Example sentences of "as merely a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |
| 2 | It should not be discounted as merely a cynical manipulation on his part in order to restore flagging revolutionary morale by invoking the imperialist threat , even though it has in practice served that purpose . |
| 3 | In common with the men of Qumran , with whom he seems to have had some links , John saw washing with water as merely a preparatory rite , while the great cleansing and the gift of the Spirit lay in the future ( I QS : 9–1 of and 4:21 ) . |
| 4 | In any case , as far as everyday quantum mechanics is concerned , we may regard our use of imaginary time and Euclidean space-time as merely a mathematical device ( or trick ) to calculate answers about real space-time . |
| 5 | Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case : the case where the economy is in deep recession . |
| 6 | We must give up regarding " good English " as merely a social or literary accomplishment , and … endeavour by research and by exposition to equip the masses with the ability to exercise a reasoned choice in the employment of language ; in other words … we must regard the training of the linguistic consciousness as an essential part of primary and secondary as well as University education . |
| 7 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 8 | Traditionalists , however , do not regard society as merely a gigantic market place and favour an authoritarian stand on many social issues , for example , on drugs , abortion , Sunday trading , and censorship . |
| 9 | The status of the foreign minister as merely a high-ranking bureaucrat meant that the diplomats whom he directed , and in particular the heads of the more important Russian missions abroad , often looked on him as more or less an equal and hardly as a superior at all . |
| 10 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 11 | They see our future as merely an offshore island for foreign investment which guarantees some tenuous future in the European Community . |