Sentence examples for merely not from inspiring English sources

Some kidnap victims are rich, but many are merely not poor.

Elsewhere, too, children, worse than merely not making the cut, actually get in the way.

I was no less greedy than they were, merely not so convinced.

"Merely not liking a change is no basis for a frivolous lawsuit to reverse it," she added.

She does speak English, merely not well enough, probably because she spent much of her childhood in Mexico.

By the middle of last week, I was hopefully opining that it was merely "not a vintage year".

Dr Crick used his to tackle what is one of the few truly mysterious (as opposed to merely not-yet-understood) phenomena in science human consciousness.By now he had moved from the windy fens of Cambridge to the sunny beaches of California.

They range from the merely not-known-not-to-be-false to the not-quite-believable-but-quite-credible.

Wise decided not to recommend his appointment to the board, which duly voted not to hire him, so he wasn't fired (which would have been tantamount to punishing him for his speech) but merely not-hired. .

But Rangers are not merely another team.

But it is not merely symbolic.