Example sentences of "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 | And then the idea ( how did it come to me ? ) that it must not simply be glass but big glass . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was a man , a friend , a fellow-rebel , a poet , with whom one could simply be oneself ; and write knowing that it was understood , respected . |
| 5 | ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) |
| 6 | Bearing all this in mind , what are we to make of Searle 's ( 1984 ) claim that the brain does not identify faces via information processing of the kind described in cognitive models and that , as far as the cognitive sciences are concerned , there may simply be no story to tell ? |
| 7 | With the junction box method of wiring , you may simply be able to re-use the cable for the new light fitting . |
| 8 | Obviously , I was n't suggesting Moby should simply be allowed to run off-lead . |
| 9 | But now scientists believe the root cause of Germany 's problems could simply be drier weather , albeit aggravated by acid deposition and by the growing tendency for forests , like farmland , to be planted as monocultures . |
| 10 | The result of this hunger could simply be that opera houses survive the dog days of Thatcherism with full houses for Carmen etc. , or it could be the creation of new works that express and mirror the social and political needs of our culture in opera 's emotive language . |
| 11 | Millions of trade unionists could not simply be represented by the casting of a block vote once a year . |
| 12 | The elections will be boycotted by Shining Path , who have already stepped up assassinations , caused several candidates to resign and raised fears that , in many parts of Peru , democratic elections will simply be a pipe dream . |
| 13 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 14 | But blessings can not simply be expected to come along in disguise . |
| 15 | Such images may startlingly demonstrate the general truth that the meaning of a work can not simply be equated with its subject . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | If they were , the world would simply be divided into a majority of believing Christians and a small handful of people who were either too stupid or too wicked to accept something which was obvious and clear-cut . |
| 18 | The high mortality rates could simply be seen as nature playing its part in curbing hare numbers . |
| 19 | There would be no antagonism towards troops , who would simply be acting under orders . |
| 20 | Its replacement would still have to cope with the problem of big-spending councils ; the old rows about rate-capping and poll-tax-capping would simply be called something else . |
| 21 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 22 | As Carlo Fontana , the manager of Bologna 's Teatro Comunale , puts it , animosamente : ‘ We shall simply be obliged to shut down . ’ |
| 23 | Or she may simply be trying to snub President Cory Aquino , who refuses to allow Marcos back , even through he is dead ; and has barred Imelda too . |
| 24 | The Czechoslovak voucher scheme , which will apportion shares in state enterprises to the general public , was received with scepticism by the Poles ( who want to do the same thing a different way ) and with disdain by the Hungarians ( who think state enterprises should simply be sold ) . |
| 25 | It needs to be stressed , what this chapter may serve to illustrate , that developments of this sort should not simply be identified with a few individual thinkers . |
| 26 | This definable zero-point must have some relevance to the archaeological site being dated : potassium-argon dating of a piece of volcanic rock will date the formation of the rock , but it does not necessarily provide any useful information for the archaeologist ; the rock may simply be part of the geological environment of the site . |
| 27 | Without such a review there is a serious danger that existing documentation problems may simply be automated along with the data , thus perpetuating rather than resolving them . |
| 28 | Alternatively , understood as ‘ gods-and-men ’ the phrase could simply be a figure of speech . |
| 29 | In the first place , the decline might simply be seen as an inevitable feature of the maturity of any industrialized society . |
| 30 | The difference between an offence of reckless driving ( maximum penalty of two years ) and one of causing death by reckless driving ( maximum penalty of five years ) may simply be one of chance . |