Example sentences of "is merely [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims , crotchets and quavers there are in a bar . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the fact that Haines must report to the Jockey Club Stewards and has no authority to act unilaterally has inevitably led to suggestions that his is merely a token appointment . |
| 3 | Management has no business to accept any such responsibility ; or rather , since ‘ management ’ is merely a collective abstract expression , managements have no business to accept any such responsibility . |
| 4 | ‘ The most reactionary government this century ’ is merely a mild form of left-wing rhetoric . |
| 5 | Fibre/resin composite is used for the skins , which confer most of the sandwich 's rigidity ; the core is merely a light but compressively stiff intermediary that keeps the two skins apart . |
| 6 | Spoil-sports maintain that IR is merely a new name for what companies have been muddling along at anyway : arranging meetings between management and institutions , co-ordinating the annual general meeting , and producing the annual report . |
| 7 | Mr Barzani says the fall of Saddam Hussein is merely a matter of time . |
| 8 | This is merely a subjective attempt to externalise your own feelings . |
| 9 | Even curry powder is merely a base , relying on ground coriander and ground cumin for its essential character and then turned this or that way , sometimes by roasting , more usually by the addition of other spices , fresh herbs , aromatic vegetables and so on . |
| 10 | Some mixtures of garam masala available commercially include cumin and coriander , but this is merely a cynical way to reduce the cost . |
| 11 | Today Labour talks of investment to pull Britain out of recession , but its investment is merely a euphemism for public spending on an unprecedented scale . |
| 12 | This is merely a random selection to demonstrate the encyclopaedic nature of the work . |
| 13 | German federalism is merely a cloak thrown over the relatively strong regionalism Which persists in Germany , and it was a system adopted by Germany , with the Allies ' approval , after the war as a way of preventing a return of totalitarianism , which is why the Germans associate federalism with the opposite of centralised power . |
| 14 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 15 | It is now common in most accounts to begin with the proviso that the designation ‘ nouveau roman ’ is merely a convenient quasi-journalistic or even marketing label attached to an otherwise heterogeneous collection of writers , sharing little other than the same publishing house at one time or another ( Editions de Minuit ) . |
| 16 | I am referring , after all , to a series of very minor errors on my part and the course I am now pursuing is merely a means of pre-empting any ‘ problems ’ before one arises . |
| 17 | What rush hour exists is merely a breeze of bicycles . |
| 18 | The place of coal in the NEP appears to be to generate electricity instead of oil , although whether it has a long-term future in this rôle or is merely a useful stopgap is unclear . |
| 19 | It is merely a case of conditioning and adaptability . |
| 20 | Finally , the therapist can not take all the credit for his or her successes ; the healer is merely a catalyst in the process . |
| 21 | This chapter is not itself concerned with the mechanics or politics of the matter , the example chosen is merely a convenient one for purposes of illustrating a very common GIS procedure . |
| 22 | In our consideration of the interview for scientific enquiry we must always remind ourselves that the survey is merely a particular tool for collecting information which is deemed relevant for the testing of a hypothesis which stems from theory . |
| 23 | In this case , is merely a coordinate singularity . |
| 24 | In PS itself nothing is said about the sorts of words that are admissible ; there is merely a list of possible and impossible words . |
| 25 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
| 26 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
| 27 | For example , his typical scientific ‘ problem ’ — how many icebergs would be needed to supply Los Angeles with water — is merely a schoolchild 's exercise in numerical estimation , without any research content . |
| 28 | For such , ( and I have very clear pictures of them sitting illiterate and uncomprehending in the back of classes ) , school attendance is merely a sort of ‘ protection money ’ to pacify inquisitive authorities . |
| 29 | It is merely a cat being a cat . |
| 30 | The writer 's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what , without this book , he would perhaps never have perceived in himself . |