Example sentences of "was [adv] simply [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS always simply a matter of time before full back Alan Tait followed his former boss Doug Laughton to Leeds . |
| 2 | But that was before she had met Nathan Bryce , when this complex , attractive , abrasive man was still simply a name and a photograph in a gossip column . |
| 3 | She could not now pretend that none of this was known to her , that she was still simply a diligent and faithful daughter , loyal handmaid of a noble art . |
| 4 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 5 | Anticlericalism elsewhere was sometimes simply a matter of anti-Roman pinpricks , as in Great Britain , when agitation arose about aristocratic conversions to Rome and the British Reformation Society could protest to the government over the appointment of a Roman Catholic viceroy of India and a Roman Catholic lord chamberlain . |
| 6 | A police spokesman said : ‘ It was quite simply a rampage . ’ |
| 7 | For him , Lily 's show was quite simply the best … |
| 8 | Matilda was then simply a runaway nun , and in Anselm 's eyes , in danger of damnation . |
| 9 | When the figure of 175 was given , was that simply the clause 2 figure for England , or was the clause 5 figure for the Welsh inspectorate also included ? |
| 10 | Neither was this simply a feature of desert spirituality . |
| 11 | Nor was this simply a matter of formal relations at a state-to-state level . |
| 12 | Was this simply an idiosyncrasy of this particular doctor , or not ? |