Example sentences of "[verb] merely [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise we suspect , from the ignorance he displays in scene one of Chetwyn and his work , that his praise of Chetwyn 's university , in the next scene , is given merely to uphold the approbation maxim and thus the Politeness Principle . |
| 2 | Tired cliches like the ‘ information revolution ’ and the no longer new ‘ new technologies ’ tend merely to conceal the degree to which the production and publishing of the national newspapers and the rituals , allegiances and routine expectations of their various readerships have been reworked and transformed . |
| 3 | It is a matter of construction of the contract and the surrounding circumstances as to whether the prohibition is intended merely to place the vendor in breach of contract and exposed to a claim for damages or whether the prohibition is intended to render the assignment ineffective and make it clear that the contract is personal . |
| 4 | Most other delegates dismissed this as quite unrealistic and agreed merely to encourage the International Socialist Bureau to continue seeking opportunities for a peaceful settlement , ‘ without annexations or indemnities ’ . |
| 5 | The euphoria of that summer gripped radicals of various persuasions : some sought merely to serve the peasantry , with no clear political goal ; some hoped to lay the foundations for a conscious peasant socialist movement ; others shared the hope of the veteran anarchist , M. A. Bakunin ( 1814–76 ) , that it would be possible to ignite immediate peasant rebellion . |
| 6 | Would it seek merely to codify the existing case law or to reform on the existing case law ? |
| 7 | Moreover , once the precise mathematical form of f(U) has been unearthed by econometric testing , it is simplicity itself to arrive at an estimate of U * ; — one has merely to evaluate the root of . |
| 8 | ( That student 's essay , by the way , was graded C. ) But when the assessor is expected merely to grade the product he/she will keep such insights to him or herself . |
| 9 | If it had not been for the horrific blunder by their goalkeeper at Ibrox , Howard Wilkinson 's men would go into Battle of Britain II at Elland Road seeking merely to confirm the superiority of the English domestic game over the Scottish . |
| 10 | Time is finite and business has to be done ; abuse consists of seeking merely to occupy the time of the House to no other end than that business shall not be done . |
| 11 | They seek merely to tackle the effects of surpluses , not the causes . ’ |
| 12 | first , there is the possibility , acknowledged by several of the experimenters just cited , that subjects told merely to observe the stimuli might actually come to attach their own labels to them . |
| 13 | It was increasingly argued that unnecessary State control of personal and community affairs was wrong in principle , serving merely to weaken the capacity of the individual to enhance life chances ; arguments not heard for perhaps half a century were rehearsed . |
| 14 | Also , you may choose merely to fill the background with a solid colour ( up to 256 — 16 and 24 bit colour are not supported ) or use a graduated fill . |
| 15 | The simple grid described above is used merely to exemplify the method which , with computer analysis of the data and a use of rank ordering or numerical scaling of the judgments , is able to reach a higher level of sophistication . |
| 16 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 17 | If our oil revenues are used merely to pay the unemployed , who now cost an estimated £18,000 million each year , the burden to those in work will suddenly increase by this amount when the oil revenues cease . |
| 18 | The concept of the testator 's intention is used merely to establish the likely meaning attached by him to the words , and this is a technique applied as much in civil-law dispositions as in trusts . |
| 19 | This is not needed merely to run the factories properly — which is what foreign managers ' present jobs mainly amount to . |
| 20 | The usury paid merely to hold the conguered ground became daily more prohibitive . |
| 21 | Further suppose that he had tried Kant 's remedy of being kind to his dogs , only to discover that it served merely to fan the flames of his misanthropy . |
| 22 | In fact , it appears merely to strengthen the divide between them , by defining structural determination in terms of structures and class position in terms of practice . |
| 23 | If the document is provided merely to cover the seller , it could scarcely be regarded as fair and reasonable in most cases . |
| 24 | A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules . |
| 25 | Beside being a linguistic contortion to avoid the use of the phrase ‘ plant variety ’ , this all-embracing course of action seems merely to exacerbate the problems . |
| 26 | Unless the Paris Club , which manages official debt to Western governments , proves much more generous than its past record suggests , a considerable slice of the new money will go merely to service the old loans rather than provide fresh finance for imports and investment goods to support genuine reform . |
| 27 | In subsequent weeks , the women were asked merely to record the food and drink they consumed during binges and to note whether or not vomiting or laxative abuse had occurred . |
| 28 | One ploy would be quickly to issue orders and have goods delivered merely to fulfil the budget . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Protestants , he observed , have been too busy trying merely to understand the Bible . |
| 30 | But under current legislation most factories have merely to use the ‘ best practicable means ’ to keep noise to a minimum . |