Example sentences of "simply [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many staff felt that their involvement had simply not increased with financial devolution . |
| 2 | This approach was simply not supported by the evidence . |
| 3 | Very few had an IQ below 100 : the lower half of the ability range was simply not represented in these schools . |
| 4 | He thought it scandalous that a new type of higher education had emerged ‘ as a result of piecemeal decisions , often ill-prepared , and taken in conditions of near total secrecy , and which is simply not geared to meeting the country 's most pressing requirements ’ . |
| 5 | Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users . |
| 6 | Probably , Comfort thought , as she blotted her lipstick and bared her teeth to check that there were no lipstick smears on them , Anthony had simply not felt like explaining his feelings to Julia and she had misinterpreted his silence . |
| 7 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 8 | Indeed the report says ‘ small numbers of households found that the combination of high motoring costs and acceptable levels of public transport such that they were simply not bothered about learning to drive , or getting a car . |
| 9 | As I said before , this kind of political analysis has simply not advanced in Europe as it has in Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 11 | But then something happened that had simply not happened with an previous ‘ miracle ’ technology the people demanded a voice . |
| 12 | It is meaningless therefore to ask whether people are less willing to look after their elderly relatives than in the past , when this particular dimension of family obligation was simply not put to the test for most people in previous generations . |
| 13 | It had simply not occurred to her to warn her mother that Fen believed … |
| 14 | Loretta blinked ; the possibility of a real emergency , rather than a false alarm , had simply not occurred to her . |
| 15 | If you do n't provide the information you are simply not allowed on the housing list . |
| 16 | What Jeffery ( and Matza , who quotes Jeffery in support of his own position ) are pointing to here is that whatever positivists chose as the causes of crime , even when they were ‘ external ’ such as ‘ social and group ’ factors , they always excluded the nature and operation of the criminal law from consideration ; such things were simply not taken to be implicated in the process of causing criminal behaviour . |
| 17 | The amazing ⅛-nm range — a feature simply not found on most other radars — gives you the close-up detail needed to navigate narrow channels , rivers or inlets . |
| 18 | This means that plant breeders who try to create higher-yielding or disease-resistant varieties by selection or hybridisation from existing varieties can make only limited progress ; the genes they need are simply not found in the cultivated populations . |
| 19 | But then , as we shall see , it may become possible to rationalize the kind of collusive behaviour which is simply not contemplated in the standard models . |