Example sentences of "not a simple " in BNC.
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| 1 | The description of an object is not a simple task . |
| 2 | How a spectator views an object is also not a simple matter , despite this century 's increased knowledge of the psychology of perception . |
| 3 | But while it 's true that Woolf 's disapproval of the film 's distinctive angles and extreme lighting contrasts does betray a degree of conservatism and , in his later campaign against The Man who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , he was clearly the enemy of anything even moderately original , Woolf was not a simple philistine . |
| 4 | A decade which venerated both Dr Spock and Marilyn Monroe was not a simple one . |
| 5 | In other words , the ‘ tribalism ’ of many Libyans was not a simple survival , an inability to adapt , to change , but was a self-conscious contestation of a government and its works . |
| 6 | Their problem was that , for all the clarity of their insistence that God was on their side , their world was a complex , not a simple place . |
| 7 | This explains why the tool is an ATP molecule , and not a simple inorganic phosphate ; the energy is in the phosphate bond , but the adenine part of the molecule is like a handle by which the enzyme can take hold . |
| 8 | Any model of the mind which allows for such a possibility is not a simple one , and hints at , if it does not actually affirm , the existence of the unconscious . |
| 9 | ‘ that it is not a simple case of money collected in the City being spent outside its borders ; though that , I suppose , would be true charity . ’ |
| 10 | But if older women do have special survival skills , evaluating them is not a simple matter . |
| 11 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter Aleksandras Macijauskas has still managed to document the people , and lifestyle , of his native Lithuania . |
| 12 | In a Soviet Union where getting a film developed is not a simple matter , photography can not be the action of a consumer — of holiday , sports event or sight-seeing tour — but has to be , at the very least , a technical hobby ; at the best , an art form |
| 13 | As Agarawal ( 1980 : 150 ) in terms of wood fuel puts it , in the same way as Sen , it is not a simple technical problem but : |
| 14 | Another chapter in this volume ( Mullen , 1990 ) points out that the functioning of the internal market in health care is not a simple matter . |
| 15 | It can be seen , therefore , that the choice of drug is not a simple matter . |
| 16 | However , the fact that the figure for identical twins is not 100 per cent makes it clear that schizophrenia is not a simple inherited metabolic disorder . |
| 17 | But the situation at the beginning was not a simple one : for a start , the interesting and convoluted Grade II listed building in Eye , Suffolk , that Kate and her husband Peter had acquired was distinctly derelict . |
| 18 | It is not a simple matter to apply Piaget 's ideas to reading . |
| 19 | If the ‘ mirror ’ is not a simple reflection , it will be a dream-like metaphor . |
| 20 | These two passages should be read again and again before returning to the rest of the text , which is illuminated by them ; and it then becomes clear that the poem is a work of theory , and not a simple narrative of fact . |
| 21 | However , this is not a simple case of total censorship or heavy government control . |
| 22 | The explosion was not a simple three-dimensional one . |
| 23 | The introduction of human practice as a mediation in the production of ideology explains why it is not a simple reflection ( albeit distorted or inverted ) that can be decoded to reveal the essential relations of the material sphere . |
| 24 | While it is true , as Table 5.1 showed , that the distribution of elderly people between different types of household is strongly correlated to their age , the link between household type and age is not a simple causal one . |
| 25 | As we have seen in previous items in this series , in the early days , photography was not a simple matter away from the studio . |
| 26 | The pattern was not a simple and consistent move towards concentration , either of titles or of circulation . |
| 27 | But interpreting the words of a statute is often not a simple matter , and an ouster clause will often be capable of being given more than one meaning . |
| 28 | It was , indeed , ‘ not a simple time ’ . |
| 29 | Becoming a hooligan within the Rowdies group is not a simple matter . |
| 30 | As Jaggar ( 1983 ) points out , this is not a simple process of incorporating the neglected experience : ‘ a theory may require that we revise even the description of the world on which the theory itself is based ’ ( p. 381 ) . |