Example sentences of "simply [that] [pers pn] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 2 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 3 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 4 | Before long , through unobtrusive questioning , he had discovered the root of the boy 's fear — simply that he did not know what was going to be done to him . |
| 5 | Sometimes she said simply that she did not know when he would be back and dropped the phone . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is simply that you do not have the courage to do so . |
| 7 | 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 . |