Example sentences of "[is] merely a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's merely a question of altering your foundation to match your skin colour . |
| 2 | The industry will be standing by gauging the heartiness of their handshakes and the sincerity of their smiles trying to decide whether the hatchet really is being buried or whether it 's merely a Christmas truce . |
| 3 | It 's merely a larger er larger plan showing how the settlement sits er within the surrounding field network and field pattern . |
| 4 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 5 | through that 's merely a minor check ) until |
| 6 | but I mean you send the package out and you get a phone call er it 's Mr Davies , and then you get card out and then you send him the questionnaire it 's merely a record duplicated on the form but |
| 7 | that 's merely an over-view . |
| 8 | The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims , crotchets and quavers there are in a bar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The most reactionary government this century ’ is merely a mild form of left-wing rhetoric . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Spoil-sports maintain that IR is merely a new name for what companies have been muddling along at anyway : arranging meetings between management and institutions , co-ordinating the annual general meeting , and producing the annual report . |
| 14 | Mr Barzani says the fall of Saddam Hussein is merely a matter of time . |
| 15 | This is merely a subjective attempt to externalise your own feelings . |
| 16 | Even curry powder is merely a base , relying on ground coriander and ground cumin for its essential character and then turned this or that way , sometimes by roasting , more usually by the addition of other spices , fresh herbs , aromatic vegetables and so on . |
| 17 | Some mixtures of garam masala available commercially include cumin and coriander , but this is merely a cynical way to reduce the cost . |
| 18 | Today Labour talks of investment to pull Britain out of recession , but its investment is merely a euphemism for public spending on an unprecedented scale . |
| 19 | This is merely a random selection to demonstrate the encyclopaedic nature of the work . |
| 20 | German federalism is merely a cloak thrown over the relatively strong regionalism Which persists in Germany , and it was a system adopted by Germany , with the Allies ' approval , after the war as a way of preventing a return of totalitarianism , which is why the Germans associate federalism with the opposite of centralised power . |
| 21 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 22 | It is now common in most accounts to begin with the proviso that the designation ‘ nouveau roman ’ is merely a convenient quasi-journalistic or even marketing label attached to an otherwise heterogeneous collection of writers , sharing little other than the same publishing house at one time or another ( Editions de Minuit ) . |
| 23 | I am referring , after all , to a series of very minor errors on my part and the course I am now pursuing is merely a means of pre-empting any ‘ problems ’ before one arises . |
| 24 | What rush hour exists is merely a breeze of bicycles . |
| 25 | The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil , although whether it has a long-term future in this rôle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear . |
| 26 | It is merely a case of conditioning and adaptability . |
| 27 | Finally , the therapist can not take all the credit for his or her successes ; the healer is merely a catalyst in the process . |
| 28 | This chapter is not itself concerned with the mechanics or politics of the matter , the example chosen is merely a convenient one for purposes of illustrating a very common GIS procedure . |
| 29 | In our consideration of the interview for scientific enquiry we must always remind ourselves that the survey is merely a particular tool for collecting information which is deemed relevant for the testing of a hypothesis which stems from theory . |
| 30 | In this case , is merely a coordinate singularity . |