Example sentences of "was merely [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally this was merely a method of putting pressure upon the tenant , but the distrainer has had , since the end of the seventeenth century , a power to sell the goods and so pay himself , the surplus ( if any ) going to the owner . |
| 2 | Yes , something was going on inside her : recently , she was pursued by the idea that her love for Paul was merely a matter of will : merely the will to love him ; merely the will to have a happy marriage . |
| 3 | Four fences out , Llewellyn made his move , and from the next it was merely a question of whether Party Politics could hold on or whether Romany King could peg him back . |
| 4 | Mrs Marcos had said the burial was merely a ‘ filial and sacred duty ’ . |
| 5 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 6 | To assess whether this before — after difference was merely a fluke occurrence the Wilcoxon Test was undertaken and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z=-7.7565 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 . |
| 7 | ‘ That paper was merely a preliminary one and was published months ago ! ’ |
| 8 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 9 | This pleased his Peripatetic opponents who asserted with Aristotle that sinking or floating was merely a matter of shape . |
| 10 | Initially , he presumed that this phenomenon was merely a personal idiosyncrasy , but later observations showed that this was not the case at all : the tensing-up of neck muscles is practically universal . |
| 11 | The parchment was merely a list drawn up in a clerkly hand describing the effects and property of one ‘ Patrick Seton Esquire ’ . |
| 12 | My Mam was ‘ the boss ’ at home but outside that house she was merely a wife and mother , never a person in her own right . |
| 13 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |
| 14 | No one was sure whether he had deliberately set a trap , or whether it was merely a chance remark that brought about such astounding results . |
| 15 | It was merely a new version of an old horror , less tenable than the dreams of childhood , a more rational , more adult terror . |
| 16 | Providing you had memorised the five scale patterns and the associated chord shape for each one , it was merely a question of finding the chord shape in whatever key/position was required , and the appropriate scale fingering would follow . |
| 17 | In fact , ‘ I shot The Sheriff ’ was merely a Marleyised version of the storyline in a song that The Wailers had used as a vocal showcase since the late '60s , The Impressions ' ‘ Keep On Moving ’ . |
| 18 | A correspondent knows of one witness to the February 1992 sighting in Mrs Topliff 's house , and this person stated that it was merely a large domestic cat . |
| 19 | Mounting the pulpit , I explained that she was merely a listener . |
| 20 | Wothorpe House , because of its ruinous state , its unusual design and its proximity to the site of Wothorpe nunnery , is also a victim of such mythology , but it was merely a dower house for widows of the earls and marquesses at Burghley . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The application that was heard in the Chancery Division was merely a preliminary issue to see if Eagle was entitled to pursue its claim . |
| 23 | It was merely a process of putting out delicate feelers , testing the winds and establishing a rough but workable scenario to contain the plot . |
| 24 | In those early days , that last week of June , it was merely a matter of raising enough money . |
| 25 | For Annabel , it was merely a means of filling in time before she starts rehearsals for her starring role in Cinderella in Norwich this month , when she appears with Gary Webster , of Minder , dancer Lionel Blair , and ‘ a lady from Teabag ’ , whose name she could n't remember . |
| 26 | ( This had no bearing on the incinerable nature of the occasion ; it was merely a great favourite of us both . ) |
| 27 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 28 | While the mortality rate at Rendcomb was high , it was merely a preparation for what pilots could expect to face in France . |
| 29 | Being named Best Actor at Cannes for The Player was merely a warm-up for the adulation induced by his latest film , Bob Roberts . |
| 30 | What if all this was merely a wind-up ? |