Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] merely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moore 's view seems to be that the only non-fallacious cases are those where we are given merely some obvious synonym for the most basic sense of ‘ good ’ , like ‘ intrinsically valuable ’ . |
| 2 | Locke speaks of express consent but also of tacit consent and indeed in one place tacit consent is deemed to have been given merely by being on the territory of the civil society in question . |
| 3 | Suggestions following each heading are intended merely as indications of the scope of the topic , and are not of course exhaustive . |
| 4 | Last night , the town hall 's planning department confirmed the letter has been received merely asking for advice . |
| 5 | No profession wor-thy of the name has ever been impelled merely by the monetary reward . |
| 6 | The demand that , as a science progresses , its theories should become more and more falsifiable , and consequently have more and more content and be more and more informative , rules out modifications in theories that are designed merely to protect a theory from a threatening falsification . |
| 7 | The T x column has been included merely to help explain the calculation of e x ; it represents the total ‘ robin-years ’ of life remaining for all of the original cohort that have reached age x . |
| 8 | This came to an end during the Seven Years War ; and although it was refounded in 1775 it seems to have been designed merely to produce men capable of filling such relatively minor posts as those at Warsaw and The Hague , where it was not necessary for the Prussian representative to be of high social rank . |
| 9 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 10 | If the charge had been framed merely to intimidate , when it failed to do so , the octopus would presumably try something else . |
| 11 | Because agents are seen merely as the supports of this structure , their intentional properties do not enter into social explanation ; and because its various components are interdetermined , the economic sphere does not have the straightforward primacy that economism requires . |
| 12 | So it is hardly surprising that nablabs are seen merely as a distress purchase . |
| 13 | If our oil revenues are used merely to pay the unemployed , who now cost an estimated £18,000 million each year , the burden to those in work will suddenly increase by this amount when the oil revenues cease . |
| 14 | The Decameron stories are used merely as test material and were chosen because they seemed intuitively to be constructed primarily in narrative terms , as opposed to psychological , philosophical or descriptive ones . |
| 15 | If used constructively , instructional programs can be very effective but they can be very boring if they are used merely to transfer work to the microcomputer which would be better carried out in the traditional manner . |
| 16 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 17 | However , if preferences are understood merely as patterns of physical behaviour which tend towards certain results , then there would be no more moral reason for satisfying them than for assisting a computer carry out its programme when this was something undesired by any conscious being . |
| 18 | The Highlanders suffered such heavy losses in the assault on the village that the attack on Delville Wood was assigned to the South African Infantry Brigade , who had earlier been allotted merely mopping-up operations . |
| 19 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 20 | The determination by the material base having been displaced , the form of ideology ( distortion ) can no longer be explained merely by reference to contradictions in the material base although Habermas incorporates Marx 's critique of the commodity form of labour as ideology ( Habermas 1972 : 59 ) . |
| 21 | This increased temperature dependence can not be explained merely by additional carbon conduction , as graphite conduction is nearly independent of temperature . |
| 22 | But whereas such poems are rare in earlier periods , in twelfth-century Europe they multiply so explosively that the phenomenon can not be explained merely as the reflection of a greater number of extant manuscripts . |
| 23 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 24 | The principle of induction can not be justified merely by an appeal to logic . |
| 25 | Millions of pounds which should be spent on health , education and investment will be diverted merely to restore what had existed until the IRA struck . |
| 26 | No longer can investigative stories be stopped merely because they might " prejudge " a matter which may have to be decided in litigation at some future time . |
| 27 | How many can be regarded merely as affecting the objects in which the estate is now held to consist ( this is what the words permutatum dominium convey ) ? |
| 28 | Yet they must not be regarded merely as ‘ difficulties ’ in the text . |
| 29 | We can also see that Socrates himself can not be regarded merely as an agent of destruction , despite the immediate responsibility of the Socratic impulse for the dissolution of tragedy . |
| 30 | Our point is that a popular movement such as the peace movement carries within itself a notion of a just society and that law can not be considered merely as a ‘ tool ’ isolated from broader political and social considerations . |