Example sentences of "[verb] as merely [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed by virtue of the fact that the clause will be seen as merely adding extra information the natural presumption must be that this is not the basis for " recognizability " . |
| 2 | State policies were seen as merely modifying the particular application of the law . |
| 3 | The reference here to ‘ managers ’ or ‘ superiors ’ as representing the organisation is an interesting one because professional development in this context could be interpreted as merely serving the interest of the dominant hegemony . |
| 4 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 5 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |