Example sentences of "[noun sg] was simply [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Edinburgh panel decided , however , that HLA alloimmunisation was simply a laboratory end point and that the evidence was inconclusive that filtered blood prevented platelet refractoriness and bleeding . |
| 2 | But it was also a mark of his belief that gossip was simply a waste of time . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that the defendant rider 's failure to control his horse was simply an error of judgment which did not amount to negligence . |
| 4 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 5 | This publicity is a recent development , but to tell you the truth , when I was a teenager date rape was simply a fact of life . |
| 6 | In Roman law , a marriage was simply an agreement between two free parties . |
| 7 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 8 | The uncomprehending response of some professional librarians to the question of retrieval systems in the library resource centre has shown the underlying belief that what was at issue was simply the addition of new formats . |
| 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 | For Mosley the lesson of the First World War was simply the necessity to keep faith with those who had paid the ultimate price . |
| 12 | The specialities of the counter were overcooked pastries and undercooked rolls , and nobody was buying ; the place was simply a focus of life at this hour of night , in an area where nothing much else was happening . |
| 13 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 14 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 15 | If this process was properly carried out as a matter of public law , then the consequential private law right of the plaintiff was simply a right to the accommodation which the council had decided to be suitable . |
| 16 | The time when scruples about extrapolating from studies on animals to humans would have seemed absurd , because it was widely held that basic behavioural processes were common to all species and that the complexity of behaviour was simply a function of the capacity of the organism to learn , is long since past . |
| 17 | But more careful observation showed that the behaviour was simply an imitation of the trainer 's actions , combined with an association of certain ‘ symbols ’ or shapes with particular things — nothing more than the association of the sight or shape of a banana plant with bananas , combined with a sequence of actions required to pluck the banana or to reach the location of the plant in the wild . |
| 18 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Finally — a very neat blow at any remaining opposition — he pointed out that only people who were mentally ill allowed themselves to be guided by ‘ persuasions of immediate intercourse with the deity ’ , so that prophetic or bardic inspiration was simply a delusion . |
| 21 | ‘ At first I thought art was simply a matter of reproducing what I saw ; but one day I saw a reproduction of Piero della Francesca 's Pietà , and I suddenly realised that there was a huge spiritual element in painting . |
| 22 | The Corporation considered the £2,400 price was simply an attempt by the company to exhort public money . |
| 23 | Like many people , he believed controlling the spasticity was simply a matter of trying harder . |
| 24 | It was true that Franco had achieved his " final military objectives " , but , as far as his social and political objectives were concerned , the military victory was simply the beginning . |
| 25 | Duguit took the view that the state was simply an apparatus for performing certain functions . |
| 26 | Implicit in these works is the belief that national developments were unproblematically reflected at the local level , that the national was simply an aggregate of the local : ‘ There is a sense in which the achievements and failings of Labourism at the national level are mirrored at the local level , a sense in which constituency Labour parties are a microcosm of the national Labour Party ’ ( Forester 1976 p 71 ) . |
| 27 | From then on the most prominent change leading to the human brain was simply an increase in the area of the sheet of cells which forms the neocortex or neopallium . |
| 28 | Firstly the probabilistic analyser was specifically constructed for the task whereas the rule-based analyser was simply a modification of an existing system . |
| 29 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |
| 30 | All this musing was simply a way of deflecting the inevitable moment when she had to face her . |