Example sentences of "is [adv] merely [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 2 | Commodore 's product is actually available while CD-I is still merely a promise . |
| 3 | This was endowed by the executors of the late John Benjamin Smith , Member of Parliament for Stockport between 1852 and 1874 , and is still awarded annually , though it is now merely a prize . |
| 4 | This is now merely a set of narrow winding lanes , cut at its north end by a second world war air field . |
| 5 | The problem in discussing consumption is that our ‘ common sense ’ understanding of the phenomenon is often merely a reflection of the ordering of the processes we see around us . |
| 6 | Q : But this Darcy 's Utopia of yours , this paradise , is surely merely a dream . |
| 7 | But justification is never merely a doctrine . |
| 8 | The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down . |
| 9 | Yesterday 's quiet day is therefore merely the prelude to a forthcoming hockey explosion ! |