Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] merely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choreographers who are inspired to interpret music can do so in many ways , all of which can be successful , but only if they remember that its overall rhythm is not merely a mechanical guide to the timing of the steps within the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 2 | And then there is the risk of failure , which inflates the damages on the basis that the defendant is not merely a defamer , but a defamer who has persisted in the injury to the last . |
| 3 | The frog 's leap is not merely a way of getting from one point on the ground to another . |
| 4 | Law is not merely a matter of the rules which govern relations between private individuals … |
| 5 | The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down . |
| 6 | This definition stresses that readability is not merely a matter of legibility but also depends upon factors affecting comprehension and motivation . |
| 7 | The appropriate analogy for the structural weakness of sociology in this respect is the social reality sociologists study : sexism is not merely a question of institutional discrimination against women , but the schema of underlying values is also implicated . |
| 8 | For Simmel , contradiction is not merely an instrument for , but an intrinsic condition of , the dynamic force of history . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend and the House will be aware that our contribution and support for the secretary-general is not merely a matter of words . |
| 10 | In the political and military conflicts which have arisen as a result of these inequalities , education is not merely a casualty of war but is part of the battlefield . |
| 11 | He points out that a complex whole which contains principal and secondary contradictions will also contain relations of domination and subordination ( since the factors forming the principal contradiction will dominate those forming the subordinate contradiction ) , and argues that the presence of these characteristics in a complex whole is not merely a contingent matter , but a necessary one . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Service of the demand is not merely a procedural requirement but an essential ingredient in the cause of action . |
| 13 | This latest exhibition is not merely an update of the one many will remember visiting at the Royal Academy in 1979 , but a transformation . |
| 14 | ‘ Team nursing is not merely a method of assigning individuals to a group : rather it is an implementation of the philosophy that holds that a group of people led by a knowledgeable nurse can effectively meet the nursing needs of a group of patients . |
| 15 | This shows that the punch is not merely an arm movement , but a powerful , co-ordinated body action . |
| 16 | This holiness is not merely a devotion to the deity ( there was plenty of such attachment in the ancient world that was far from holy — for instance the cult prostitution that was so common in the temples ) , nor a mere adherence to ethical rules ( there were plenty of those current in antiquity , too , and they possessed all the disadvantages , while lacking the advantages , of the Jewish law ) . |
| 17 | We also begin to realize that making such a choice is not merely a matter of changing habits , even habits of mind . |
| 18 | Current evidence indicates that matrix is not merely a simple scaffolding but a dynamic modulator of cell phenotype and behaviour . |
| 19 | One has to acknowledge that homelessness is not merely a housing problem but is also a social problem , which requires not merely money but an approach to discourage and prevent young people from becoming homeless . |
| 20 | Such an interpretation is not merely a case of reading some preferred assumption into the silence on the subject of the Miller 's relationship with the Reeve that descends after the Reeve has finished his tale . |
| 21 | … the centralization of local government is not merely an issue of macroeconomic and financial policy . |
| 22 | It is then possible show that the hypersurface is not merely a coordinate singularity , but is actually a singularity of space-time in the sense that there does not exist a C 1 extension from region II to this surface . |
| 23 | But justification is never merely a doctrine . |
| 24 | This means that in particular colonial discourse analysis is not merely a marginal adjunct to more mainstream studies , a specialized activity only for minorities or for historians of imperialism and colonialism , but itself forms the point of questioning of Western knowledge 's categories and assumptions . |
| 25 | The answer is not merely a description of the event but a description of the relationship of signifying elements presented with their decoded meaning , thus : |
| 26 | As Box and Hale ( 1982,1985,1986 ) have argued , this response is not merely a mechanical response due to the increased workload but is due to a sufficiently large proportion of judges and magistrates responding to deteriorating economic conditions by resorting more frequently to the use of imprisonment . |
| 27 | erm A very quick example would be the famous sentence in which Marcel , the narrator , says , ‘ An hour is not merely an hour . |
| 28 | A reprimand is not merely an empty phrase . |
| 29 | This difference in description is not merely a stylistic quibble . |
| 30 | Similarly , seventeenth-century literary history is not merely a progress of lyric development from Donne to Marvell . |