Example sentences of "it is merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is merely the football programme . ) |
| 2 | Even though drug testing has attracted the most controversy , it is merely part of a broad movement in America toward a Darwinian worker-selection policy , which has been dubbed ‘ employment of the fittest . ’ |
| 3 | This is not the much-touted ‘ end of history ’ that we are witnessing ; it is merely the end of the American ability to control events around the world . |
| 4 | Claiming that it is merely cleaning up a technicality , the government , in clause 50 of the current finance bill , is cheerily trying to rewrite the law , retroactively , five years after the event . |
| 5 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 6 | Instead it is merely an input distribution system . |
| 7 | Nowadays it is merely regarded as good luck . |
| 8 | It is merely action for some of these reasons which is excluded . |
| 9 | Perhaps it is merely that patent law is a subject which generates a fair amount of heat . ’ |
| 10 | Or it is merely called ‘ public policy ’ . |
| 11 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 12 | It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so . |
| 13 | It is merely a case of conditioning and adaptability . |
| 14 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 15 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is merely to accommodate the moths , but what the benefits are to either sloth or moth in their relationship is still not understood . |
| 17 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 18 | It is merely a cat being a cat . |
| 19 | However elaborate the equipment , it is merely magnifying the natural psychic ability ( or lack of it ) that the individual might have . |
| 20 | It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position . |
| 21 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 22 | There is no particular method of structuring government which is logically compelling ; it is merely a matter of some methods being more efficient than others . |
| 23 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 24 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 25 | At half speed , guitar tones are mutated into bass frequencies and can become dull and difficult to hear ( the main problem with the Akai U4 ) but when dealing with a digital signal , it is merely a matter of mathematics to ‘ slow ’ a signal down . |
| 26 | It is merely a first step — but a very significant one , and one without which the hypnotherapist 's task would certainly be made far more difficult . |
| 27 | Today it is merely where we live now : sprawling cities with the rich in their high-rise steel and glass ghettos , with a marginalised underclass , pathetic and dangerous , occupying the waste ground and the rotting slums . |
| 28 | For the rest , it is merely letters after the name rather than a title before it . |
| 29 | Until human beings take up roles in an enterprise , it is merely a collection of buildings and plant . |
| 30 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |