Example sentences of "not simply be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new young secretary of the BFASS , Louis Chamerovzow , described the aristocratic group as one whose antislavery feelings ‘ had not simply been re-awakened but in many instances actually created by Mrs. Stowe 's work ’ , distancing such newcomers from those who had laboured long in the cause . |
| 2 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 3 | It can not simply be assumed that a parent who is present at the injury of their child has condoned it . |
| 4 | A recent US Supreme Court case , Feist Publications Inc v Rural Telephone Service Company , has ruled that a database would only be able to gain copyright protection if it met the copyright standard of ‘ originality ’ in its mode of functioning ; copyright protection would not simply be extended to include items which took effort on the part of the owner to compile . |
| 5 | This is precisely why a Latinate grammar can not simply be transferred to English . |
| 6 | Such images may startlingly demonstrate the general truth that the meaning of a work can not simply be equated with its subject . |
| 7 | Hume 's complex moral philosophy can not simply be equated with emotivism , but it has much in common with it . |
| 8 | But , in the words of Grant ( 1987 : 56–7 ) , ‘ the distinctive relationship that the nationalised industries have with government , and the politically charged environment in which they operate , means that they can not simply be treated as a special case of the close relationship that many large privately owned enterprises have with government . ’ |
| 9 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 10 | These contradictions can not simply be explained in terms of the satisfaction assessments being incorrect ; the disjunction between the two factors-initial answers and overall feeling — is too complete . |
| 11 | At a time when the party leadership was dominated by the sectarian views of Barbe and Celor , such reticence can not simply be explained by a sense of personal solidarity on the part of Thorez , and especially Vaillant-Couturier , for Barbusse . |
| 12 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 13 | The difference can not simply be dismissed as a question of personality , since certain patterns of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction seem to be associated with particular kinds of jobs . |
| 14 | The actual machine is replaceable , as are the programs which run on it — but your data is unique and can not simply be replaced by the local computer shop . |
| 15 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 16 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 17 | For example , the British 1971 Sample Census data give the following picture : The implication of such substantial discrepancies can not simply be ignored . |
| 18 | The newspaper articles supporting Barts are drawn from the experiences of our patients or their relatives and can not simply be ignored . |
| 19 | What is at stake in this , and in the work of a number of other writers whom Neale acknowledged , is a sensitivity to generic difference as much as to repetition , and , in particular , to generic difference which can not simply be assigned to the magical agency of authorship . |
| 20 | Demands around housing therefore must be seen to be as politically central as demands around the wage and employment , and not simply be seen as a matter of individual choice , which for women in particular it is not . |
| 21 | Decision-making tended to be a complex process which involved bargaining between a plurality of different actors , and even in each of the specific policy areas the resulting decisions could not simply be seen as the result of the preferences of one elite group or actor . |
| 22 | Women should not simply be seen as smitten fools in need of protection ; when they accept the advances of those professionally above them , they know the murky pond in which they plunge . |
| 23 | Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year . |
| 24 | The novel proves that knowledge is possible , but also that it is in a sense artificial : it does not come from the past , historical knowledge in particular can not simply be uncovered , laid bare and put out to view ( or rather , the novelist can no longer create the illusion that the past is speaking for itself ) ; it is a construction of the past , and the reader is conscious of , and in compliance with , the careful disposition and organization of the disparate elements that go to make up the whole edifice . |
| 25 | Work on women can not simply be added on to existing , flawed bodies of thought but requires a revolution in the ways in which we think about men as well as women , about work as well as the family , about political and public as well as private issues . |
| 26 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 27 | But particularly intriguing is the phenomenon of syncretisation itself , as an artistic process , and its relationship to meaning : the process whereby something new is created that can not simply be reduced to either side of two antagonistic forces , or returned to a former ‘ purity ’ . |
| 28 | Since these ‘ facts ’ belong to the group as a whole and since the latter is more than the sum of its parts , they have a transcendent reality of their own and can not simply be reduced to the individuals in whose conduct they manifest themselves . |
| 29 | It is to fail in other words , to understand that literature can not simply be reduced to ideology , that literature has its own specificity , and that it consequently " reflects " the social process in a highly complex and mediated form . |
| 30 | In Saunders 's view , the ‘ local state ’ can not simply be reduced to a functioning part of a national capitalist state , for within certain constraints ‘ non-capitalist interests can win at the local level in a way that is becoming increasingly difficult at national level ’ ( pp. 4 , 11 ) . |