Example sentences of "they may simply be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | BABIES who suddenly become bad-tempered and restless may not be sick — they may simply be suffering growing pains . |
| 4 | Or they may simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Often they result from particularly stressful circumstances but they may simply be a moment of carelessness . |