Example sentences of "be [adv] merely [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not merely that ‘ state capitalist trusts ’ compete on the world market , but that their creation has brought about a new and different model of production relations . |
| 2 | It is not merely that classics are ambiguous ; it is also that ambiguous texts are more available for the debate which elevates literature to classic status . |
| 3 | It is not merely that Mansell is Britain 's leading driver — no other Briton has won a Grand Prix for nine years — but that he is someone fans can identify with . |
| 4 | It is not merely that the speaker wants to create a good impression in the sight of others , who might have a different set of values . |
| 5 | It is not merely that the incidence of single-parent black families has been exaggerated ( Phoenix , 1988 ) , but that class , gender and racism intersect in highly complex and contradictory ways in the lives of black women ( Anthias and Yuval-Davis , 1982 ; Phizacklea , 1983 ; Ramazanoglu , 1989 ; West wood , 1985 ; West wood and Bhachu , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 7 | The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits . |
| 8 | For the idea put forward is not merely that " pluralistically committed " relational properties are not as basic as qualitative properties , but that all properties and relations can in the end be assimilated to qualitative properties of one sort or another . |
| 9 | It is not merely that they are not just another class of public phenomena ; it is through nothing but experiences themselves that such phenomena become objects for us . |
| 10 | Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles . |
| 11 | The reason why I take such a strong line on the set-aside scheme is not merely that it is right so to do . |
| 12 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 13 | As Duncan illustrates in a brief discussion of the development of temperature scales , it is not merely that in science measurement becomes more precise and reliable in the move to a new type of scale , say a shift from the nominal categories " hot " and " cold " to degrees of heat to the Fahrenheit , Celsius and , lastly , the Kelvin scale , but that the theoretical basis also shifts . |
| 14 | Madam Speaker I r the er honourable gentleman must have a rather er curious source for his statistics because what has actually happened is not merely that the government have protected the real value of the state retirement pension but the combination of our policies both in social security , in the pensions field and in the economic world have led to a position in which pensioners average real incomes have risen more than forty percent since this government took office . |
| 15 | It was not merely that many people were dismayed by Labour 's tax plans : they also felt a wider and deeper sense of mistrust , that Labour 's numbers on revenue and spending simply did not add up . |
| 16 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 17 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 18 | It was n't merely that he had lost stones in weight — dash it , the man 's sobriquet was a libel now — but that his whole demeanour was that of a soldier completely confused , completely disorientated . |