Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] they simply " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether because they have genuinely changed their political philosophy or because they simply realize that they will never get away with it in a modern pluralistic society , for whatever reason , conservative Protestants have preferred to follow the democratic inheritance of the Reformation . |
| 2 | Whether the dolphins ' population has declined or whether they simply avoid the more contaminated areas and have moved to remoter regions is not clear . |
| 3 | Whether the weavers of today are aware of the symbolic meaning of their designs — or whether they simply reproduce them out of a general reverence for tradition — is a matter of considerable debate , but there is no doubt that the symbolic potency of nomadic designs is one of the major reasons for their growing popularity in the West . |
| 4 | We tried to hope that they were going to release Franky and that they simply did n't want the rest of us to get angry and depressed . |
| 5 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 6 | The tend to be unappreciative of the farm worker 's skills , not out of malice , but because they simply lack the detailed knowledge of agriculture on which to base a judgement . |