Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a simple [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore no jewellery except for a simple band around her wedding finger . |
| 2 | We can therefore anticipate — and this brings us to our second theme — that the answers we seek actually lie elsewhere than in a simple equation between creative and mad thought . |
| 3 | As we have already noted , the explanation for the post-war uniformity of local politics perhaps lies elsewhere than in a simple appeal to non-local forces . |
| 4 | It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation . |
| 5 | The seller was liable even though by a simple process of warming , the bulk could have been made soft . |