Example sentences of "[am/are] merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am merely a dyke-hag . |
| 2 | I am not concerned to defend that world ; I am merely trying to understand it , and the rules by which it lived . |
| 3 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 4 | I am merely reporting on the fate to have befallen every other Minister for Sport you can care to mention which is one of the reasons why we are still debating the kind of football stadiums we should have for the future when every other country besides Botswana and the Cocos Islands have already built theirs . |
| 5 | ‘ I am merely chopping firewood in the salon and beating my mistress like a gentleman . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am merely trying to describe aspects of life as they are experienced subjectively by others . |
| 8 | Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act . |
| 9 | I am merely arguing that the role in science attributed to observation statements by the inductivist is incorrect . |
| 10 | I am merely concerned to point out that a clarification of particular-identity is normally given in terms of our experience with things in perceptual space and perpeptual time . |
| 11 | I believe I am merely following along the path which he once trod out . |
| 12 | I am merely an ordinary man . |
| 13 | I am merely pointing out the disadvantages of a romantic trip without romance . ’ |
| 14 | I am merely your psychiatrist , señorita . ’ |
| 15 | She is my responsibility and I am merely suggesting that you may want to go home . |
| 16 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 17 | I am merely asking for an extension of the logic which is already so well known to Marsham street . |
| 18 | ‘ I am merely the messenger . |
| 19 | I am merely rounding my contribution off , by finding or , as I hope , by failing to find — some recorded trace of Summerchild 's work . |
| 20 | I am merely placing on record , as precisely as possible , the conditions that determined the starting-point of our inquiry . |
| 21 | The real solution is to train pilots to accept responsibility , whether they are sitting in the aircraft or are merely bystanders at the launch point . |
| 22 | Often these problems are merely irritating , but for some women the problem can be so severe that the way they live their life can be affected . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Dogs at these establishments are merely forlorn breeding machines with frightened eyes , their wretched pups caged in hellholes , often left to rot in their own dirt and squalor . |
| 25 | Confusion — the sundering of raskol — was thus itself confounded ; and the crisis or breaking point of his illness followed by his ‘ regeneration ’ ( voskresenie ) and his ‘ passing from one world to another ’ and his ‘ acquaintance with a new and hitherto unknown reality ’ are merely affirmed at the end of the Epilogue . |
| 26 | The ‘ leafy screens ’ of Birnam Wood are merely sets of plastic riot-shields . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A unitary system , the sovereignty of Parliament usually wielded by a one-party majority , Treasury control of national finance , the absence of a written constitution or a Bill of Rights which courts can use to challenge the government , and the idea that extra-parliamentary party organs are merely ‘ handmaidens ’ of the parliamentary party all bear witness to this centralization . |
| 29 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 30 | In spite of this the idea that marriage , the family , property , the State etc. are merely temporal , transitory institutions , the product of a particular social system , is an idea which all modern anthropologists would accept even if many would hesitate to broadcast it . |