Example sentences of "simply in [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In my case at least , therefore , thought , belief or knowledge concerning the world can not be analysed simply in terms of dispositions to behave .
2 There have been many different attempts to explain these pressures , in terms of capitalist crisis ( or the fiscal crisis of the state ( O'Connor , 1973 ) ) ; or the state acting as a leech on productive sectors of the economy ( most strongly argued in Bacon and Eltis , 1976 ) ; or simply in terms of monetarism ( outlined in Gamble , 1984 , pp. 145–9 ; Leys , 1983 ) .
3 Here we have a further reason why defining democracy simply in terms of government is unsatisfactory .
4 If such claims can not be " explained away " ; if they do not reduce to ascriptions of certain attributes to certain entities ; if furthermore they can not be paraphrased simply in terms of knowledge , or translated into claims about the syntactical properties of certain expressions , the question is , how exactly should they be interpreted ?
5 This approach is potentially useful since it suggests that women 's under-representation in public politics can be seen not simply in terms of women 's lack of interest in politics but of the ability of men to prevent women 's issues entering politics .
6 Studies which use arousing stimuli as the items to be remembered often produce results which can be described simply in terms of von Restorff effects .
7 Identifying references to qualities can be made only via the latter 's exemplifying instances and the thesis that what actually exists can be described simply in terms of qualities and relations between qualities , can not be consistently defended .
8 Simply in terms of God 's free gift .
9 Simply in terms of sentiment , the Edwardian war had left the papacy seriously undermined in England ; but the loss was not only a matter of ideas and emotions .
10 This does n't have to be a physical , geographical journey from one place to another — I say ‘ journey ’ simply in terms of movement ’ ( Le Clair and McCaffery 1983 : 129 ) .
11 The designer is free , at this stage , to specify this simply in terms of relationships between the global domains , such as just " touching " .
12 All the same , simply in terms of precedent , it seems clear that social anthropologists usually study " primitive " societies .
13 In Eliot 's poem the status of God as objet d'art is stressed ( ‘ And there above the painter set / The Father and the Paraclete ’ ) so that for all that we may penetrate beyond that either to gesso ground or vestiges of primitive fertility ceremony , the ultimate point of origin , the postulated God , is to be explained simply in terms of sexuality , or else remains unreachable and inexplicable .
14 There are significant differences in the terms and conditions of regular relative to temporary labour , not simply in terms of wages but involving housing and welfare expenses , which can mean regular labour costing up to 50 per cent more .
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