Example sentences of "was simply [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alehouse in its most basic form was simply a domestic building where ale was sold to generate additional income for the household , although David Lupton observed in 1632 that the alehouse keeper ‘ defies a wine tavern as an upstart outlandish fellow , and suspects the wine to be poisoned . |
| 2 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 3 | ‘ There was simply a hope that somehow in the future things would get better because of this enormous expenditure . ’ |
| 4 | What we were seeing was simply a ‘ rationalisation ’ of the collection , a ‘ refining process . ’ |
| 5 | Rachel , on the other hand , thought that tidiness was simply a moral necessity , along with generosity , thoughtfulness , good manners and clarity . |
| 6 | His job as Prince of Wales , after all , was simply a job of waiting and preparing to become sovereign . |
| 7 | The fourth Test in Trinidad was simply a repeat of the first . |
| 8 | According to Buried Alive , the 1973 biography of the singer by Myra Friedman , Joplin pleaded with Seth to force her to stop taking heroin , but he thought it was simply a play for more attention . |
| 9 | The question was simply a put-up job , Mueller having previously primed both Klepner and Muldoon . |
| 10 | To most Western observers the Spanish Civil War was simply a conflict between the supporters of the Republican government and Franco 's fascist rebels , supported by Germany and Italy . |
| 11 | It was simply a dull dot on a map . |
| 12 | This was now ; there was a reason for everything ; it was simply a matter of courage and patience . |
| 13 | Detached from its energy source , it was simply a piece of dead metal . |
| 14 | In such a view , ‘ Catholic ’ was simply a term which described part of the population . |
| 15 | At the last fence Crisp , though he walloped the gorse into the air , still held a substantial lead , but Red Rum — with twenty-three pounds less on his back — was charging along now , and it was simply a matter of whether Crisp could survive the desperately long run to the winning post . |
| 16 | Now it was simply a matter of whether the embarrassment of a Foinavon victory could be headed off , but he was thirty lengths in the lead turning away from the Canal Turn and showed no signs of giving up . |
| 17 | He apologised to readers and to Philips Dictation Systems : ‘ Could of was simply a typesetting error that slipped passed the keenest eyes ’ , he wrote . |
| 18 | But then he exploded into life again and it was simply a question of when Carr would go down . |
| 19 | SIR — Maurice Weaver is wrong to suggest that James Callaghan 's phrase ‘ Crisis , what crisis ? ’ , which did so much to bring down Labour in 1979 , was simply a misleading paraphrase by the tabloids ( April 6 ) . |
| 20 | I 'm all in favour of impressionistic narratives , with fast cutting and flashbacks galore , but this was simply a mess . |
| 21 | Nobody trusted the geologists ' claims that this was simply a series of experiments to see whether the underground structure was suitable in principle : everybody believed that the waste dump would be excavated under their patch . |
| 22 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 23 | In this respect , of course , the Palace was no different from any other house of the period : It was simply a question of scale . |
| 24 | He agreed with Doll that statistical significance was simply a ‘ guide to thought ’ rather than an absolute standard . |
| 25 | For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best . |
| 26 | Liberation from this feeling , he felt , was simply a state of mind . |
| 27 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 28 | Like many people , he believed controlling the spasticity was simply a matter of trying harder . |
| 29 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 30 | The fork was simply a military development of the agricultural implement . |