Sentence examples for mere box from inspiring English sources

Hitherto, home-entertainment sales sustained output that couldn't have survived on mere box office receipts.

Needless to say, the events that led to the deadliest attack on American soil tells us this statement is flawed — the terrorists on Sept. 11 used mere box cutters, much smaller than the blades that will now be allowed, to hijack planes.

There was general agreement that the PC had become a commodity product, its makers mere box-shifters, and that growth prospects were mediocre.

Rather, we left more aware of the complexity of consent and how it depends on a nuanced understanding of context rather than a mere box-ticking exercise.

But there is a danger that safeguarding and protection can become a mere box-ticking exercise rather than promoting choice in the care system.

Its rivals in other industries have been alerted to its tactics: having seen PC makers reduced to mere box-shifters while Microsoft makes a fortune, they do not want the same to happen to them.

The identity of their opponents means this is more than a mere box-ticking exercise but, similarly to several others, the primary interest around Chelsea now is in establishing apple-pie order for their incoming manager Antonio Conte.

And most of the sex scenes that provide mere box-checking could do without nudity could be done with faces, hands, gestures, or other more inventive implications; the rest is pornography.

Mr. Barnes "integrated pitched and gabled roofs into the International Style vocabulary," Mr. Dixon said, creating a series of modernist buildings that weren't mere boxes, but compelling geometric forms.

Mine would include the cultural illiteracy of key decision makers, both in city government and in private civic groups; the notion that the new buildings for cultural institutions can be mere boxes for housing cultural functions; the failure to grasp, therefore, that the cultural responsibility of the container is at least as great as the contained.

Whereas we have long considered our television sets to be mere boxes for broadcasting pre determined content to us as passive consumers, we are increasingly taking control of that content.