Example sentences of "than simply a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 2 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 3 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 4 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 5 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 6 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 7 | If so , it is necessary to adopt a therapeutic rather than simply a directive approach , and to pay particular attention to establishing such a relationship with the patient . |
| 8 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 9 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 10 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 11 | I would like to suggest that an answer to this question should address broader concerns than simply a desire to make a representation of appearance . |