Example sentences of "enough merely [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1	Yet it is not enough merely to draw attention to the growth of what Marx called the ‘ light cavalry ’ of capitalism , without also observing a significant distinction within the developed countries ; or more precisely between the Old and New Worlds .
2	But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns .
3	‘ It is no longer enough merely to acknowledge the facts … and to hope that science will solve by itself the problems that it is creating .
4	He felt that it was not enough merely to preserve isolated buildings , but that their setting should be protected and improved as well .
5	For a convincing construction of a normal form it is not enough merely to list a few types of equivalence that can arise and show how to deal with them .
6	It is not enough merely to consider how to perform the five jumps as a technical exercise .
7	It is not enough merely to assert their impotence .
8	Establishing this is extremely difficult ; certainly , it is not enough merely to show that you were desperately short of cash .
9	‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’
10	In Scotland , actual distribution or display must be shown to have occurred , whereas in England and Wales it is enough merely to establish ‘ intent ’ .

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