Example sentences of "[am/are] merely [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have , I should make clear , reread Miss Kenton 's recent letter several times , and there is no possibility I am merely imagining the presence of these hints on her part . |
| 2 | But the heroes who convey this impression are merely embodying the Apolline response to life 's horror : the attempt to make that horror acceptable . |
| 3 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 4 | But , says Pflug , the move away from mainframes in favour of distributed computing environments is forcing change — business professionals are making more and more final information technology decisions , while computing personnel are merely shaping the technical side of the project . |
| 5 | If two people are merely sharing a house or flat , e.g. two friends , unless the underwriters have been asked specifically to cover both persons ' property , there would only be cover for the property of the Policyholder . |
| 6 | Some vendors are promising that they will provide it on their own , others such as Quark are linking to specific vendors ( Scitex in this case ) while still others such as Aldus are merely providing an open interface to anyone who cares to take their files on board . |
| 7 | They are merely reproducing the same wistfulness and dreamlike melodies of their first album . |
| 8 | Some people worry that feeding the birds is somehow unnatural , but gardens are No more unnatural than much of the British landscape , and the birds which visit our gardens are merely demonstrating the natural behaviour of flocking to exploit the sudden abundance of a source of food , whether it 's a heavy infestation of caterpillars or seeds and nuts put out on the lawn . |
| 9 | This is another skewed reality , of course , for in their pursuit of the ‘ prig ’ they are merely following a version of justice which depends on blind acquiescence to establishment values of honesty . |
| 10 | What right have I to criticise so strongly ivory traders in China who are merely making a living , while I am sitting here killing unsuspecting animals for no reason at all ? |
| 11 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 12 | But DO N'T send him any money — as Active are merely distributing the goods not flogging 'em to Jo Public . |
| 13 | If you have existing furniture and are merely re-doing a room , you will almost certainly know what you want to keep and what to replace — or re-upholster , re-cover , re-finish or re-paint . |
| 14 | ‘ The third point that we are merely exploiting the punter is unfair . |
| 15 | I 'm merely casting a beady eye on it . |
| 16 | I 'm not forcing her , I 'm merely making a business proposition . |