Example sentences of "[verb] [be] simply [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The questions listed are simply an indication of some of the key information you may require in order to plan sensibly ahead . |
| 2 | What matters is simply a profession of faith in Jesus as a manifestation of God , and such a profession of faith is in itself sufficient to ensure salvation . |
| 3 | What matters is simply the ranking of the options available . |
| 4 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 5 | The measure used was simply the total number of accidents reported at a junction in this period . |
| 6 | It 's all well concealed and unless the auditor has an obligation to actually hunt this down , the kind of white hunter er er of the British economy er then er it wo n't be detected and the passive approach to audit such as the er audit practices board is recommending is simply a recipe for further disasters er and further audit failures . |
| 7 | Like Bacon and Hobbes , whose forthright reactions are that what is really needed is simply the adoption of a correct method , Locke does not immediately follow this traditional course ; but he advances the more circumspect suggestion that we should first stand back and investigate our capacity for knowledge . |
| 8 | If however the means used is simply the issuing of a request as in ( 176 ) , then the causee can either be represented as being brought to perform some action as a result of the request ( get ) or as doing something under the influence or authority of the causer ( have ) . |
| 9 | When Gypsy made the Dance Top Ten , the ‘ video ’ shown was simply a bizarre still photo of what appeared to be a bespectacled school-kid . |
| 10 | Hence the 1-gram statistics of a data set are simply the frequency of each symbol within the data set . |
| 11 | This result can be confirmed analytically using the following expressions for the three-phase static torque/rotor position characteristics : The resultant torque from two of the phases excited is simply the sum of the separate phase torques : Both graphical and analytical results indicate that the only difference between the excitation schemes is in the equilibrium positions ; with two phases excited the equilibrium position is between the positions corresponding to separate excitation of each phase . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 13 | How could it have been simply an accident ? |
| 14 | What changes is simply the mark-space ratio or the duty cycle . |
| 15 | In fields next to a river , the furrows are noticeably at right angles to the stream , although in some other places , where no obvious drainage benefit was gained , ridge and furrow seem to have been simply a by-product of the normal way of ploughing . |
| 16 | Some of these areas may become blurred , he feels : for example , one feature of complementary medicine that patients may prefer is simply the longer consultations that its practitioners tend to give . |
| 17 | ‘ What I do n't want is simply a repeat of that meeting , ’ said Mrs Thompson . |
| 18 | How last year the crop had meant nothing to him at all ; how , without understanding , he had walked about the harbour and warehouses of Episkopi , and the misuse of the Order 's cargo of sugar had been simply a matter noted and used as a playing-counter . |
| 19 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 20 | The decision that determines is simply the flip side of the decision that determines L s . |
| 21 | What we were seeing was simply a ‘ rationalisation ’ of the collection , a ‘ refining process . ’ |
| 22 | The access times considered in this chapter have been simply the time taken to position the device access mechanism to read or write a selected record . |
| 23 | These new ways of working are simply a consolidation of the established pattern among officers of personalizing their practice , that is , carefully matching their particular social work knowledge and skills to the unique needs of the individual offender ( Singer , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | The pleasure smoking brings is simply the satisfaction of a craving that , if one did n't smoke , one would n't have in the first place . |
| 25 | In this case the basic data of a savings plan is simply the amount per month that you are prepared to save , the likely annual interest rate and the number of years for which the plan continues . |