Example sentences of "this [was/were] merely [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 2 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 3 | But this was merely a cover , and the partners began in search from the start , subsequently headhunting many of their ex-colleagues , despite Peat Marwick Mitchell 's threats of legal action . |
| 4 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |
| 5 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 6 | This was merely a way of saying that herring dishes will be available to shoppers on Saturday courtesy of the country 's Consulate . |
| 7 | However , this was merely a hangover from the past ; and after the middle of the century even these payments ceased . |
| 8 | What if all this was merely a wind-up ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He caught a cold on his way to Tangiers which affected his left lung , but this was merely the prelude to what became an unfortunate trip . |
| 11 | In effect , this was merely an attempt to generalise the agreement reached in Bedfordshire in 1930 , although the criterion adopted then was not based on population size of centres but on local government boundaries , a much more advantageous position for the District , than the 1938 proposal . |