Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] simply [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is seen as crucial in attracting people away from the current crop of cramped top-of-the-range coupes — essential if the car is not simply to draw existing Bentley customers from the Turbo R. |
| 2 | The purpose of community intervention is not simply to observe but to ensure that treatment is sustained for those whose illness , in terms of either severity or nature , warrants this . |
| 3 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 4 | In a case where the breach is not " capable of remedy " , there is clearly no point in affording the first of these two opportunities ; the object of the notice procedure is thus simply to give the lessee the opportunity to apply for relief . |
| 5 | But many Japanese companies ' strategy is now simply to pray that the yen will fall in this fiscal year . |
| 6 | Many of the women made it clear in the interviews that their concern is not simply to get housework done in the most efficient way and the shortest possible time . |
| 7 | The duty is not simply to take reasonable care to refrain from the act or neglect , but to take reasonable care not to injure such a person by the act or neglect . |
| 8 | What Lord Denning M.R. does in the Lannon case is not simply to reject Camborne and Barnsley . |
| 9 | Throughout my last chapter I kept on emphasizing that the task of the social anthropologist in the field is not simply to observe the details of customary behaviour but to note how this behaviour serves to " express relationships " . |
| 10 | But since the object of the present cultural history is not simply to plot , from within , the development of an academic discipline , it is necessary to assess successes and failures from a different standpoint . |
| 11 | The role of the tutor is not simply to offer students an experience which leads to their being assessed at pre-existing levels of competence , but actively to assist students to enhance their skills , knowledge and behaviour . |
| 12 | The purpose is not simply to replicate earlier experiments but to provide new evidence which will help to discriminate between alternative theories and provide insights about the ways in which our understanding of choice under uncertainty might be improved . |
| 13 | The Halls ' purpose is not simply to attract musicians such as Nigel Kennedy and Courtney Pine . |
| 14 | Its purpose is not simply to help suffers to leave behind their negative destructive addictions but also to help them to become enthusiastic about positive aspects of a healthy physical , emotional and spiritual life . |
| 15 | The idea is really simply to relax people . |
| 16 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 17 | Their task is not simply to carry out a paperwork exercise . |
| 18 | The task was not simply to come to terms with Wagner 's music drama , but to reconcile his theory of it with his actual practice . |