Example sentences of "simply [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case . |
| 32 | One says simply that her parents kept their ‘ strong , independent spirit ; they would be no burden on their children . ’ |
| 33 | Mrs Thatcher was concerned not simply that fewer than half the electorate bothered to participate in the choosing of their local council , but that many eligible electors were not themselves local taxpayers . |
| 34 | Demonstrations of context-specificity do not in themselves establish the correctness of this view as they can be readily interpreted as showing simply that the effects of pre-exposure interfere less with acquisition when conditioning takes place in different context . |
| 35 | Franca , now gathered into Marcus 's attempt , was saying in her mind , Oh let it be all right , let it be all right , not sure what she meant by this , whether that Marcus should revive Patrick , or whether simply that Marcus should ‘ get away ’ without some positive disgrace , some catastrophe or shameful happening . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | He says simply that he enjoys what he does ( he 's in research ) and is not ambitious — that he 'd be unhappy on the managerial side . |
| 39 | Section 7 provides simply that ‘ The decisions of the Tribunal ( including any decisions as to their jurisdiction ) shall not be subject to appeal or liable to be questioned in any court . ’ |
| 40 | It was simply that the squalor of her house did not affect her . |
| 41 | It was simply that he could think of no other way of prolonging her absence from him indefinitely . |
| 42 | It was n't simply that he was managing to smile with his mouth full — a difficult enough task at the best of times — it was that his smile expressed so many real , positive qualities that it must be designed to sell something . |
| 43 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 44 | The reason many directors resist starting a pension scheme is simply that it takes money out of the business for example , for expansion . |
| 45 | those who state simply that a public library exists to provide people with what they want forget that the library service itself is one of the agencies which determine what they want . |
| 46 | To that she would reply simply that it was what ‘ I ought to do . ’ |
| 47 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 48 | It is not simply that a large number of multiply-deprived people live in the urban cores ( Hall and Laurence , 1981 ) ; there are individuals and households where this applies , but highest unemployment rates are frequently encountered in areas of new public housing that would not be identified as inadequate in census surveys . |
| 49 | The rule is simply that one uses as many digits as are in the final number ( three digits if in hundreds , four if in thousands , and so on ) and then uses the random numbers in appropriate sets . |
| 50 | One 's reason for doubt lies not merely in the way selection is made : it is simply that those selected have to be very independent indeed to withstand or divert the direction pushed by permanent staff , all of whom seem already to be behaving with unwonted circumspection . |
| 51 | The consensus that emerged about the teachers who had mattered to them was neither that they were strict nor that they were liberal , but simply that they were interested in them as people . |
| 52 | Simply that the behaviours you use have known shaping effects on the behaviours you get back from other people . |
| 53 | The interest of UE is simply that it follows Gaius , and keeps to the basic wordings . |
| 54 | No doubt Ulpian wrote simply that the words created no trust but merely expressed advice . |
| 55 | The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir . |
| 56 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 57 | He says simply that his civil servants work extremely hard . |
| 58 | But the real explanation , it seems , is simply that the Evening Standard 's Commuter Club has begun to highlight all LT 's deficiencies . |
| 59 | The reason for avoiding yeast is simply that you may be sensitive to it . |
| 60 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |