Example sentences of "it was simply " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 2 | This was in part because it was simply not working . |
| 3 | It was simply the Top Ten , then certain pin-ups of artists of my person choice … sketched , in fact , by the editor himself . ’ |
| 4 | According to Buried Alive , the 1973 biography of the singer by Myra Friedman , Joplin pleaded with Seth to force her to stop taking heroin , but he thought it was simply a play for more attention . |
| 5 | But at the beginning , at clubs like Shoom and Future , the music went beyond classification : it was simply good music . |
| 6 | It was simply a dull dot on a map . |
| 7 | This was now ; there was a reason for everything ; it was simply a matter of courage and patience . |
| 8 | Detached from its energy source , it was simply a piece of dead metal . |
| 9 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 10 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 11 | At the last fence Crisp , though he walloped the gorse into the air , still held a substantial lead , but Red Rum — with twenty-three pounds less on his back — was charging along now , and it was simply a matter of whether Crisp could survive the desperately long run to the winning post . |
| 12 | Now it was simply a matter of whether the embarrassment of a Foinavon victory could be headed off , but he was thirty lengths in the lead turning away from the Canal Turn and showed no signs of giving up . |
| 13 | It was simply described as ‘ sensitive ’ . |
| 14 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 15 | No , I do n't think it was that ; it was simply the view he took of certain roles , certain music . |
| 16 | It was simply tiredness , she explained , she needed a couple of hours ’ sleep . |
| 17 | But then he exploded into life again and it was simply a question of when Carr would go down . |
| 18 | Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him . |
| 19 | It was simply an unfortunate choice of repertory . |
| 20 | It was simply the imminent arrival of Charlotte . |
| 21 | In this respect , of course , the Palace was no different from any other house of the period : It was simply a question of scale . |
| 22 | From another it was simply teased out tragedy which had begun with the cruelly pragmatic strangulation of the Inca ( King ) Atahualpa in Cajamarca , followed by the systematic looting of the empire 's wealth and the suffering of its peoples till the Inca kingdom was reduced to the forest sanctuary of Vilcabamba . |
| 23 | In the eyes of higher headquarters , L Detachment was so small that it was simply expendable . |
| 24 | For some , it was simply a case of combining the orthodox grammar-school curriculum with the much less precise curriculum of the secondary modern school , and hoping for the best . |
| 25 | It was simply that the squalor of her house did not affect her . |
| 26 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 27 | It was simply that he could think of no other way of prolonging her absence from him indefinitely . |
| 28 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
| 29 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 30 | No one was at fault ; it was simply the result of putting together two people of totally different conditioning . |