Example sentences of "[pers pn] merely [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 2 | Was the reservation letter received by him merely a promise as to the future or was it a statement of present fact ? |
| 3 | The only gossip which came back to Lucien was that Amber thought him too plain in appearance to work well with Jeopardy , and considered him merely a tool that her lover was using in an attempt to provoke her . |
| 4 | Were my beliefs my own or were they merely the product of my culture , my country , my education or a legacy from my parents ? |
| 5 | Was he merely an opportunist who , having conquered these states during the war decided to exploit the situation to Russia 's advantage , or did he have some more grandiose scheme in mind ? |
| 6 | Was it merely a coincidence that the fall of Boso took place at the same time as the discovery of the Rauching plot , in which Egidius was involved ? |
| 7 | Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint ? |
| 8 | There has been much damning comment about the state of the British film industry , and much positive talk of Hollywood County Wicklow , but is it merely a case of British film-makers relocating ? |
| 9 | Nor is it merely a question of politics . |
| 10 | Nor was it merely a triumph for selfish or cynical British statesmen , indifferent to the fate of far-off peoples or calculating that Hitler might be launched into war against Soviet Russia . |
| 11 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 12 | Is it merely a remnant of the past ? |
| 13 | Is it merely a matter of reproducing party political views and , if so , of which political parties ? |
| 14 | But does the description reflect high-quality ingredients or is it merely a marketing tag ? |
| 15 | Nor is it merely the result of ‘ law and order ’ ideology , although that is one potent factor . |
| 16 | While I spoke like that I could pretend that Syl and his house were unreal and my projected presence in it merely an extension of that fantasy , but the wedding loomed ever closer like a rock and I , poor ship , was about to founder on it . |