Example sentences of "it [was/were] simply " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing it were simply words which now meant little , something vague perhaps . |
| 2 | ‘ The damage that has been done in the pursuit of production is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business ’ BRIAN REDHEAD |
| 3 | That is the direct result of treating farming as if it were simply another business . |
| 4 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 5 | The cause of her disadvantage rests in the social arrangements we make , yet there is a tradition of social analysis which attempts to blame the girl for her failure , as if it were simply her responsibility to overcome the conditions of class , race and gender to which she is subject . |
| 6 | Of course , if it were simply a matter of agreeing on an arbitrary definition , there would be little problem . |
| 7 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 8 | But if it were simply a matter of providing skills to make their students more employable , that would be a much more dubious enterprise . |
| 9 | A disclaimer would not be effective if it were merely contained in the small print of a contract or if it were simply the subject of a casual remark by the salesman during negotiations . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | This was in part because it was simply not working . |
| 12 | It was simply the Top Ten , then certain pin-ups of artists of my person choice … sketched , in fact , by the editor himself . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But at the beginning , at clubs like Shoom and Future , the music went beyond classification : it was simply good music . |
| 15 | It was simply a dull dot on a map . |
| 16 | This was now ; there was a reason for everything ; it was simply a matter of courage and patience . |
| 17 | Detached from its energy source , it was simply a piece of dead metal . |
| 18 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was simply described as ‘ sensitive ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No , I do n't think it was that ; it was simply the view he took of certain roles , certain music . |
| 25 | It was simply tiredness , she explained , she needed a couple of hours ’ sleep . |
| 26 | But then he exploded into life again and it was simply a question of when Carr would go down . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was simply an unfortunate choice of repertory . |
| 29 | It was simply the imminent arrival of Charlotte . |
| 30 | In this respect , of course , the Palace was no different from any other house of the period : It was simply a question of scale . |