The phrase "caused by merely" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to indicate that a certain event is the result of only one factor or action. For example, "The fire was caused by merely a spark."
Worry concerning a causal connection between greater understanding of evolutionary science and change in student religious belief aside, many teachers are concerned about a potential backlash caused by merely teaching evolution – effectively or not.
Children will be excluded if the acute illness is caused by merely traumatic or neurological conditions, intoxication, psychiatric or behavioural problem, or an exacerbation of a known chronic condition.
It's not clear, for example, whether the transfer of mitochondria was caused by, or merely correlated with, CD38 levels, she says.
It calls the disruptions caused by parallel trading merely a "nuisance".
The study points out that it is not always possible to determine whether a death is caused by MRSA or merely accelerated by it.
Unless realism has already been rejected for other reasons, then, this picture is an open possibility at the start of the debate, which means that the realist is entitled to hold that many of our moral beliefs are in fact not merely caused by evolutionary and other 'morally blind' influences, but are instead well-grounded responses to moral reality.
We cannot exclude that this is merely caused by unfortunate engineering of the rHhoB truncation constructs, but the chosen truncation of HhoB at Gln should have affected neither the fold of the protease domain nor any other important domain [ 24].
But this motivated behavior is not merely caused by her reasons; it is a voluntary response to them.
However, this feeling is not caused by migration; it is merely correlated with it.
Whatever the explanation, the decline in deaths was not merely caused by the drop in driving as the Great Recession wore on.
No, says Waldron (and here he follows Catharine MacKinnon's argument about pornography), the speech is the damage: "[T]he harms emphasized in this book are often harms constituted by speech rather than merely caused by speech".
