Example sentences of "[am/are] merely [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Using early maps , Peter Wade-Martins has been able to show that the present scattered settlements and small fragmentary villages are merely the remnants of former late Saxon settlements and medieval nucleated villages .
2 In the vast majority of cases they will of course on the facts be a closed link between the nature of the trade effective between members of states and the competition that is restricted by the contested clause , this is because given that the restriction flows out in the agreement the later sets the context for former , accordingly as a simply matter of fact , restrictions of competition operating relating to the same market in which trade is affected between member of states , a restriction must be appraised in the context of the market , if the parties to the agreement or the high percent market share of the market , then a relatively minor restriction assumes greatest significance , on , firstly , if the parties hold a small share of the market then what appears obstensively be a serious restriction may turn out upon an assessment of facts to be minor or relatively insignificant , contrary to the submission of the plaintiff , the restriction of competition can be determined without a assessment of market , the court of first instance have recently held that the necessement of the market has necessary pre pre-conditioned of any judgement concerning the allegedly and competitive behaviour and your Lordship was taken to that paragraph page ninety two , just siting recently the and the present case the restrictions pleaded that paragraphs forty clements and the two twenty mason were for broadly to restrict the effects upon the insurance market , however the defendants have gone one step further and also identified other markets and sub markets in which the restrictions take immediate impact , this is logical for example in relation to the standard form agency agreement the restrictions have the most direct impact from the sub market to the provision of agencies services to names , competition is effected in this market since complete harmonization of secondary terms and trades are merely the criteria available to names when choosing an agent , however , the standard form contract also effects the wine and insurance market , the fact that the agent has unvetted powers to write any insurance which he sees fit affects the categories of insurance written within this is of course is the matter about which defendant makes complaint .
3 IT IS sometimes difficult to remember that company directors are merely the custodians of their shareholders ' money , rather than the owners of the business free to do with it what they will .
4 Perhaps this is now an old-fashioned view ; but posterity can judge what is good music-making and what are merely the trends of a particular time .
5 And we are merely the precursors of generations who will harness the great life-force of electricity ! ’
6 The Committee considers that " true education " is most readily and completely available through the works of English literature , while also emphasizing its difference from mere " book learning " : " Books are not things in themselves , they are merely the instruments through which we hear the voices of those who have known life better than ourselves " .
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