Example sentences of "[conj] mere [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All claims should be carefully vetted to ensure that no element of betterment is involved i.e. repairing what is pre-existing damage or mere deterioration due to age and use . |
| 2 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 3 | The War itself , in which he served , brought home to him the ruthless destructiveness of man as weapon or mere machine . |
| 4 | This payment could be either a deposit or mere part payment . |
| 5 | The effect of a deposit or mere part payment is a matter of agreement between the parties . |
| 6 | It is in virtue of this potential that people matter in a way in which no thing , or mere animal , can do . |
| 7 | In that world , to be brief , it could be an accident or mere coincidence that the rain was accompanied by the balcony 's being wet . |
| 8 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 9 | Their chances of success were far less where they were relegated to the position of enactor or mere facilitator , as some were . |
| 10 | 3. truth per se matters ; beliefs and values based on a falsehood or mere prejudice are not only unstable but likely to cause much damage and hurt to the people holding them as well as to others who may become their victims . |
| 11 | Philip claims that this is a domain as yet unexplored by psychoanalysis , and he suggests that possibly this is just as well : ‘ Some call it truth , some creation , some fiction , history , memory or mere jingling of bells . |
| 12 | It is no new idea to say that the single , casual act of adultery , in terms of marital effect , can be a very little thing — a matter of two people with attraction and opportunity , possibly heightened by over-excitement , alcohol or mere absence from the sexual comfort of home . |
| 13 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 14 | From time to time persons distinguished in the fields of making war , healing , diplomacy , or mere grace in the sight of kings , have been granted augmentations to their armorial bearings ; and the discovery of , and comment on , these can — where they are relevant — make a small but useful contribution to the rounding out of a local history . |
| 15 | This is exactly what language training for children or adults ( rather than mere translation ) succeeds in doing . |
| 16 | There may be more than mere nostalgia in all this . |
| 17 | Among those who campaigned tirelessly for gifted youngsters , knowing full well that there was more at stake than mere survival , was Greta Burkill . |
| 18 | It is more than mere style , something beyond the old ‘ something must be done ’ concern . |
| 19 | We are certainly dealing with matters much more serious than mere inconvenience . |
| 20 | A sense of timing 's always been more important than mere dishonesty . ’ |
| 21 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
| 22 | He agrees with my belief that to understand Berlioz 's structure , you have to perceive his sense of timbre and orchestral sonority as architectural rather than mere colour ; structures built of contrasting or complimentary sound . |
| 23 | Her deliberate breach of protocol at No. 10 might be construed partly as a late revenge for those teenage tortures , though her anger , now transmuted into political sloganising , runs deeper than mere petulance . |
| 24 | But his policy as a whole was much more than mere posturing . |
| 25 | Often their most urgent needs , in any case , are for public investments ( in education , sanitation , health-care and so on ) that are unlikely to appeal to private investors — or for technical help , which can be far more productive than mere money . |
| 26 | Self-respect means more to me than mere money — ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 28 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 29 | Soil husbandry involves much more than mere ploughing and cultivation , although these are hard-won skills in themselves . |
| 30 | I made you live again and I wanted to know there was more than mere excitement for you . ’ |