Example sentences of "simply a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Word had got about as to why she had disappeared on compassionate leave and she began receiving many invitations for such recreational activities as were available : film shows , dances or simply a get-together in the local inn . |
| 2 | Although it has been seen that early Cubism was in no sense simply a continuation of Cézanne , the paintings of Picasso and Braque of this period represent , in many ways , the culmination of the investigation of form and pictorial space initiated by him thirty years earlier . |
| 3 | Christmas in Abergavenny was simply a continuation of a year of ‘ good sales ’ . |
| 4 | However , the new approaches are not simply a response to administrative or organizational problems . |
| 5 | Certainly there has been a rapid increase in the number of consultancies offering such services , but this is simply a response to the demand created by the draft EC legislation on environmental audits and the draft British Standard on Environmental Management Systems . |
| 6 | The 1910 dispute , when the male compositors finally succeeded in putting a stop to the recruitment of girl apprentices to the trade , was not simply a battle of the sexes . |
| 7 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 8 | When we consider the dominance of collectivism as an explanation of what makes Japanese experience unique , we do need to emphasize that this is not simply a characteristic of Western or American writing , but many Japanese social scientists have echoed this explanation in their attempts to identify the sources of consensus in Japanese society . |
| 9 | The narrator of the tale is made a rhetorician , apostrophizing both his audience : and one of his characters : It has been pointed out that a skilled mastery of the " idiom of popular poetry " , embodied in the witty appropriation of familiar poetic epithets such as hende , jolif and gent , which are used of Nicholas , Absolon and Alison respectively , is not simply a characteristic of Chaucerian style , but is especially exploited by Chaucer for this one tale . |
| 10 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 11 | Scandal came easy to him , it was simply a way of life , a way of raising himself above the ordinariness of his upbringing in Fife . |
| 12 | The budget is simply a way of costing and laying out the plans . |
| 13 | However , notation is simply a way of naming things and every field has its own specialised words and jargon , so the basic idea is really familiar to most people . |
| 14 | A RECORD number of 16-year-olds will stay on at schools and colleges next month — but for many it is simply a way of avoiding the dole queue . |
| 15 | taxation is simply a way of getting cash . |
| 16 | All this musing was simply a way of deflecting the inevitable moment when she had to face her . |
| 17 | Many of these actions are simply a way of getting attention . |
| 18 | But there is a stronger argument against the airlifts , namely that they are simply a way of sidestepping the real issue , which is asserting the writ of the UN humanitarian and peacekeeping effort on the ground . |
| 19 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 20 | Dressed in a striped prison suit bearing his prison number , Guzmán remained defiant , however ; he ignored all questions and instead launched into a seven-minute address , insisting that his arrest was " simply a bend in the road " and that Sendero 's 12-year " people 's war " would finally end in triumph . |
| 21 | A MediaStar source says : ‘ There was no battle over who should take charge of a merged media operation , simply a decision by clients that they would rather continue with the same team . |
| 22 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 23 | Perceptions are simply a vision of political realities . |
| 24 | The suburban setting of my destination was unexceptional , simply a footbridge over tracks , a few solemn railway buildings , a row of villas , a couple of trees . |
| 25 | According to Buried Alive , the 1973 biography of the singer by Myra Friedman , Joplin pleaded with Seth to force her to stop taking heroin , but he thought it was simply a play for more attention . |
| 26 | The 1990 local elections were thus treated by both politicians and commentators as providing not simply a test of the impact of the poll tax , but also a crucial verdict on Mrs Thatcher and her government . |
| 27 | Removing a cistern is simply a case of undoing the inlet and overflow pipes , which are connected to the cistern with large brass or plastic nuts . |
| 28 | For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best . |
| 29 | This is not simply a case of watching the vitamins and minerals . |
| 30 | I dare say it 's simply a case of getting one Monday mixed with another . |