Example sentences of "simply [to-vb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At no time is it sufficient simply to extrapolate from current costs and patterns of use to the future . |
| 2 | Thus on Amon Hen Frodo puts on the Ring , contrary to Gandalf 's injunction , simply to escape from Boromir , and the narrator ratifies his decision : ‘ There was only one thing to do ’ . |
| 3 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 4 | To be decent — an underrated public virtue of bad times — is simply to refrain from behaving badly when one has the incentive to be bad . |
| 5 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |