Example sentences of "might simply be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , the decline might simply be seen as an inevitable feature of the maturity of any industrialized society . |
| 2 | It might simply be that you are a person with small wrists but a large body frame , wide shoulders , wide rib-cage , and so on . |
| 3 | However , much demolition is done on a piece work or per day basis , and you might simply be talking about the loss of a day 's work or a day or two 's profit . |
| 4 | Or , of course , it might simply be a habit the person has acquired that has no particular significance . |
| 5 | At first we thought that the foragers might simply be suffering from some sort of apian hydrophobia , but when we increased the distance of the feeding station so that the dances indicated the far side of the lake , recruits turned up in great numbers . |
| 6 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 7 | Others suspect that exhibition spaces might simply be veils for new real-estate deals . |
| 8 | The idea that these targets might simply be achieved by a cosy consortium between the health and education services begins to crack with research reported by Nutbeam et al in this issue ( p 102 ) . |
| 9 | Without a reinforcing reputation he might simply be classed as a ‘ Bullshitter ’ — the boy who thinks he 's hard but is n't and rejected accordingly . |
| 10 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 11 | But even if they were to be drawn up from scratch with the express aim of reducing the level of severity in sentencing , there would still be a danger that discretion might simply be displaced to an earlier point in the system , such as the prosecutorial decision . |
| 12 | People might simply be responding , albeit unconsciously , in a manner consistent with their usual direction of eye movements . |
| 13 | It might simply be that the amount of learning involved in such a task was not great enough to generate biochemical changes big enough to be measured . |
| 14 | Otherwise , they might simply be part of the background . |
| 15 | When we were talking about replicators in the abstract , we saw that ‘ power ’ might simply be direct properties of the replicator itself , intrinsic properties like ‘ stickiness ’ . |
| 16 | This has the merit of allowing researchers to identify changes in attitudes among a population in a more reliable way than random sampling where variations might simply be due to variations between samples . |
| 17 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 18 | Alternatively it might simply be recorded that additional capital should be credited in the firm 's books to the partner who contributes it as an addition to his share — with a corresponding alteration in the capital sharing ratio . |
| 19 | It 's now quite sterile yet still manages to be immensely variable — to such a degree that even in the 18th century , gardeners thought all crocuses might simply be variants of it . |