Example sentences of "it [was/were] simply a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 2 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 3 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 4 | According to Buried Alive , the 1973 biography of the singer by Myra Friedman , Joplin pleaded with Seth to force her to stop taking heroin , but he thought it was simply a play for more attention . |
| 5 | ( For some it was simply a road to oblivion . ) |
| 6 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 7 | My reference to it was simply a tease , and all the more tempting given Victor 's known sensitivity on the point . |
| 8 | But then he exploded into life again and it was simply a question of when Carr would go down . |
| 9 | In this respect , of course , the Palace was no different from any other house of the period : It was simply a question of scale . |
| 10 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 11 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 12 | After Pearl Harbor Rhee felt that it was simply a question of time before Korea regained her independence and he could assume power . |
| 13 | The case decides nothing new about exclusion of confessions under section 78 : it was simply a question of whether the judge , having correctly identified the relevant breaches of PACE and Code C , had reached an untenable decision with regard to the exercise of his discretion . |
| 14 | Then it was simply a question of following step 1 then 2 then 3 etc . |
| 15 | He said all the independent surveys agreed there would be some job losses it was simply a question of how many . |
| 16 | For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best . |
| 17 | At first there was no grand plan , it was simply a case of choosing who was around or who had been recommended by her new friends from Vogue . |
| 18 | But it was simply a case of ‘ this is what I 've got , I like it and I 'm not going to get rid of it ’ . ’ |
| 19 | It was simply a case of going , going and then gone for the Information Technology manager as Wimpey Hobbs ’ Alice Richards — a trained first aider — got to work with the razor . |
| 20 | It was simply a case of striking a better balance between work and play , and taking more of an interest in the social side of life . |
| 21 | Before that it was simply a part of the open fields of Great Bowden , a village a mile or two away . |
| 22 | Scandal came easy to him , it was simply a way of life , a way of raising himself above the ordinariness of his upbringing in Fife . |
| 23 | Eliot 's writings on poetry do not contain a systematic theory , but on two matters of principle he adopted a stance strongly opposed to that of Richards : he refused to accept either that poetry consisted in the use of emotive language , or that it was simply a vehicle for communicating the author 's experience to the reader . |
| 24 | It was simply a conversation in which the group was significant only in so far as any communication requires two or more people to support it . |
| 25 | Even his body language told her nothing , or else it was simply a message she could n't decipher . |
| 26 | As for BAT , one contributor responded by arguing that it was simply a device established by the government to deflect community criticism . |
| 27 | Fireman Ken Horn said : ‘ It was simply a miracle that we did not have a very serious casualty list . ’ |
| 28 | She might have known that all of her efforts would end like this ; it was simply a truth that she had n't been wanting to face . |
| 29 | In reality it was simply a recognition that the government had abandoned any serious attempt to keep monetary growth within targets . |
| 30 | It was simply a profile of someone in office . |