Example sentences of "[is] simply that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 'll remember that that the definition of gating is simply that channels switch between open and closed states , they gate open or closed . |
| 2 | One in seven primary-school children now suffers from asthma — but the Government 's response is simply that children who are at risk should be kept indoors when air quality is poor . |
| 3 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |
| 4 | If the proposition we start out with is simply that men exist — which , we are told , should be more appropriately expressed as ( Ex ) x is a man — then no doubt sooner or later we shall run into Jones and will be able to proclaim the happy discovery . |
| 5 | Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ . |