Example sentences of "can [adv] simply [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why , when you have agreed a price on the home you want , you can not simply hand the owner a cheque then move in . |
| 2 | He points out : ’ A court faced with a young offender who has been involved in the taking of vehicles , even though it may be his third or possibly fourth appearance , can not simply pass a deterrent sentence on the basis of the prevalence of such offending in the locality Section 1(4A) ( b ) of the 1982 Act deals with protecting the public from serious harm from the offender . |
| 3 | The point is , we can not simply change a word 's meaning for the whole community by fiat . |
| 4 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 5 | Freud has sometimes been excluded in this way from sociology , but , as has been shown above , the sociologist can not simply accept a conclusion from psychology and dismiss Freud for this reason . |
| 6 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 7 | In such cases the judge can not simply replace an amount of money lost or an asset having an ascertainable money value with an equivalent amount of money . |