Example sentences of "[be] merely [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 2 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 3 | I am merely arguing that the role in science attributed to observation statements by the inductivist is incorrect . |
| 4 | We are merely suggesting that if the right hon. Member for Chingford has information he must place it before the appropriate authorities . |
| 5 | But Gray and Gallistel are merely denying that there is any certainty in the selection . |
| 6 | I 'm merely saying that their interpretation of certain policies is not coincident with my own . |
| 7 | I 'm merely saying that Gramps could not have been the father of her child ! ’ |
| 8 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 9 | The judge said he was merely holding that McCrory , of Belfast 's Shankhill Road , who is on remand on a charge of conspiracy to murder , had failed to establish that the governor 's decision was unreasonable . |
| 10 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |