Example sentences of "merely [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notice merely records the name and registered number of the company , the nature of the document and the date of its receipt . |
| 2 | Second , if the intermediary merely signs the customer agreement on behalf of the client or receives notifications on his behalf , and the client is the customer name , the client will be a direct customer in any event . |
| 3 | In short , the initial round of purchases by Scotch Whisky companies from their immediate suppliers merely represents the beginning of a ripple effect , spreading ‘ backwards ’ through the UK economy and impacting on a wide range of sectors . |
| 4 | An auxiliary , therefore , does not evoke a separate event from that expressed by the verb form it accompanies , but merely denotes the way the latter 's event is conceived , the point of view from which the speaker regards it . |
| 5 | Strictly speaking an introduction to the Stock Exchange merely involves the acquisition of a listing and the permission for the company 's existing shares to be traded on the Exchange . |
| 6 | For example , if information is required on ‘ primary education ’ and this is a heading in the appropriate printed index , then the search profile merely involves the term ‘ primary education ’ . |
| 7 | He also always displayed apparent technical ease with the difficult rhythmic and harmonic extensions that so divided ‘ swing ’ from ‘ bebop ’ jazz performers not so many years before , and his lightning quick playing merely reinforces the impression that he was never really extended . |
| 8 | How far the Prime Minister uses his or her power of appointment or , to put this another way , merely accepts the Lord Chancellor 's advice varies with different Prime Ministers and differing circumstances . |
| 9 | The client may feel the deal has been negotiated and merely wants the lawyer to tie up the loose ends . |
| 10 | A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims … |
| 11 | ( Shall we make this distinction : that love enhances the confidence , whereas sexual conquest merely develops the ego ? ) |
| 12 | A lien holder merely has the right to detain the goods subject to the lien until the debt has been paid . |
| 13 | If the sublease merely incorporates the valuation formula and machinery contained in the headlease , the rent review clause in the sublease will be capable of operation whether or not the rent review clause is exercised in the headlease . |
| 14 | This rather petty , predictably prosaic fiction is ultimately as vindictively misrepresentative of Nizan as the fictional account of Nizan 's existence in Simone Tery 's Beaux en/ants qui n'hesitez pas , published in 1957 , is fatuously misrepresentative , Tery 's fictional transposition of Nizan in the character of Pierre Dumont merely submerges the reality of Nizan 's life beneath a flood of naive communist rhetoric . |
| 15 | It merely articulates the principle of identity embodied in the concept of a topic of discourse , and any attempt to prove ( or disprove , for that matter ) the identity of a topic talked about on two separate occasions already presupposes the validity of this principle . |
| 16 | That question merely illustrates the fact that the Labour party is historically a party of unilateral disarmament and that , by prejudice and policy , it is to a considerable degree still a party of unilateral disarmament . |
| 17 | Since , as we have argued , disorder is frequently motivated by the failure to find any other effective voice , media coverage merely perpetuates the problem . |
| 18 | Economic dirigisme merely legitimates the use of political power to protect powerful vested interests : the Italian economy and political class are largely in thrall to the big companies . |
| 19 | So beta merely uses the correlation coefficient to weight the ratio of the risks of the security and the market . |
| 20 | The leader of a bream shoal merely leads the way and sets a pattern of behaviour that the rest of the shoal follow . |
| 21 | The horrors of trench warfare and of the slaughter without limits of the First War are by now so familiar to the modern reader that further recounting merely benumbs the mind . |
| 22 | Some advocates of European union argue that the Bosnian shambles merely underlines the need for a single foreign policy . |
| 23 | And the very fact they have secured the services of two of modern-day hockey 's finest servants — prolific Great Britain and England goalscorer Sean Kerly and Dutchman Flores Jan Rovelander , probably the world 's greatest short corner exponent , merely underlines the frontier town club 's ambition . |
| 24 | The fact that it is costly merely underlines the fact that sustainable development is costly . |
| 25 | Such a clause does not relieve the parties from the obligation to register a registrable sale agreement , it merely suspends the operation of the relevant restrictions until particulars of the agreement have been furnished to the OFT . |
| 26 | The contradictory nature of these statements — media omnipotence and the barrier to it in people 's predispositions — merely confirms the difficulty of examining a process as complex as that of mass communication . |
| 27 | Censorship merely confirms the view that sex is dirty and must be hidden away , out of sight and — cross fingers — out of mind . |
| 28 | Prefabricated fibreglass pools , pool-liners and traditional concrete can all yield a first-class formal water feature , for this aspect of the design merely affects the surface , the shape that the pool takes and , to a lesser extent , the manner in which it adjoins the surrounding garden . |
| 29 | 3.4 To say that awards of damages in respect of non-pecuniary losses should be of amounts that are fair and reasonable having regard to the social , economic and industrial conditions in England and Wales merely raises the question what , in any particular case , is fair and reasonable . |
| 30 | But this merely raises the problem of a definition of " truth conditions " and it is difficult to see how such a definition can steer clear of the question of " ontological commitment " . |