Example sentences of "merely [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
| 2 | Their shadow images , like our own lives , are seen as merely the surface reflection of an unseen fabric of energy which majestically moves beyond time . |
| 3 | The soft glow of the Enlightenment was merely the surface heat of a great fire that exploded in the volcanic fury of the French Revolution . |
| 4 | This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card . |
| 5 | It is merely the football programme . ) |
| 6 | Rather than being the means of communication within business , the file became merely the resting place for papers circulated separately . |
| 7 | We are proposing , along with Cotte , that let evokes much more than merely the speech act of giving permission : it signifies giving an event access to existence , permitting something by not intervening to obstruct its being accomplished . |
| 8 | This latter approach , unlike the previous one , depends on all individuals actually owning some property , and not merely the background existence of private property as an institution . |
| 9 | It rang with pride and passion , the intensity of the emotion heightening the slightly exotic aspect of her peculiar beauty which was in reality merely the end sum of a wonderfully mixed ancestry of ordinary Celts , Latins and Anglo-Saxons . |
| 10 | 3 In an earlier article , ‘ The Dematerialisation of Art ’ which she wrote with John Chandler in 1968 , she had also stressed : ‘ As more and more work is designed in the studio , but executed elsewhere by professional craftsmen , as the object becomes merely the end product , a number of artists are losing interest in the physical evolution of the work of art ’ . |
| 11 | The plan is not a blueprint for the future , it stresses , merely the starting signal for a process in which dialogue and choices made by individuals , private industry and government will shape the environmental programmes : ‘ What we want to do , in the realization that we do not understand all the relationships , is to indicate the conditions under which an environmental quality can be attained that will provide future generations with as many options as possible . ’ |
| 12 | This subjective appreciation of the work of Nizan is merely the starting point of analysis , however . |
| 13 | In industry as opposed to merely the farming industry the range of facilities offered by the Welsh Development Agency , provided by way of regional selective assistance , makes Wales an attractive place in which to invest . |
| 14 | Lord Callaghan , when he was Prime Minister , made the point that he was not necessarily going to be merely the post box in the system . |
| 15 | It is not , and can not be , merely a managerialist alternative to the Conservatives . |
| 16 | Examples of this category are black — in blackbird , blue in blue-tit , and red in red wine ( it must not be thought that red here is merely a colour term : a red wine is a type of wine , whereas a red dress is not a type of dress ) . |
| 17 | The shadow employment secretary , Frank Dobson , also attacked the jobs package in the Budget , in the resumed Commons debate on the measures , as merely a propaganda exercise to help a Chancellor in trouble . |
| 18 | The liberals of Cadiz , therefore , did not represent merely a minority group within the political nation in spite of their imperfect election credentials ; as far as there was a political nation , it was reformist . |
| 19 | But the lesson had not been learned , and when Benn fought Eubank as a champion 18 months later , he believed the fight was merely a stepping stone towards big-money outings in America . |
| 20 | This is a movement which has grown in the only way that alliances can , from the bottom up ; it is not merely a discussion group , but a real movement engaged in real debate . |
| 21 | The priest in Israel was not merely a temple functionary , a master and manipulator of sacred ritual by which the people 's offerings and worship were duly performed . |
| 22 | The house , in fact , is older , for the work of the 1870s , though apparently a complete rebuilding , is merely a stone casing around a house originally built by a successful merchant of the Staple , whose inscription is still over the door : ‘ Thinke and Thanke Anno 1570 ’ . |
| 23 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 24 | The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion . |
| 25 | Ask other lawyers about George , and there is acknowledgement of his gifts , even that he is more than merely a jury man , but rarely much warmth . |
| 26 | The supply of SDRs can be controlled in line with the demand for reserve assets , and the costs of provision are very low since it is merely a book-keeping transaction . |
| 27 | He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism . |
| 28 | Forward planning ( matching load forecasts and planned capacity , thinking about the future regional spread of power stations ) , was , of course , necessary , but was in practice merely a part time function of the ex-CEB engineers in charge of system operation . |
| 29 | Example 104 is taken from Percy Scholes 's Oxford Companion to Music ( 8th edn ) , where it is quoted as music which ‘ abandons all pretence of key in any strand whatever ’ , and is therefore completely atonal : However , far from being atonal , the upper part is very clearly in G minor — ; G being merely a substitution note for A , on which it resolves ( an octave lower than usual ) . |
| 30 | How super ! ’ and finally she bought merely a witch mask . |