Example sentences of "[pron] is simply that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 2 | It is not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 3 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 4 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 6 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 7 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 8 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 10 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 11 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |