Example sentences of "[be] simply [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of the present problem with Bosnia there is n't a single er advanced industrial country that wishes to get engaged in ground warfare in Yugoslavia because there would be simply no point in it and any casualty er would be seen as a waste , as a throwing away of resources and you 'd have many casualties it 's argued . |
| 2 | Gandhi claims to be simply a seeker after Truth , ceaselessly searching for it , occasionally having glimpses of it , yet not finding it . |
| 3 | However , there is a tendency for the content of the packages to be simply a transfer of printed teaching matter to the computer medium , without capitalizing on the extra advantages of the medium , for example , making full use of its interactive teaching possibilities . |
| 4 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 5 | If all is well , it will be simply a matter of lowering the model gently to the ground from the low level hover position . |
| 6 | However , from a social action perspective socialisation can never be simply a matter of internalisation of fixed social rules . |
| 7 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 8 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 9 | After background reading and talks with experts ( possibly the sponsors of the study ) the initial pilot could be simply a number of lengthy unstructured interviews . |
| 10 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 11 | Alternatively , it could be simply a collection of modules which it is temporarily convenient to modify at the same time . |
| 12 | On lesser occasions the reply will appear as an answer to a ‘ planted ’ parliamentary question or be simply a letter to the chairman of a committee . |
| 13 | It could n't be simply The History of Wimbledon ( there was a book with that title — it did n't matter that it had been published nearly two hundred years ago ) . |
| 14 | Ergonomics can not be simply the adaptation of technology to suit invariant properties of ‘ man ’ , people change with technology . |
| 15 | the purpose of life in Western society will no longer be simply the satisfaction of physical needs . |
| 16 | Linguistics ought to be simply the study of language , and if the pragmatic , cognitive and procedural dimensions of language study which have become apparent in recent years mean that linguistics ( as an institution and a discipline ) has to take these dimensions on board , then so be it . |
| 17 | In other words , their alliances may be simply the produce of shared material circumstances . |
| 18 | As for truth , Epicurus , rather like Hobbes centuries later , took sense-perception to be simply the effect of objects on our material souls . |
| 19 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 20 | If so , will the fabled Fountain of Youth be simply an eradicator of nomadic DNA ? |
| 21 | The celebration of working-class culture on its own can be simply an acceptance of oppression , a refusal to recognise the often racist and male nature of that culture , a romantic blindness to rapid change in the social composition of the working class . |
| 22 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 23 | In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity . |