Because thought gives rise to action, violence in thought merely precedes violent behaviour.
However, on both occasions such demonstrations merely preceded something of a drubbing so on Saturday evening Welsh manners could not have been bettered.
Hence, assuming that Type D personality and low SES merely precede most health outcomes, our findings suggest that Type D personality does not explain the socioeconomic health inequalities, but is a risk factor for adverse health outcomes in addition to low SES.
The adventures of the day were merely rituals preceding the serious business of the night.
Scholars of the "middle period" believed that the real revolution happened in the Age of Jackson, and thought of the preceding years merely as prologue.
Because the CCA1-like/R-R and TBP-like subgroups subdivided into several clades (Fig. 2), the preceding method merely estimated the dN/dS ratio across each subgroup, without considering variations among clades in the large subgroups.
Meanwhile, which should merely introduce some extra information that is not crucial to defining the preceding noun.
To a clinician, the fact that the polarisation of the waveform coincides with the preceding beat is merely incidental.
But substitution is illegitimate because 'so-called' refers to the expression preceding it and not merely the referent of that expression.
But as Mr. Travers and Ms. Darghis seem to ignore (and Mr. Hitchcock affirms), sex -- like suspense -- isn't merely the culminating act, but all that heart-pounding stuff preceding it.
In recent decades, he writes, financial and economic trends "have merely confirmed the pattern set in the preceding years, with public-sector debt and other government obligations, and inflation, growing at a pace much faster than the real economy".
