Example sentences of "is merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | In making this comment , one is merely pointing out particular ideological characteristics in hard-working , deeply religious , and committed people . |
| 2 | Usually , however , the social move is merely in the form of a transfer within well-developed sections of police society where the new experience is structured by the same ideology and beliefs which have gone before . |
| 3 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 4 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 5 | The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims , crotchets and quavers there are in a bar . |
| 6 | Paul de Man is reported to have said that a literary work is merely an event in the history of interpretation . |
| 7 | At27/129 , we hear of ‘ the earthquake in Messina ’ ( 28 December 1908 ) , but this is merely incidental to the vast blague perpetrated by Romains , Vildrac , and others in Paris — to be nostalgically remembered years later in the Pisan Canto 80 ( see Richard Sieburth in Paideuma 2 , p.280 ) . |
| 8 | What we seek is merely evidence that Pound did n't go to Sicily with a closed mind . |
| 9 | Viewed from one angle , a current account deficit is merely the necessary counterpart of a capital account surplus , and it is from this point that Nigel Lawson 's defensive intellectual outworks run . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment . |
| 11 | While the rest of Wales quakes in anticipation of next week 's invasion by the world champions , Price is merely looking forward to another tussle with the ultimate rugby enemy . |
| 12 | It is merely the football programme . ) |
| 13 | Brittain categorically denies that he is merely ‘ having a go ’ when he flies in the face of the form book . |
| 14 | He is merely stopping over en route from the Republic to Italy , where he plays rugby for Rovigo . |
| 15 | The current excavation at the Globe is merely to assess the site 's archaeological potential . |
| 16 | Management has no business to accept any such responsibility ; or rather , since ‘ management ’ is merely a collective abstract expression , managements have no business to accept any such responsibility . |
| 17 | I suggest — this is merely an illustrative explanation — that we are here dealing with a cyclical phenomenon . |
| 18 | Thus while Wilde is merely ‘ a parasite , an excrescence , an aberration , ( p. 78 ) , those allegedly most susceptible to his perversion are quite otherwise : the family in general , young men at university , sometimes even their tutors , boys at public school , maidens , and novelists ( p. 133 ) . |
| 19 | Whereas ‘ the true self , in sex , would seek a meeting , would seek to meet the other ’ , this being the ‘ true flow ’ , sexuality today is merely greedy , blind , selfseeking , and ‘ therefore , since the thing sought is the same , the self , the mode of seeking is not very important . |
| 20 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |
| 21 | But perhaps this celebration of the exotic cultural/racial other is merely the counterpart of the racist 's demonizing of the other ? |
| 22 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The most reactionary government this century ’ is merely a mild form of left-wing rhetoric . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |
| 26 | Like the G40 , it impresses with its throttle response and low-rev urge , but while the supercharged car is merely annoyingly noisy at speed , the GT brings a headache . |
| 27 | Fibre/resin composite is used for the skins , which confer most of the sandwich 's rigidity ; the core is merely a light but compressively stiff intermediary that keeps the two skins apart . |
| 28 | It is not reasonable to suggest that hooliganism is merely inflated by the press and best treated by ‘ radical non-intervention ’ . |
| 29 | This clip fixing of slipped slates is merely an expedient which can not forever put off the day when the permanent refixing or renewal of the entire roof covering is necessary . |
| 30 | The C&G claims the cash distribution is merely designed to bring the reserves of the two societies in line . |