Example sentences of "simply the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 2 | The nine-coach train carrying just twenty-eight passengers each paying around £2,600 a time , was billed as ‘ the highest point yet reached in luxury train travel ’ , its on-train cuisine described as ‘ simply the best on any train anywhere in the world ’ . |
| 3 | But if every work of art is simply the expression of the artist 's intuition , it is evident that an absolute or complete pattern would be useless , since the intuitions of two different minds could never be expressed by the same form : nor can anything in art be said to have been ‘ done once for all ’ , since if it were ‘ done again ’ by another hand — used , that is , to express the intuition of another spirit — it would be no longer what had been done before . |
| 4 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 5 | To the north the streets are quieter , and by following the canals — a smelly exercise in high summer , no doubt — or simply the end of your nose , Bruges can be appreciated on a more domestic scale . |
| 6 | The East German crisis — or should one say simply the German crisis ? — is thus essentially a political crisis , and the answers to it , if there are answers , must also be political . |
| 7 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |
| 8 | All his probing to the roots of religion had discovered simply the bankruptcy of those roots , or at least their apparent irrelevance to the job of finding a meaning in modern life . |
| 9 | Their criticism is not simply the embittered jealousy of defeated leaders ; it represents a feeling of betrayal . |
| 10 | The reason is not simply the preliminary nature of the manuscript . |
| 11 | Chess was simply the most convenient route for demonstrating those theories . |
| 12 | The campaign argues that the use of high exchange rates to squeeze inflation — by hitting corporate profits and therefore companies abilities to award inflationary pay increases — is ‘ not a subtle process ’ but is simply the ‘ brutal and old fashioned one of deflation . ’ |
| 13 | The campaign argues that the use of high exchange rates to squeeze inflation — by hitting corporate profits and therefore companies abilities to award inflationary pay increases — is ‘ not a subtle process ’ but is simply the ‘ brutal and old fashioned one of deflation . ’ |
| 14 | Contemporary records suggest she possessed neither classic beauty nor a great voice : simply the built-in spotlight of the incandescent star . |
| 15 | It was simply the Top Ten , then certain pin-ups of artists of my person choice … sketched , in fact , by the editor himself . ’ |
| 16 | ETA has had operatives in Barcelona for years , and the documents could reflect simply the continuation of these operations . |
| 17 | Possibly their bruises were simply the effect of ejecting on to hard sand from a fast aircraft . |
| 18 | Eight conspiracy theories about the killing are given considerable space in a museum housed on the sixth floor of the School Book Depository , called simply The Sixth Floor . |
| 19 | What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins . |
| 20 | What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins . |
| 21 | Epicurus taught , therefore , a thoroughgoing materialism according to which our world is simply the chance production of atoms coming together in their fall through an infinite void . |
| 22 | As for truth , Epicurus , rather like Hobbes centuries later , took sense-perception to be simply the effect of objects on our material souls . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is simply the case that the party should be there while it intends to govern Northern Ireland and it should be exerting itself to offer the voters a real alternative to sectarian politics . |
| 25 | Now it was not simply the male , but the circumcised male who was to be the full participant in his nation 's covenantal law and cultic activities . |
| 26 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 27 | Now , the presence of the martyrs in city churches began to create new sites of holiness : churches were no longer simply the gathering places of the faithful for worship , but shrines of the saints , holy places . |
| 28 | He now declared the aim of the NSDAP to be simply the ‘ annihilation and extirpation of the Marxist world view ’ , and during 1923 , as the notion of a heroic , final struggle between two opposed Weltanschauungen seemed to grow in his mind , the Jews played a less overt role in Hitler 's public statements , whereas the sole , mortal enemy of the Nazi Movement was now proclaimed to be Marxism . |
| 29 | She is simply the victim of the kind of prejudice which all plump women experience in their everyday lives , including me . |
| 30 | No , I do n't think it was that ; it was simply the view he took of certain roles , certain music . |