Example sentences of "is merely [that] " in BNC.

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1 My point is merely that even if this is so , the fact remains that narrow neutrality is often all that is meant by ‘ neutrality ’ .
2 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 .
3 It is merely that there is less and less justification for her position .
4 It is merely that the choice is made to run it as a self-contained entity and the appropriate structure thus created for it .
5 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 .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Trent is not alone among regions ; it is merely that Trent does not conceal its statistics .
11 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 .
12 It is merely that they wish to question me , for I had responsibility for the food last night .
13 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 .
14 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 .
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