Example sentences of "[am/are] merely [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am merely a dyke-hag . |
| 2 | ‘ I am merely the messenger . |
| 3 | One approach to debunking the distinctiveness of the Thatcher record is to argue that the post-1979 policies are merely a continuation of earlier trends , for example , of the early economic policies of Mr Heath 's 1970 government or of the acceptance of monetary targets and abandonment of Keynesianism under the Callaghan — Healey regime in 1976 . |
| 4 | Many of the proposed measures are merely a continuation of existing developments aimed at fostering worker mobility within the Community , enhancing training provision and establishing common health and safety requirements . |
| 5 | The appearance of the countryside — uplands included — has always been changing and the Farming Unions , in particular , make great play of this suggesting that the losses of rough grassland and moorland in recent years are merely a part of continual agricultural change . |
| 6 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 7 | A few weeks of residential treatment are merely a scratch on the surface of the disease — but it is a deep scratch and it may help many more sufferers into recovery than might otherwise be successful through depending upon the AnonymouS Fellowships alone . |
| 8 | The systematic answers reveal that love is essentially in the inner heart of man not in works , which are merely a sign of love , though it is true that " luf wil noght be ydel : it es wirkand som gude evermare " ( 111.96 – 7 ) . |
| 9 | Decisions of either the Council of Ministers or the European Commission are merely a means of enunciating policies or initiating actions . |
| 10 | This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 11 | From this viewpoint , gametes and the genes they carry are merely a device whereby organisms produce offspring like themselves . |
| 12 | You are merely a woman who pretends to be fierce and , after all , you have been manoeuvred by men in spite of your supposed ability to take on all comers . |
| 13 | Glasgow 's problems are merely a symptom of a wider malaise which has produced a 69 per cent rise in murders across most of the country and a 30 per cent increase in attempted murders . |
| 14 | However , if you are merely a dabbler in the drawings game then having access to the full US Geological Survey topographic patterns , architectural and other standards may well be of little significance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The evidence shows that these incidents reported in the media are merely the tip of the iceberg ; for many black people in Britain , physical assault or violent verbal expressions of racial hatred are part of their daily life . |
| 18 | Schemes for ‘ set-aside ’ are merely the tip of the iceberg . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And we are merely the precursors of generations who will harness the great life-force of electricity ! ’ |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | The rod-bending bites are merely the start of a run , and it is this first powerful run , which began as soon as the barbel picked up the baited hook and gained momentum within seconds , that is the crucial time for losing fish . |
| 24 | Maybe our present troubles are merely the consequence of all those years of peace . ’ |
| 25 | It is further evidence that its policies are merely the result of what its paymasters , the trade unions , say . |
| 26 | In this context , the current postwar peace proposals now being advanced in Western capitals are merely the icing on the global security cake . |
| 27 | This passage illustrates in a vivid way the fact that the arrangements the judges have made with the Inns are merely the machinery through which the judges perform what remains a judicial duty , and also how decisions on rights of audience are different from decisions on call to the Bar . |
| 28 | The three Which Mortgage awards are merely the culmination in a long list of achievements in Abbey National 's impressive history . |
| 29 | Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ? |
| 30 | Sometimes differences in terminology are merely the use of different words for the same or similar groups ( such a ‘ West Indian ’ and ‘ Afro-Caribbean ’ ) ; at other times , different sets of terms refer to different classifications and different ways of classifying . |