Example sentences of "merely a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation is to view these publications and the exhibition as a proliferation of surfaces which are in a sense pretty vacant reminders that despite the essentially teleological nature of the Situationist project , it is now immobilised and its documents merely a contribution to culture as the spectacular remains of an abandoned revolutionary ideal . |
| 2 | ‘ It is merely a password to freedom ! ’ |
| 3 | The conclusion states that the BIE recommends that embalming of infectious cases should not take place , the guidelines are merely a service to members . |
| 4 | It may contribute to performance but it is , like ability , merely a guide to potential . |
| 5 | But such homosexuality must in some sense be repressed ; overt ‘ masculine ’ homosexuality is subversive , says Irigaray , because it openly interprets the law according to which society operates and in so doing threatens it : ‘ once the penis itself becomes merely a means to pleasure , pleasure among men , the phallus loses its power ’ ( This Sex , 74 , 24 — 8 , 128 , 171 , 192 — 3 ; her emphases ) . |
| 6 | She thought adoption was not right for D because ‘ adoption involved merely a loss to D — there is no real gain from it to her ’ . |