Example sentences of "[noun sg] is merely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also worth noting that dealing need not actually take place ; the minimum requirement is merely that the insider had reasonable cause to believe that dealing in the relevant shares would take place . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been said that I am a much improved player this season ’ , Hamilton says , ‘ but I believe that the difference is merely that I am that much more confident . |
| 3 | My point is merely that even if this is so , the fact remains that narrow neutrality is often all that is meant by ‘ neutrality ’ . |
| 4 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 5 | This arises not only from potential changes of field ( where student preferences are not guaranteed — the contractual baseline is merely that students are enabled to complete the fields upon which they originally registered ) but more significantly from the changing pattern of extra-field choice . |
| 6 | The difference between a more conventional company and an incorporated contract computer programmer/analyst is merely that the former can and does respond simultaneously to a multiplicity of orders which partly overlap and partly succeed one another . |
| 7 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |