Example sentences of "the simplest " in BNC.
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| 1 | A regular walk around the garden to make sure everything is growing healthily is the simplest precaution of all , often revealing preliminary signs of trouble . |
| 2 | The simplest and most fundamental aspect of cognisance ( fundamental philosophically and developmentally ) is what is usually referred to as ‘ self-world dualism ’ : the knowledge that there is a physical world out there of which I am an experiencer and that is distinct from me . |
| 3 | Here is perhaps the simplest and most dramatic example : the non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age . |
| 4 | Indeed brain-mind identity is more than a belief , it is a hypothesis which seems to be the simplest explanation of the mind-brain problem , if it is a problem , and therefore one which parsimony requires us to accept . |
| 5 | You are two players who have just started to develop your game , and the simplest of drills is learning to rally . |
| 6 | He selected the simplest steps and poses of classical dance with its perfectly balanced form and at the same time gave it straighter , longer lines to draw attention to the more athletic qualities of Greek dance and to the clear , austere sounds of Satie 's modern music . |
| 7 | It has evolved from the simplest folk through the mannered court and finally to the expert classical dance . |
| 8 | And so I am pasted to this leaning morass , observing the simplest of equations . |
| 9 | The simplest but least permanent method of path making is to lay slab on sand . |
| 10 | In your case , I 'm sure a specific quantity — which you can divide into two or three meals a day , so he does n't get too frustrated on a diet — is the simplest solution . |
| 11 | He raises large issues : how much does one need to know to understand and engage in the dialogues within society , and between past and present , on the simplest level of knowing what is being talked about ? |
| 12 | The contextualizing of even the simplest poem has no obvious point to end at , once begun . |
| 13 | You can see my point — that even the simplest of overcalls can steer opponents into strange misjudgements . |
| 14 | The notion of luck is one of the simplest of these devices . |
| 15 | Let me take the university manifestation as perhaps the simplest . |
| 16 | The simplest device is simply to deny the axiom altogether ; but that is by definition foredoomed to failure . |
| 17 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |
| 18 | In any case , many of the peoples with the simplest technology , such as the hunters and gatherers of Africa and Asia , are neither patrilineal nor matrilineal , and do not form descent groups of any type . |
| 19 | Interviewing the likes of Lester Piggott or notoriously inarticulate footballers whose only comment on scoring a hat-trick is ‘ I 'm over the moon ’ or ‘ I just hit it into the back of the net , Brian ’ can not be the simplest of tasks . |
| 20 | This is the simplest type of shower to fit . |
| 21 | The simplest answer to the question about what causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise is that it is a reflection of the rhythmic world in which the newborn child has been placed and to which it begins to respond . |
| 22 | In the simplest terms , the daily timing system consists of a body clock that is synchronized by external time-cues and that sends information to a variety of systems in the body and so produces daily rhythms in them . |
| 23 | The simplest arrangement is apparent in the original building of the village school at Shawell , Leicestershire , the conversion of which is described and illustrated later in this chapter . |
| 24 | The effects of diarrhoeal disease can be conquered with one of the simplest and cheapest natural remedies known to science . |
| 25 | One comes back to what most people are agreed on : in the short term the simplest , cheapest , quickest and most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions is to use energy more efficiently , in both homes and factories . |
| 26 | A salad of even the simplest ingredients is enlivened by an innovative dressing . |
| 27 | But , as Stanislaw Baranczak points out in his introduction to this collection of unfailingly graceful , learned and thoughtful essays , ‘ the simplest definition of a dissident writer is a writer who wants to practise his profession in a normal way ’ . |
| 28 | In economics , such behaviour makes even the simplest transaction difficult to analyse . |
| 29 | The classic illustration is one of the simplest games : the Prisoners ' Dilemma . |
| 30 | The simplest radioactive methods are based on decay of a radioactive isotope into a stable one . |