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1The match was regarded as a formality by most of the home support.
2Purely as a formality, we have scheduled your thesis defense for Friday afternoon.
3I'll accept the command as a formality but appoint you my chief aid.
4He was two years older than Noel and went to Hollis-butonly as a formality.
5I understand that a School Committee hearing would precede that, but only as a formality.
6Just as a formality he was to go before a medical board again in August.
7I would hate to see yourself leave, Captain. I said it almost as a formality.
8Paul Mackay's position in Charles Haughey's constituency was not so much a job as a formality.
9Upper chamber approval is seen as a formality.
10Many, however, signed with misgivings, and some almost avowedly as a formality to please the Emperor.
11EU governments will still need to approve the final agreement but that is seen as a formality.
12The younger Magomedov's nomination must be approved by Dagestan's parliament, a process widely seen as a formality.
13Approval there is seen as a formality.
14Her lawyer was merely an unfledged practitioner assigned to her defense as a formality of the court.
15Mark Hildebrand recognized the charged tone and knocked on the door frame as a formality before entering.
16But we see this as a formality.