Example sentences of "simply [that] [pers pn] do not " 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 .
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