Example sentences of "is merely an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul de Man is reported to have said that a literary work is merely an event in the history of interpretation . |
| 2 | I suggest — this is merely an illustrative explanation — that we are here dealing with a cyclical phenomenon . |
| 3 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 4 | This clip fixing of slipped slates is merely an expedient which can not forever put off the day when the permanent refixing or renewal of the entire roof covering is necessary . |
| 5 | In this transaction the tout is merely an agent . |
| 6 | He believes that the radical opposition 's shrillness is merely an effort ‘ to ring bells to attract attention . ’ |
| 7 | It is true that sometimes he does attack innate ideas ; but this is merely an indirect strategy . |
| 8 | This is merely an outline of a possible procedure . |
| 9 | Instead it is merely an input distribution system . |
| 10 | It is very difficult to see how Germany is less centralised and it should be clear that the ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle is merely an allocation of competence , as in the hierarchy of a company , rather than a distribution of power . |
| 11 | It has , however , been doubted whether s.92(1) ( d ) could be used to control odours caused by animals per se where the husbandry of the premises could not be faulted , on the basis that ‘ effluvium ’ is a reference to ‘ particulate matter ’ which is not present if there is merely an odour . |
| 12 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
| 13 | This is merely an extension of the pair . |
| 14 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 15 | He is merely an object who is affected by them . |
| 16 | Growth by suckering is merely an extension of its own life ; it achieves reproduction by producing seeds which are encased in the edible fruit so fondly admired by birds . |
| 17 | But it should be remembered that this is merely an early indication growth . |
| 18 | How sad it is when a believer in his forties or fifties is merely an absentee landlord , living idly off the intellectual rent from the thinking of his student days ! |
| 19 | A two-phase clock signal is merely an anti-phase type ( i.e. as one signal goes low the other goes high , and vice versa ) . |
| 20 | In other words , the whole of the story above is merely an innocent encounter , puffed-up into a tissue of lying farragoes . |
| 21 | Mary was at pains to point out that these are badges and that the off-quoted ‘ crest ’ is merely an element of the overall design . |
| 22 | Brewster is merely an old word for ‘ brewer ’ — which is why licensing sessions , held in the first 14 days of February , have that name . |
| 23 | Different cultures have different attitudes to such obligations ; for some it is merely an extension of an already extended family . |
| 24 | Where there is merely an autonomous goal , with less creativity , we find problem-solvers , consultants , integrators , market researchers , entrepreneurs , advisers , forecasters and corporate planners . |
| 25 | In effect the duty is merely an amalgam of fiduciary duties at common law requiring an agent to act in the best interests of his principal . |
| 26 | The report concluded that the Soviet Union and not the NKLP connoted the reality of power — ‘ The NKLP is merely an instrument of Soviet control over the northern half of the peninsula . ’ |
| 27 | Whilst it may be argued that this is merely an illustration of the duty owed under the OLA 1957 , it may also be said that this exists as a form of liability under the tort of negligence but outside the scope of the 1957 Act . |
| 28 | According to this study , clerical work is merely an occupational category through which men pass . |
| 29 | Treaty , which is raised by the applicants in the main proceedings in Case C 221/89 , that provision is merely an expression , specific to the agricultural sector , of the general principle of equality . |
| 30 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |