Example sentences of "merely [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 2 | Unlike most other diets , it does n't suggest that you should eat less , merely that you should eat less fat . |
| 3 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 4 | To say merely that ‘ things are different now ’ is hardly any consolation for the pain and bitterness of past experience and bears little assurance of a future political and military stability in Europe . |
| 5 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 6 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 7 | The implication is that , to solve some kinds of problem , an animal must know that something is the case , and not merely that a given action or sequence of actions has in the past been reinforced . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not that it carries the equivalent of flab — merely that it needs extra strength because of its different combustion process operating under compression ratios twice that of petrol engines . |
| 10 | The dependence thesis does not claim that authorities always act for dependent reasons , but merely that they should do so . |
| 11 | My point is merely that even if this is so , the fact remains that narrow neutrality is often all that is meant by ‘ neutrality ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 14 | He turned on his considerable persuasive powers to convince the player not merely that the full-back position was right for him but that he would be the best full-back in the country . |
| 15 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Trusts were ideally suited for such treatment since they did not presuppose that certain words had been used by the testator , but merely that a certain intention had been manifested . |
| 18 | It means merely that where the trustee was in possession of the property under trust , he could be ordered to make it over . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I am not suggesting that one should even form an interpretative overview , merely that details of notation , phrasing and articulation , tempo , dynamics and so on are considered alongside balance , texture , and even acoustical implications . |
| 21 | I would n't describe Rattle 's treatment as in any way unfeeling , merely that the various strands are shaped and honed with an unusual sensitivity to detail but at a relatively low emotional temperature . |
| 22 | It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position . |
| 23 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
| 24 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 25 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 26 | It argues merely that whilst Parliament could pass such laws , it would be unlikely or unpurposeful for it to do so . |
| 27 | So I was quite pleased , at the end of my United Airlines flight to Chicago , to discover merely that one of my two bags was missing . |
| 28 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 29 | The first point does not establish that people are spontaneously more inclined to conflict than to co-operation , merely that the latter tendency does not prevail absolutely . |
| 30 | Conversely , to say ‘ It hurts ’ conveys the information , not merely that I spontaneously flinch from the sensation , but that I am sharply aware of it . |