Example sentences of "merely [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 2 | She did not deny female weakness and invalidism , merely suggesting that the physical condition of girls could be improved . |
| 3 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | So she kept her doubts to herself , merely remarking that everyone knew what Frenchmen were like and turning the whole thing into a rather laboured joke in which Iris eventually joined . |
| 8 | The House of Lords accepted that the definitions of the two offences are the same , merely adding that the prosecutor should charge manslaughter when the maximum penalty for the offence of causing death by reckless driving ( five years ) might be insufficient . |
| 9 | We leave it to the reader to follow the steps of Example ( i ) , merely noting that , in the present example , unc is unc with a null column in the first position . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The new electoral law was passed but it made no mention of the role of opposition groups , merely stating that elections would take place within the framework of socialism , thus effectively barring non-socialist candidates . |
| 12 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 13 | When Celia appeared to go from bad to worse , Brian had advertised for a housekeeper and two had come and gone in quick succession , the first merely saying that the post was not to her ‘ fancy ’ , the second giving a fuller more blatant explanation : that she did not want to work in a household where there was nervous trouble . |
| 14 | You are n't , um , merely saying that to , um , jolly us on ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'm merely saying that their interpretation of certain policies is not coincident with my own . |
| 16 | She firmly refuses to concede that she is a celebrity , merely saying that she ‘ leads two lives ’ but is essentially an ordinary Daleswoman . |
| 17 | I 'm merely saying that Gramps could not have been the father of her child ! ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although the French news media reported the Islamist victory with some alarm , a French Foreign Ministry statement of Dec. 30 was cautious in tone , merely saying that " France will remain committed to strengthening its relations with Algeria " . |
| 20 | The Supreme Court expressly declined to address the issue of notification au parquet , merely observing that whatever the negotiating history had to teach about that , it was silent on involuntary agency . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Althusser therefore criticizes the Annales historians for merely arguing that periodizations differ for different times , and that each time has its own rhythms . |
| 23 | I am merely arguing that the role in science attributed to observation statements by the inductivist is incorrect . |
| 24 | This does not mean merely showing that two parts of the descriptive apparatus march in step with one another ; the explanation here is a matter of showing that the facts in question are natural consequences of interaction between the meanings of the syntactic constructions as constructions , and the lexical meaning of the individual items that appear in them . |
| 25 | In fact , it is particularly important for any popular movement to avoid the all-too-tempting trap of merely asserting that the law is what we would like it to be . |
| 26 | Choosing the correct size is not as simple as merely ensuring that the rug fits into the appropriate space . |
| 27 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |