Example sentences of "[conj] merely a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impact attitudes can vary from a skimming ground contact with a wreckage trail up to one kilometre long , such as the Turkish DC-10 near Paris , or merely a deep crater with pieces of wreckage scattered in every direction round it , as when a BEA Vanguard crashed vertically into the ground in Belgium in October 1971 . |
| 2 | For advice or guidance on any aspect of student life , or merely a friendly chat , you are invited to contact Student Services . |
| 3 | For advice or guidance on any aspect of student life , or merely a friendly chat , you are invited to contact Student Services . |
| 4 | A daring and devious regicide or merely a clumsy archer ? |
| 5 | As to whether a preserved aquarium is required , or merely a preserved fish , the text is unclear . |
| 6 | In these studies , in common with many others , it has not been possible to discover if the change was a primary defect or merely a secondary effect of the disease process . |
| 7 | Although regular guest speakers are being organised , it is hoped to encourage contributions from within our own membership , be it a whole evening 's entertainment or merely a ten-minute talk or slide-presentation . |
| 8 | The question of individualism raises the issue of whether we are dealing with a ‘ new racism ’ or merely an updated version of the old ‘ race and empire ’ story . |
| 9 | Is such resistance a legalized rebellion or merely an extralegal revolution ? |
| 10 | IT 'S NEVER EASY to tell , when something seems to be happening more and more , whether there is a genuine trend or merely an excessive zeal of reporting . |
| 11 | Should the fault standard require D 's actual awareness , or merely an objective probability of danger ? |
| 12 | For teachers it can , however , sometimes seem like an administrative chore or merely an unwelcome interruption of the timetable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is that we might , in other than merely a logical sense , have got yesterday but not last night . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | [ The alternative ] means more than merely a different way of ‘ doing social science ’ . |
| 18 | The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role . |
| 19 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | More narrowly , but still at a high level of generality , some variables may function as identity markers for whole status groups or for larger regions than merely an inner-city community . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although there still exists the notion that administration should be or is apolitical and merely a neutral tool of the government , this is palpably not so in practically all states , industrialised or less developed or ‘ socialist ’ . |
| 24 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 25 | To the Church he was not a convert at all , but merely a lapsed Catholic who had returned to the practice of his Faith . |
| 26 | For benefiting others need not be an overriding principle , but merely a competing principle as to the proper theory of justice . |
| 27 | Up until 1880 it was a typical Nortolk village with no real centre but merely a dispersed pattern of cottages and farmsteads . |
| 28 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 29 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 30 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |