Example sentences of "is simply a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Will is simply a clear statement about how your money and possessions are to be divided when you die . |
| 2 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 3 | Recovery is simply a matter of relaxing the backward pressure on the stick and using the controls quite normally to bring the wings level and to ease out of the dive . |
| 4 | It is simply a question of what sort of world we wish to inhabit — one of predictability , or one where the outcome is unknown to us and thus includes an element of self-exploration . |
| 5 | We 're sure Moby 's behaviour is simply a phase . |
| 6 | To a foreign correspondent covering the British election for a foreign audience , whether a party leader appears energetic or decisive is simply a matter of objective reporting : a perception . |
| 7 | ‘ The majority of a designer 's work is simply a rational process . |
| 8 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 9 | There are Turks and Israelis who passionately consider themselves Europeans but there are Muslims and Jews for whom Europe is simply a hostile place where they live . |
| 10 | Perhaps America is simply a more violent society after all . |
| 11 | Gregg Petersmeyer , director of the White House 's Office for National Service , denies that Mr Bush 's rhetoric is simply a ruse to allow the government to shed expensive responsibilities . |
| 12 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 13 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 14 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 15 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 16 | The frantic search for trainers past is simply a reaction against the shit trainers syndrome ! |
| 17 | It is simply a measure of the energy supplied by any food or drink . |
| 18 | Perhaps your first bar is simply a prelude to many more ? |
| 19 | A baseline in this case is simply a complete record , a type of diary , of your usual eating behaviour . |
| 20 | Surely ‘ prudish ’ is simply a natural desire for privacy and separation which is an essential part of growing up ; and surely having your parents writing about your breast development in a baby book is not very likely to make you feel unselfconscious about it ! |
| 21 | We have completed a great deal and the team knows exactly how a thing must be done , so it is simply a question of completing the sequence , designing our record packaging , and also seeing how the market is developing for the video players and monitors . |
| 22 | But that past tense , ‘ overlapped ’ , is simply a necessary fiction . |
| 23 | The masts may seem unsightly to those unused to them , but I am sure it is simply a matter of getting accustomed . |
| 24 | Or do they admit that the Rural Scheme is simply a rate-paid organisation to amuse well-educated people in their years of retirement . |
| 25 | Charging the batteries is simply a matter of pushing the pack into a holder attached to the charger . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A crystal grows , to be sure , but each part of a crystal is simply a repetition of every other part ; the same monotonous pattern of atoms , repeated over and over . |
| 28 | In many others there is simply a reference to a grandfather 's occupation . |
| 29 | A running calendar is simply a tool to guide you in the direction you want to go . |
| 30 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |