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Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

A mere repetition of other people's research cannot be called true scientific research.

mere coincidence

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

According to the "ahl al-haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all what we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.

Is it mere coincidence that "banality", when anagrammed, reads "Ban Italy"?

Mum, a mere woman surrounded by men, works in a construction company as a site foreman.

Robinson considers nature a mere object of scientific study to exploit for his own uses and pleasure.

Mere decay produces richer life.

The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity.

Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.

a mere child; the merest suggestion of criticism; it was sold for a mere £45

"We did a slow circuit of the castle, watching Thomas roll down the steep parts of the hill, feeding the ducks that by this stage in the season were so well stuffed they could barely be bothered to come over for mere bread. "

questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals

However, in any historical process, such details are mere trivialities.

I think a plain dress will look more elegant than a patterned one.

Soba is made of buckwheat flour, and udon and kishimen are made of plain wheat flour.

Most of the plain, simple, everyday things he desires can be secured by people of average means.

Plenty of stalls selling fried rattlesnake, rattlesnake kebabs, barbecued rattler, or just plain baked rattlesnake.

plain furnishing

Plain English is a shortcut to the goal of language learning.

Your opinion is off the mark. That's plain to anyone.

The spacious plain spread as far as the eye can see, dotted with groves here and there.

A nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik.

At no time does the plain look so perfect as in early autumn.

I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.

Ms. Yamada translated the fascinating fairy tale into plain Japanese.

Stracciatella ice-cream is nothing but a plain ice-cream with chocolate chips.

Please ensure you always include a link-back in your replies. ">>" in plain ASCII + number (e.g. >>1).

Her clothes were old and dirty, and she wore a tight, plain cap over her beautiful blonde hair.

an ordinary day

In hard times like this, no ordinary effort can get our company out of the red.

A special resolution to be proposed at a general meeting may be amended by ordinary resolution.

While long-term credit banks are authorized by law to issue bonds to raise fund, they are not allowed to take deposits the way ordinary banks are.

The doctors say the dying man should have kicked the bucket hours ago, were he an ordinary man, but he is still defying death.

Essentially it's a one-to-one match, but the content of that match is a level so high as to be unthinkable to an ordinary person.

Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.

Women who, at first glance, appear to be completely ordinary also don't seem to be in that much of a rush to get married.

To take an express train, we have to get an express ticket in addition to an ordinary ticket.

Having misconceptions of what mathematics is is even more ordinary than not knowing how to spell my name.

“An ordinary common or garden rat like this

ordinary meeting, proceedings

I'm just ordinary person with a normal life - but I'm quite happy.

During the week these men have ordinary jobs and they’re model citizens.

I think that now there is far too much information for an ordinary consumer in Europe. Look, the ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of hearing about microcredit.

A common way to finance a budget deficit is to issue bonds.

in common

Unless otherwise decided by the directors, if the company has a common seal and it is affixed to a document, the document must also be signed by at least one authorised person in the presence of a witness who attests the signature.

Mathematicians have this in common with the French: whatever you're trying to say to them, they take it and translate it in their own way and turn it around into something completely different.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

In a country where individualism is more common, personal objections to smoking in public are usually respected.

If you listen to great music even the most common things become something magnificent.

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind?

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

In most people's eyes she was nothing more than a common criminal. We are working together for a common purpose. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in this country.