Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] simply [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
2 | It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not . |
3 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
4 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
5 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
6 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
7 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
8 | When , for example , the BBC began in 1922 , a great deal more than simply the use of the new technology had to be established . |
9 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
10 | JUNE 's CD Review will feature ZUBIN MEHTA ; more than simply the conductor of the ‘ Three Tenors ’ concert , Mehta 's work in Romantic opera remains a significant undercurrent in his career . |
11 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
12 | Now , those of a pluralist persuasion may be tempted to suggest that the left-inclined critique of their perspective is itself ideological and simply the product of bigoted minds disaffected from the established order and inattentive to the facts . |