Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] simply [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 2 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 3 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 4 | The reason is not simply that the developer has little experience of historic buildings , but that the pension fund or insurance company buying it wants a building which is effectively new , with a sure life of many years ahead of it . |
| 5 | However , the situation is not simply that the right hemisphere is more implicated than usual in the production of speech . |
| 6 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 7 | That objection was quite simply that the courts of this country have no power to make the order applied for . |