Example sentences of "simply because it is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An assertion is not defamatory simply because it is untrue — it must lower the victim in the eyes of right-thinking citizens . |
| 2 | It is also , simply because it is critical , a sort of potential morality — even an actual one — and no one can understand the Age of Criticism without gasping that , like the Crusades or the Reformation , its prime purpose was a far-reaching reform of the human spirit . |
| 3 | Some parents worry that rewarding good behaviour is a type of bribery , and believe that a child should do the right thing as a matter of course , simply because it is right . |
| 4 | Erm to curtail it 's competitive event er would be an absolute disaster shows that erm in simply because it is popular not just within the airlines but also the business er customers |
| 5 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 6 | In consequence , police ethnography remains largely unwritten simply because it is unlikely the organization will be keen to reveal the ways this ‘ immense disorder ’ is constructed , for it is not in their nature to allow other individuals to create their classifications for them . |
| 7 | What we have not previously considered is that a cultural trait may have evolved in the way that it has , simply because it is advantageous to itself . |
| 8 | This suggests another reason why memory might be related to subjective risk , simply because it is advantageous to the organism to have memory organized that way ( c.f. J. R. Anderson , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | Here two separate effects may be observed , firstly a distinctiveness effect where a single arousing item in a series is likely to be well remembered simply because it is different from the other items , and secondly an effect which has been described as similar to Easterbrook 's hypothesis in general task performance . |
| 10 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |