Example sentences of "[adv] simply [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people . |
| 2 | It also served to show that the Hundred Years War was no longer simply a conflict between England and France : others were being caught up in it , too . |
| 3 | Pollution is no longer simply a product of local industry ; it often moves in continental drifts as weather patterns change . |
| 4 | There is a corresponding and no less seminal change in painting : the abandonment of the single ground line on which all figures rest ; a change which makes painting no longer simply the decoration of a flat surface but at the same time a feigned window on the three-dimensional world . |
| 5 | From then until Franco 's death in 1975 , it was no longer simply the victory in the Civil War that was invoked as the basis for Franco 's right to rule , but his role as the provider of material wealth and prosperity . |
| 6 | Though all our knowledge ‘ is in the senses or derived from them ’ , it is not always simply a matter of sensory information . |
| 7 | IT WAS always simply a matter of time before full back Alan Tait followed his former boss Doug Laughton to Leeds . |
| 8 | In general we can write where n is the amount of substance in moles ( or more simply the number of moles ) , m is the mass of the substance in grams and M is the molar mass . |
| 9 | In contrast to the national newspapers , where particular themes , such as the abuse of professional trust , are usually evident , the local newspapers include cases which are much more simply the product of routine court reporting . |
| 10 | In contrast to the functionalist , then , who sees the capacity of the human being to communicate as simply a vehicle for the ‘ activation ’ of imposed cultural rules , for the action theorist this capacity is the essential creative ingredient in social life . |
| 11 | In Le Pietre e il Sale ( Stones and Salt 1986 ) , Palandri tells a story of adolescent love and adult corruption in a manner which generated mixed notices in Italy , many seeing it as simply a return to the ‘ shopworn ’ . |
| 12 | Some saw it as simply a matter of making the books balance , an additional chore or responsibility in an already busy schedule . |
| 13 | Even if only for that reason , to regard it as simply an expression of industrial grievances is ludicrously inadequate . |
| 14 | The single most important difference between written and spoken language is that spoken language contains many incomplete sentences , and is often simply a sequence of phrases or clauses . |
| 15 | Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization . |
| 16 | While such arguments are now simply a rehearsal for what will follow publication of the Green Paper , they serve to illustrate the far-reaching consequences of changes to the way roads are funded . |
| 17 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 18 | In the earliest versions , which date from 1959 — 60 , Gironella turns her into a sort of rag doll ; perhaps never more than a well-dressed shell , she is now simply a collage of fragments of coarse , torn cloth that appear to be pasted down with thick smears of paint ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 19 | The problem with these abandoned buildings is rarely simply a matter of finance . |
| 20 | Anticlericalism elsewhere was sometimes simply a matter of anti-Roman pinpricks , as in Great Britain , when agitation arose about aristocratic conversions to Rome and the British Reformation Society could protest to the government over the appointment of a Roman Catholic viceroy of India and a Roman Catholic lord chamberlain . |
| 21 | He says ( with believable sincerity ) it is quite simply a projection of his genuine self . |
| 22 | Unlike gas and electricity which have other uses and purposes , solid fuel is predominantly used to provide heating , and VAT is quite simply a tax on warmth . |
| 23 | They 're quite simply a collection of directives . |
| 24 | ‘ Our concern is quite simply the welfare of the children , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 25 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 26 | In some cases the starting point for a set of language materials has been quite simply the power of the medium to tell a good story . |
| 27 | Gravitational waves are quite simply the vibration of space–time itself . |
| 28 | Using example A , it is not then simply a question of allocating each former partner a salary of £48,168 ( i.e. £60,000–£11,832 ) . |
| 29 | It is then simply a question of using the tables to avoid oversight . |
| 30 | Neither was this simply a feature of desert spirituality . |