Example sentences of "[subord] simply [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover it was a complex issue , rather than simply splitting opinion on party lines . |
| 2 | Rather than simply consuming pop ( which makes clever little references to its commodity status ) we should look to music that consumes US . |
| 3 | In this market context , competitive advantage hinges on achieving an optimal balance between the efficiency and responsiveness of work organization , rather than simply maximizing scale economies . |
| 4 | And even in the wider social world of adult intercourse , language clearly has many more functions than simply sending information . |
| 5 | Schregle 's ( 1981 ) approach to this basic problem of what is comparable in cross-national studies is to compare the methods and ways in which particular industrial relations functions are carried out in various countries , rather than simply comparing institutions and procedures carrying the same designation . |
| 6 | But , according to Keith , this will take more than simply organising hardware and writing the appropriate software . |
| 7 | teachers who were prepared to discuss the GIST problem with children , rather than simply accepting VISTA and other interventions and hoping that an implicit message would get through ; |
| 8 | The plan that produces the least CO 2 costs less than simply letting market forces prevail , because its high level of energy efficiency saves enough money to pay for the investment needed to switch to biomass production . |
| 9 | But rather than simply treading water , the big man has put his stock in the new material — which is more relevant than nostalgic . |
| 10 | Actually some bats play a trick that is more interesting than simply emitting hoots of constant pitch and measuring the pitch of the returning echoes . |
| 11 | This strongly suggests that housing tenure is associated with more substantial and fundamental aspects than simply housing matters . |
| 12 | Does not the proactivity need to be politicians of all parties coming together and discussing and listening to each other rather than simply making pronouncements ? |
| 13 | As well as simply receiving investment from abroad , these countries are also home to fledgling multinationals of their own which are , in turn , themselves now investing in the rest of the region . |