Sentence examples for merely so that from inspiring English sources

As with Wodehouse, any semblance of a plot exists merely so that the characters have something to do with their hands while they spout funny things.

That is not there merely so that you can tell your friends you like the article, but to allow Facebook to flesh out your profile for advertisers.

Whatever our motives for travelling to Rome, whether they be religious, hedonistic, academic, or merely so that we can say we've been there, once there we all become consumers.

Her demands for liberation for women were not merely so that they could do some of the institutional things men did (and women now do, too), but to have full freedom to roam, geographically and imaginatively.

Not the least of the book's oddities is that it's named after a nobody: Dolon is a character whom the poet conjures merely so that he can kill him off, a few hundred lines later, in literature's nastiest episode of trick-or-treating.

"If I feel that there is a real danger for me, then I would go to the police, but not so that they'd solve the case, but merely so that when I do get attacked in future I can show that I did go to the police".

In short, it looks like Leica is aiming at all markets here – from the superrich to the merely rich – so that's a plus.

The government needs to do much more to support these carers so they are not merely struggling to survive, but so that they have the opportunity to thrive and give these children the chances they deserve.

The Army sought a nerve agent that had "persistence" and "percutaneous toxicity," so that merely brushing against it would cause death.

So that argument is merely untrue.

An MSA is merely a way to organize data so that similar sequence features are aligned together.