Example sentences of "[be] [adv] simply [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems particularly important that at the implementation phase the children are not simply left to get on with it . |
| 2 | We 're simply simply looking to meet the needs of people who will be living in our district . |
| 3 | And er we find that those of us who are working with homeless people are increasingly simply trying to find some kind of shelter for a few nights rather than actually trying to find a home for people . |
| 4 | After the revolution , those authors who were not simply names to fill space on the badly produced jacket were usually sufficiently embarrassed to try to explain away their participation in the cult of Ceauşescu and thereby in lengthening his rule . |
| 5 | The Germans were not simply going to let us walk in . |
| 6 | Jane Shore , a dancer in the company at that time , remembers it only with amusement : ‘ We were always simply dying to know what rude words they were using . ’ |
| 7 | But all that business is not simply going to vanish : ICL will be refilling the channels with its own personal computers and DRS 6000 and DSR 3000 Unix machines before they even empty of third party machines — and by using a captive distribution network , ICL should be able to improve overall profitability . |
| 8 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 9 | She was not simply trying to turn Scotland into a satellite state . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the longer you look , the more the qualities and character of the tomb become apparent and the clearer it is that the architect was not simply trying to imitate the Taj and failing . |