Example sentences of "[conj] [be] merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real solution is to train pilots to accept responsibility , whether they are sitting in the aircraft or are merely bystanders at the launch point . |
| 2 | But it is not clear if the latter records indicate passage or are merely wide-scale wanderings by birds with no permanent winter site . |
| 3 | Whether your students are planning to attend holiday courses in Britain , or are merely curious about the lifestyle , customs , and civilization of the British , When in Britain is designed to encourage them to think about not only the British way of life , but also about their own . |
| 4 | If there are major disagreements as to concepts ( eg as to whether the warranties are to be very detailed or are merely trying to catch material items ) it may be necessary to have a meeting of the principals to resolve the concepts against which the agreement is to be negotiated . |
| 5 | The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil , although whether it has a long-term future in this rôle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear . |
| 6 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 7 | Fact is frequently mixed with opinion and it is sometimes difficult to establish whether certain evidence is accepted or is merely being discussed . |
| 8 | Other rates may apply where the development is acquired second hand , or is merely a refurbishment of an existing industrial building . |
| 9 | It is also often unclear whether it is being claimed that the bureaucracy is truly multifunctional or is merely recruiting and socializing its own members , articulating their interests , or acting as ‘ one of the main channels of political struggle in which and through which different interests are regulated and aggregated ’ ( Eisenstadt 1963 , p. 112 ) . |
| 10 | Ant colonies often entertain a variety of parasitic arthropods such as beetles and mites , and some that are merely commensal ; that is they merely co-habit with the ants , and thereby perhaps gain protection , or scavenge for scrap food , but do no obvious harm . |
| 11 | The concept of ideology here signifies the collection of ideas that are merely the product of thought and that have no material basis . |
| 12 | In other words , how do you distinguish between those changes in neural activity that reflect the coding of information in the brain and those that are merely signs of activity with no functional significance ? |
| 13 | How else would I be able to think of states of affairs that are merely possible ? |
| 14 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 15 | In a year without a presidential contest , in elections that were merely primaries — and mainly for local offices — around 45% of registered voters turned out on March 20th . |
| 16 | Galileo was attracted by the implicit contrast between physical propositions that were demonstrated and those that were merely affirmed . |
| 17 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 18 | Abuses that do occasionally come to light are wrongly sensationalized as being common place rather than being merely one off incidents . |
| 19 | By combining these activities , you 'll spend more of your life being a person than being merely a linguist , physicist or economist . |
| 20 | For the Commission did not accept ( nor , it must be said , did it appear directly to address ) the proposition that tax diversion is a necessary manifestation of a person 's political beliefs , as opposed to a practice that is merely consistent with , and motivated by such a belief . |
| 21 | There was no room for the trick that was merely ‘ showy ’ . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 23 | These early letters to Helen are now lost and are merely reflected in her long replies from Margate and Rotherfield . |
| 24 | So they have plenty of time to grow to a respectable size and are merely carried passively up to the surface with the rest of the magma when it is erupted , and are distributed uniformly throughout it . |
| 25 | In fact , he believes that many of our ingenious musicians still have their aural-receptors pointed outwards and are merely trying to slavishly mimic what comes from England on the U.S. |
| 26 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 27 | If you have existing furniture and are merely re-doing a room , you will almost certainly know what you want to keep and what to replace — or re-upholster , re-cover , re-finish or re-paint . |
| 28 | ( iii ) An easement , right or privilege affecting land and being merely an equitable interest ( an " equitable easement " ) . |
| 29 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 30 | The communicator who has not interacted with the material and is merely passing on what he or she has read or been told functions as a tertiary source . |