Example sentences of "[pers pn] may simply be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the junction box method of wiring , you may simply be able to re-use the cable for the new light fitting . |
| 2 | At other times you may simply be looking for a good story with situations and characters which will interest and entertain your students . |
| 3 | Or she may simply be trying to snub President Cory Aquino , who refuses to allow Marcos back , even through he is dead ; and has barred Imelda too . |
| 4 | She may simply be sitting down there contentedly having a good meal , or sleeping one off . |
| 5 | We may simply be afraid , and the horse picks it up too . |
| 6 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 7 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 8 | BABIES who suddenly become bad-tempered and restless may not be sick — they may simply be suffering growing pains . |
| 9 | Or they may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 10 | Some groups of signs on the Phaistos Disc are repeated ; these may be refrains , suggesting a song or hymn , or they may simply be recurring words . |
| 11 | Deuchar notes that : ‘ In spontaneous speech , sentences are often difficult to delimit : they may simply be unfinished , because the knowledge of the addressee makes completion unnecessary , or they may not be discernible as units at all . ’ |
| 12 | Ideological preferences are similarly of little use , since they may simply be the way in which politicians present their views in order to gain public acceptance . |
| 13 | Often they result from particularly stressful circumstances but they may simply be a moment of carelessness . |
| 14 | It may simply be a normal problem which a minor tackle or bait adjustment can deal with . |
| 15 | For the present , it may simply be observed that Szekeres and Sbytov had omitted to include these cases . |
| 16 | It may be that the patient feels gratified by someone taking his or her illness seriously , or it may simply be the power of suggestion — because they feel they are being offered a cure , they actually begin to get better . |
| 17 | On this basis , if one meal is eaten and the dish emptied , and then the next meal is refused , it may simply be that the cat is not yet ready for its next ‘ kill ’ . |
| 18 | It may simply be that more people are taking advantage of higher social security benefits to spend more time searching for suitable jobs . |
| 19 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 20 | For example , if a company occupies a self-contained building then it may simply be looking at sub-letting a surplus floor or floors to achieve its objective . |
| 21 | If you think that these approaches will make matters worse , it may simply be better to ask for a transfer or move to new pastures . |
| 22 | The reason for this trans-cultural similarity of language is not known ; it may simply be that ‘ m ’ is the easiest of all the consonants to produce . |
| 23 | It may simply be the result of little domestic refuse being left around the farm ; cereals may not have been processed there , or , if they were , not in a place likely to have resulted in their being burnt and therefore preserved . |
| 24 | It may simply be used as a taunt which is deemed provocative and so portrayed as one of several triggering actions for the killing . |
| 25 | It may simply be a fundamental divergence of attitude . |
| 26 | With Summer 's Last Will it may simply be , as Christopher Palmer suggests in his notes , that its moment , its ‘ right time ’ , has come at last . |
| 27 | It may simply be said that it is just a ‘ fact ’ that Jesus was male , and that therefore priests should be . ) |
| 28 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 29 | Foregrounding may be QUALITATIVE , ie deviation from the language code itself — a breach of some rule or convention of English — or it may simply be QUANTITATIVE , ie deviance from some expected frequency . |
| 30 | It may simply be inefficiency at this level , but it could be worse . |