Example sentences of "be [vb pp] merely as " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many can be regarded merely as affecting the objects in which the estate is now held to consist ( this is what the words permutatum dominium convey ) ? |
| 2 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 3 | At its lowest level , the beakers could be seen merely as souvenirs bought at the markets , which sprang up round the arenas and race-tracks at festival times . |
| 4 | From this perspective , in imposing negligence liability the court can be seen merely as upholding private rights , and that is hardly an ‘ intrusion ’ . |
| 5 | That is to say , we shall recognise sense-units along a sense-spectrum — to be called local senses — by their participation in distinct lexical fields ( here , to be understood merely as sets of lexical items interrelated by determinate meaning relations such as oppositeness , hyponymy , part-whole , etc . ) . |
| 6 | Civil Society is not then to be viewed merely as the world of individual needs , but rather … as sets of structured , institutionalized social practices . |
| 7 | In animals , X would have to be genetically specified , although it might be specified merely as being different , in any way , from other members of the species . |