Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] simply that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not simply that London Films had registered a loss of £330,000 for the fiscal year 1936 . |
| 2 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 3 | In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner . |
| 4 | It was not simply that this or that particular topic might need revision or reassessment , but , they said , ‘ It is vital for us to turn our back on academic eclecticism … , and on the tendency to turn the study of literature and language from a systematic science back once more into a miscellany of episodic and anecdotal essays ’ ( 1977 : 49 ) . |
| 5 | It was n't simply that he was managing to smile with his mouth full — a difficult enough task at the best of times — it was that his smile expressed so many real , positive qualities that it must be designed to sell something . |
| 6 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |
| 7 | It was n't simply that he felt protective towards him . |
| 8 | That objection was quite simply that the courts of this country have no power to make the order applied for . |
| 9 | It was quite simply that she had wanted to be with him . |