 | For the new government , economic regeneration rested on more than mere control of public expenditure . |
| 13 | We have more than mere ghosts on offer : wights , visitants , creep-haunts , duppies , spooks both gaseous and plasmic , bogles , lych-folk and ghouls . ’ |