Example sentences of "be merely that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic requirements of the rule of law , therefore , are merely that a system of law , understood as lex , exists as a result of the establishment of legislative , executive and judicial offices . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My point is merely that even if this is so , the fact remains that narrow neutrality is often all that is meant by ‘ neutrality ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position . |
| 7 | It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it . |
| 8 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was merely that the procedure had gone wrong . |
| 20 | It was merely that he never wanted in a tournament round to risk anything which might upset his endlessly repetitive ritual and rhythm . |