Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] merely [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 2 | Their plausibility requires that the disinclination to be cruel to animals is a mark of true humanity ; part of its content , rather than merely a possible cause of it . |
| 3 | Furthermore by taking an ideological rather than merely a dispositive approach he is able to lay down principles for the reconstruction of societas in the modern age . |
| 4 | As a result of Nicaea , Rome became the official centre of Christian orthodoxy , and any deviation from that orthodoxy became a heresy , rather than merely a difference of opinion or interpretation . |
| 5 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 6 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 7 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |
| 8 | The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role . |
| 9 | Borrowers are increasingly ready to deal with several firms rather than merely a " house " bank . |
| 10 | Those arguing for more fundamental change , tackling the causes rather than merely the symptoms of social distress , utilize categories embracing wider sections of society , extending from the still limited concept of the ‘ bottom third ’ to wider notions of the ‘ public ’ and ‘ citizens ’ . |
| 11 | Start with some life goals rather than merely the more prosaic work ones . |
| 12 | It focuses on systems , such as the family , considering them to be an entity , a whole , rather than merely the result of a number of contributions from independent parts or individuals . |
| 13 | Then look at the five-day exercise on the senses : this has enabled you to start writing with the knowledge you derive from your whole body , rather than merely the abstract , visual knowledge you adduce through your eyes . |
| 14 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 15 | It is a Romantic version of modernism which is viewed as genuinely progressive and critical , rather than merely the means by which capitalism destroyed any tradition which might have opposed its hegemony . |
| 16 | One possibility is that this measure too responds , at least in part , to the reflectance , rather than merely the area . |
| 17 | The vendor will seek to refer to all excess provisions rather than merely the one that relates to the items under dispute . |
| 18 | The second feature of bureaucracy which has enlarged its area of political influence over the choices to be made among values , priorities and objectives , rather than merely the technical means to be employed , is the discretionary power of officials . |
| 19 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 20 | Whatever choice you make stylistically , you need to maintain a register consistently , so that ( even though the register is selected and constructed ) it appears plausible as a " genuine " voice rather than merely an unstable , contrived style . |
| 21 | It 's what they call in governmental circles , an IDIQ or Indefinite Delivery , Indefinite Quantity contract , described elsewhere as merely a ‘ hunting licence . ’ |
| 22 | However , the existence of a discretion in the judge to exclude legally admissible evidence , so as to secure the fairness of the trial , was recognised as extending further than merely the exclusion of evidence more prejudicial than probative . |
| 23 | The monarch is , furthermore , more than merely a part of Parliament under the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ? |