Example sentences of "[be] simply an " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some they 're simply an engaging fantasy , but for others they create a secret world that can last a lifetime . |
| 2 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 3 | In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity . |
| 4 | But if this new development were to be simply an aid to better assignments and projects then it would not be remarkable , because library instruction which is project-related and project-inspired , is not unusual , though it is less common than the separate library lesson . |
| 5 | If so , will the fabled Fountain of Youth be simply an eradicator of nomadic DNA ? |
| 6 | Of course , she may be simply an accomplice . |
| 7 | Their navigational system may be simply an urge to move continuously into water that is minimally cooler , and they may also be able to orientate themselves from the direction of the wave surge and the pattern of ripples on the water-surface . |
| 8 | The celebration of working-class culture on its own can be simply an acceptance of oppression , a refusal to recognise the often racist and male nature of that culture , a romantic blindness to rapid change in the social composition of the working class . |
| 9 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 10 | If it is natural conditions of existence which are the basis of human history , this does not mean that human society and concepts are simply an automatic product or reflection of physical existence , as Feuerback and other ‘ vulgar ’ materialists seem to imply . |
| 11 | The questions listed are simply an indication of some of the key information you may require in order to plan sensibly ahead . |
| 12 | The discourses of science and philosophy , for example , which appear to be entirely directed towards some external referent and whose intelligibility would seem to depend on their transparency , are simply an effect produced by language itself . |
| 13 | How could it have been simply an accident ? |
| 14 | ( 1987 ) concluded that there was no significant difference in overall dementia prevalence between the sexes ; the increased rates among women were simply an artefact of the greater age of women studied . |
| 15 | The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard . |
| 16 | It 's simply an activity which has been a little overestimated and is regarded as something of major importance . |
| 17 | my Lord I do n't think that 's different , erm it 's not the restriction , one saying that the res the , the , it 's not restricting competition it 's simply an entry condition , but it does n't have the effect of taking anybody outside of the market who should be there |
| 18 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 19 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 20 | In this case , the stylistic promiscuity of an Ian Pollard or a Nash is simply an exceptionally accurate reflection of their culture . |
| 21 | He argues that , far from the State being the prime mover of history , the State itself is simply an aspect of a particular type of society . |
| 22 | Too many people have forgotten that a bid , even one opposed by directors , is simply an offer to buy shares , not a struggle to the death . |
| 23 | Our idea of gold is simply an idea of some of its observable properties , which are supposed to flow from its real essence . |
| 24 | Any particular finite extension is simply an idea in our minds , and can not have more parts than the finite number we perceive it to have . |
| 25 | Berkeley held , as we have seen , that an abstract general idea is simply an idea of a particular thing used to stand for other such ideas ; and it is clear that what Hume applauds is Berkeley 's refusal to accept any ideas other than those of immediate and concrete experience . |
| 26 | The Labour party has consistently taken the view that the monarchy is simply an irrelevance . |
| 27 | We are , of course , familiar with a heavily armed Britannia brandishing a trident and ruling the waves , but her development in this way is simply an indication of Britain 's preoccupation with military conquest since the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | This account is not , however , intended as a report of the Arkleton Trust Advisory Committee , but is simply an informal record prepared by one of its members . |
| 29 | The separation of skills into these groupings is simply an organisational device . |
| 30 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |