Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] merely [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My standard of tennis is at that level where merely returning a serve constitutes a match highlight . |
| 2 | The introduction of new partners involves similar problems whether they arrive as part of an expansionary exercise or merely to replace a partner who has died or retired from the firm . |
| 3 | I think it 's easy to be glib about this , there are clearly an awful lot of landlords and landladies around who provide an excellent service and merely want a reasonable rent in return for offering a decent service . |
| 4 | A refinement was therefore suggested , namely that he should keep his first wife and merely add a second . |
| 5 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 6 | This seems particularly objectionable when pleasures and pains prevented come into account , for one may well think it worse in an action to produce pain than merely to hinder a corresponding amount of pleasure occurring . |
| 7 | Bush and Gorbachev merely represent the forces which brought them to office and merely pursue an agenda so predetermined that its outcome could have been predicted in advance . |