Example sentences of "simply [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are some way yet from Autumn but that is no reason not to consider the way we can change colours on the needlebed to use up left over yarn or simply make a splash with colours we 've always wanted to knit together . |
| 2 | But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population . |
| 3 | So there 's no element in this in terms of a developing additional service , it 's simply channelling the funding of that service to the local authority , where previously it went to the D S S. |
| 4 | Simply building a wall around the top of the well breaks the cycle . |
| 5 | The normal interpretation of ( 165 ) does not imply that everyone actually pays his taxes : the sentence simply evokes a state of obligation in which every individual finds himself by virtue of the law . |
| 6 | Reading here simply evokes the realization of the event and no more . |
| 7 | As the law is complex to apply in some cases where the notice period needs to be calculated and perhaps added to the three months limit or , as in the Sen case , the adviser simply got the calculation of the three months wrong , the claim should be presented and the Tribunal asked to consider the facts before exercising its discretion . |
| 8 | It simply agreed a timetable for producing a single currency by , at the latest , 1999 — with or without Britain . |
| 9 | You may ‘ see ’ the music in shapes and colours or you may simply experience a feeling of peace or deep emotion . |
| 10 | Self-build co-operatives are typically born in one of two ways : The private enterprise approach simply involves a group of people who set up their own company through which to take out a collective loan . |
| 11 | This simply involves the addition of some household salt either manually or automatically . |
| 12 | Marxists often imply that Marxism simply involves the introduction of a historical framework — ‘ always historicize ! ’ — but this assumption can only be made , according to Althusser , because of ‘ the confusion that surrounds the concept of history ’ : |
| 13 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 14 | Besides the fact that Mittwoch scuttles her own argument by citing examples such as No newspaper would dare publish his denial where " dare shows modal characteristics precisely in governing the bare infinitive … , yet it is governed by another modal " ( p. 128 ) , and the fact that treating to as a modal auxiliary is in itself highly implausible , this analysis simply begs the question of whether there is a semantic motivation behind the absence of to here . |
| 15 | In the case where the long elects for cash settlement , he simply receives the sum of money in his margin account as final settlement . |
| 16 | The argument would now tend to be that a child refusing to be toilet trained is not simply enjoying the experience for its own sake . |
| 17 | It is possible to question the force of such evidence — perhaps school has no independent effect and we are simply seeing a side-effect of class-biased recruitment . |
| 18 | The usual ( but wrong ) method of calculation would simply compare the value of an average sale in the two years , viz £700 in year one and £440 in year two , and conclude that the index dropped . |
| 19 | There was talk of developing a ‘ clean ’ bomb with little fall-out , a chimera at that time , which simply produced a lot of Carbon-14 which does not decay for literally thousands of years . |
| 20 | There is no refuge for us in simply maintaining the level of integration at which we have now arrived . |
| 21 | The Swiss company Acher Partners admitted its involvement , but claimed that it had simply arranged the contract on behalf of Progresso of Italy , while the latter denied any involvement in illegal activities . |
| 22 | According to colleagues , he has been seriously complaining for years about the parasitic passivity of arts television , which simply points a camera at a performance conceived and organised by someone else . |
| 23 | They simply made a raid on the first restaurant they came to and gave the proprietor fits . |
| 24 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 25 | This simply slows the flow of traffic and causes unnecessary and frustrating delays . |
| 26 | Between the wars the aim of housing legislation was simply to stimulate the construction of as many houses as possible in rural areas ; since 1945 the aim has been to control the number of houses in rural areas as part of overall planning policies designed to contain the growth of urban sprawl , prevent the loss of good agricultural land and protect the visual quality of the countryside . |
| 27 | The term ‘ species ’ simply denotes a population of interbreeding organisms which have a ‘ pool ’ of genes in common . |
| 28 | It also expressed concern that the proposals simply passed the problem onto another business sector — the exempt international investor . |
| 29 | The art of counselling is to do one 's work professionally with respect for the dignity of the sufferer and then simply trust the process of the 12 Step programme and the effectiveness of the group , rather than try -to manipulate , control or fix . |
| 30 | These were largely voices in the wilderness : the politicians , administrative civil servants and managers in the industry simply lacked an understanding of the common language of economic discourse which was essential to a rational analysis of energy prices . |