Example sentences of "[subord] simply a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 2 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 3 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 4 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 5 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 6 | As Jack Sattel has observed , the fabled ‘ inexpressiveness ’ of men can not usefully be described as simply a correlate of their masculine gender role . |
| 7 | Eliot saw the savage here as simply a base from which to start in the critique of the modern . |
| 8 | Certain critics like Hourcade and Allard , who did not realize the importance of what Picasso and Braque were doing , continued to take a broad view of Cubism as simply a return to a more sober , classical form of art , and thus to include within the movement a large number of artists who were not strictly speaking Cubist but had been slightly influenced by the style . |
| 9 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 10 | Antiracists , on the other hand , will have to move beyond their reductive conceptions of culture and their fear of cultural difference as simply a source of division and weakness in the struggle against racism . |