Example sentences of "can [not/n't] simply [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 2 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 3 | A ‘ message ’ Christology can not simply consist in a message , a message which exists independently of the person who preached it . |
| 4 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |
| 5 | Denied anger has to go somewhere ; it can not simply vanish into the air . |