Example sentences of "[pers pn] be merely [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's merely that if there 's more than 50 of them feeling it simultaneously on the same summit then I 'd rather be somewhere else . |
| 2 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 3 | This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight . |
| 4 | It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position . |
| 5 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 6 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
| 7 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 8 | It is merely that after the Glorious Revolution this element within Tory ideology became increasingly dominant , gradually supplanting the more absolutist tendency within Tory political thought . |
| 9 | It was merely that she had learned from her life with him that , like many married women , she did n't really need a husband . |
| 10 | It was merely that the procedure had gone wrong . |
| 11 | It was merely that he never wanted in a tournament round to risk anything which might upset his endlessly repetitive ritual and rhythm . |