Example sentences of "[be] merely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 2 | The pretence that his , Surkov 's , opening had been merely a dream was a pathetic cliché . |
| 3 | However , all serious historians have noted that the 1925 decisions had been merely a formality , more honoured in the breach than in their application . |
| 4 | He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism . |
| 5 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 6 | The disruptions caused by newcomers have been merely a tangible symptom of this change . |
| 7 | Until this point , the structure of government outside Whitehall had been merely a matter which worried civil servants who wished to see their departmental policies executed more rapidly and efficiently , though some Liberals , some academics and sections of the ‘ quality press ’ had shown a passing interest in the subject . |
| 8 | Cetera was subsequently cleared ( only to die later in mysterious circumstances ) but the real worry , for the DIA , was that the Italian court also found that the drug trafficking had been merely a cover , to justify payments to the Kabbaras as DEA informants . |
| 9 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 10 | Or had her initial fears been merely a result of the disorder of mind induced by her very apparent hunger ? |
| 11 | This motivated dealers more than a previously introduced incentive to sell PEPS which had been merely an increase in dealers ' OTC takeback allowance . |
| 12 | I am merely a dyke-hag . |
| 13 | I am merely an ordinary man . |
| 14 | One approach to debunking the distinctiveness of the Thatcher record is to argue that the post-1979 policies are merely a continuation of earlier trends , for example , of the early economic policies of Mr Heath 's 1970 government or of the acceptance of monetary targets and abandonment of Keynesianism under the Callaghan — Healey regime in 1976 . |
| 15 | You are merely a little anxious — perhaps you have a problem on your mind , some emotional conflict ? |
| 16 | From this viewpoint , gametes and the genes they carry are merely a device whereby organisms produce offspring like themselves . |
| 17 | I would not have you think that we are merely a national soup-kitchen society ! ’ |
| 18 | You could be an intruder , an interloper , but with only the sound of your bubbles escaping and wobbling upwards , you are merely a privileged observer , watching but not touching . |
| 19 | The appearance of the countryside — uplands included — has always been changing and the Farming Unions , in particular , make great play of this suggesting that the losses of rough grassland and moorland in recent years are merely a part of continual agricultural change . |
| 20 | There are many different causes of uncertainty and those which are explicitly due to GIS-based manipulations of geographic information are merely a more recent problem . |
| 21 | This chapter suggests that the stars are merely a ‘ stageprop ’ for contacting the cosmic force , which the Bible describes as an evil spirit . |
| 22 | Milligan says his crazily abstract poems , such as Bald Twit Lion , are merely a 20thcentury equivalent of Egyptian hieroglyphics showing cats and other animals dancing . |
| 23 | Decisions of either the Council of Ministers or the European Commission are merely a means of enunciating policies or initiating actions . |
| 24 | The third and final stage involves the claim that relational properties are merely a special class of qualitative properties of a single substance . |
| 25 | However , if you are merely a dabbler in the drawings game then having access to the full US Geological Survey topographic patterns , architectural and other standards may well be of little significance . |
| 26 | A few weeks of residential treatment are merely a scratch on the surface of the disease — but it is a deep scratch and it may help many more sufferers into recovery than might otherwise be successful through depending upon the AnonymouS Fellowships alone . |
| 27 | This has met with considerable resistance from the staff who have pointed out that the smoking restrictions at Chesser House are merely a voluntary agreement and are not Council policy in the same way as restrictions at Regional Headquarters and Regional Chambers . |
| 28 | You are merely a woman who pretends to be fierce and , after all , you have been manoeuvred by men in spite of your supposed ability to take on all comers . |
| 29 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 30 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |