Example sentences of "[am/are] merely [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am merely an ordinary man . |
| 2 | You could be an intruder , an interloper , but with only the sound of your bubbles escaping and wobbling upwards , you are merely a privileged observer , watching but not touching . |
| 3 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 4 | This has met with considerable resistance from the staff who have pointed out that the smoking restrictions at Chesser House are merely a voluntary agreement and are not Council policy in the same way as restrictions at Regional Headquarters and Regional Chambers . |
| 5 | I would not have you think that we are merely a national soup-kitchen society ! ’ |
| 6 | The third and final stage involves the claim that relational properties are merely a special class of qualitative properties of a single substance . |
| 7 | What is visible are merely the rough foundation stones . |
| 8 | Healings , exorcisms , tongues , prophecy are merely the spectacular tip of the iceberg , the heart of which is a living , loving , believing Christian fellowship . |
| 9 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |
| 10 | These are merely an essential introduction . |
| 11 | Truffles are merely an expensive and tasty seasoning ; but morels are more substantial , to be relished intact , whole and good . |
| 12 | Wedding bells are merely an incidental punctuation in a life which will already be committed to career , aerobic class and the occasional night with the lasses . |
| 13 | Avoid situations where you are merely an added attraction or gimmick ! |
| 14 | Networks are merely an enabling technology , and the applications that run on them little more than means to an end : information . |