Example sentences of "[be] simply [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you 're simply a brash and brassy singer — nothing else . ’ |
| 2 | Friendly rivalry is encouraged between the 12 groups and the children learn chants such as ‘ we 're simply the best , better than all the rest ’ . |
| 3 | We 're simply the best says classy Collie |
| 4 | To some they 're simply an engaging fantasy , but for others they create a secret world that can last a lifetime . |
| 5 | That there is no popular opposition is testimony not only to how successful they have been , but also to the fact that there appears to be simply no desirable alternative : the British just do not like their politicians enough to want them made head of state . |
| 6 | Think of the present problem with Bosnia there is n't a single er advanced industrial country that wishes to get engaged in ground warfare in Yugoslavia because there would be simply no point in it and any casualty er would be seen as a waste , as a throwing away of resources and you 'd have many casualties it 's argued . |
| 7 | So-called , because , except for Pretoria , no one in the world recognises the sovereignty of the Transkei , which is otherwise perceived to be simply a geographical region in the south-eastern corner of South Africa . |
| 8 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 9 | He argued in his essay On Liberty that State schools , with a State control over the curriculum , would be simply a means of producing a docile and bien pensant population , moulded in accordance with the wishes of the government of the day . |
| 10 | However , there is a tendency for the content of the packages to be simply a transfer of printed teaching matter to the computer medium , without capitalizing on the extra advantages of the medium , for example , making full use of its interactive teaching possibilities . |
| 11 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 12 | Gandhi claims to be simply a seeker after Truth , ceaselessly searching for it , occasionally having glimpses of it , yet not finding it . |
| 13 | If all is well , it will be simply a matter of lowering the model gently to the ground from the low level hover position . |
| 14 | Some people prefer to hold the script ; others like to read off a lectern , which can be simply a tray propped up on a couple of books . |
| 15 | But he must never be simply a ‘ clown ’ . |
| 16 | As Midgley makes clear , discussions of natural sex differences can never be simply a neutral issue , even if it is an empirical one , since one still has to consider what consequences should follow from the differences one has discovered . |
| 17 | However , from a social action perspective socialisation can never be simply a matter of internalisation of fixed social rules . |
| 18 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |
| 19 | The mechanism is then considered to be simply a black box function generator . |
| 20 | On lesser occasions the reply will appear as an answer to a ‘ planted ’ parliamentary question or be simply a letter to the chairman of a committee . |
| 21 | It should be emphasised that occasional drug use may be simply a " normal " pattern of behaviour corresponding to " normal " drunkenness and not necessarily he a sign of delinquency , depravity or addictive disease . |
| 22 | There would be simply a walkout and the men would stay out until management either conceded to listen to one of their representatives and resolved the matter then and there . |
| 23 | In the context of language learning , positive feedback could be evidence that one 's efforts at mastering a language are not in vain and that progress towards one 's goal is being made ; it could be simply a correct response in the language laboratory or praise from the teacher . |
| 24 | It may be a preliminary to higher levels of spending or may be simply a shift in portfolio preferences towards more liquid forms of wealth . |
| 25 | These data suggest that HPV-16 may play an active part in colorectal carcinogenesis and may not be simply a casual DNA in transformed cells . |
| 26 | Alternatively , it could be simply a collection of modules which it is temporarily convenient to modify at the same time . |
| 27 | After background reading and talks with experts ( possibly the sponsors of the study ) the initial pilot could be simply a number of lengthy unstructured interviews . |
| 28 | As for truth , Epicurus , rather like Hobbes centuries later , took sense-perception to be simply the effect of objects on our material souls . |
| 29 | He now declared the aim of the NSDAP to be simply the ‘ annihilation and extirpation of the Marxist world view ’ , and during 1923 , as the notion of a heroic , final struggle between two opposed Weltanschauungen seemed to grow in his mind , the Jews played a less overt role in Hitler 's public statements , whereas the sole , mortal enemy of the Nazi Movement was now proclaimed to be Marxism . |
| 30 | It could n't be simply The History of Wimbledon ( there was a book with that title — it did n't matter that it had been published nearly two hundred years ago ) . |