Example sentences of "[not/n't] simply [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , elite theory community power studies argue by contrast that national elites do not simply float in a disconnected way above the vast mass of secondary issues which compose the domestic politics of liberal democracies . |
| 2 | It 's a place where the opinions of parents are taken seriously and they are not simply placed in a passive role operating only on the school 's terms . |
| 3 | But this time , once in a millenium , they do not simply stand outside a lighted window , looking in at what they 've lost . |
| 4 | Individual employees are not simply regarded as a functional cog in the wheel . |
| 5 | Of course , a set of policies on soil conservation was not simply determined by a few major economic and political interests of colonial powers alone . |
| 6 | The best are those that do not simply rely on a historical setting , but encourage historical skills , evaluation and understanding . |
| 7 | So far as the actual patterns of support are concerned , one can say more confidently that these have not simply declined from a high point , but have undergone various changes and fluctuations , according to the circumstances under which people lived . |
| 8 | They did not simply react in a uniform manner to the experience of heat . |
| 9 | But if one is not fundamentalist ( and not simply working as a literary critic ) then there are questions which need to be brought to the text . |
| 10 | In May 1982 Britain tried to force concessions by delaying a review of CAP prices , but was defeated by a majority vote of the other members , an event which called into question the Luxembourg Compromise and showed that Thatcher could not simply act as a new de Gaulle . |
| 11 | There is a good deal of rhetoric in this field , and as regards higher education institutions , the increased ( self- ) interest in mature students has been prompted partly by the decline in the 18-year-old age-group by about one-third between 1982 and 1995 ; although for various reasons that decline does not simply translate into a comparable decline in intake ( Fulton 1981 ) . |