Example sentences of "[is] simply that " in BNC.
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| 31 | The reason for avoiding yeast is simply that you may be sensitive to it . |
| 32 | In the minor works agreement , by contrast , the wording is simply that the contractor shall pay to the employer the liquidated damages . |
| 33 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 34 | What we are going to say is simply that the parts of this diet which are easy and effortless and even enjoyable to you will become part of your normal eating in the future . |
| 35 | The answer is simply that they enjoyed it . |
| 36 | It is simply that it left us stranded . |
| 37 | Having said that , it is entirely possible that one is being hopelessly naïve and that it is simply that the AIDS test has replaced the screen test as the sine qua non for any ambitious ingénue . |
| 38 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 39 | What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots . |
| 40 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 41 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 42 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 43 | Another version puts things differently , arguing that men 's way of speaking is not intrinsically more credible/authoritative , what happens is simply that men can use their socially dominant position to claim linguistic privileges . |
| 44 | My point is simply that once an ‘ emic ’ definition is attempted , we must go beyond looking for an ‘ essential ’ definition of an isolated concept , and discuss the whole structure of moral categories . |
| 45 | The more usual version of this theme is simply that one has a visual image of the part of the body touched . |
| 46 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |
| 47 | The major problem that young people suffer is simply that they are young . |
| 48 | It is simply that he is a married man , around 30 , with wife and children , a car , a mortgage ( ? ) etc. , etc . |
| 49 | It is simply that the most plausible stories now available about that evolution , including its very recent date and also certain considerations about the physical characteristics of the species , suggests that human beings are to some degree a mess , and that the rapid and immense development of symbolic and cultural capacities has left man as a being for which no form of life is likely to prove entirely satisfactory , either individually or socially . |
| 50 | For others the trouble is simply that a concert ‘ lacks visuals . |
| 51 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 52 | The classical answer is simply that they are there ; they are taken as given . |
| 53 | The fact is simply that the two colours do not possess universal symbolic meanings shared by all the peoples of the globe . |
| 54 | Just as the exercise of power is heterogeneous , so is resistance ; Foucault 's point is simply that ‘ there is no single locus of great Refusal , no soul of revolt , source of all rebellions , or pure law of the revolutionary ’ . |
| 55 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 56 | It is simply that one is a more likely response for the middle-class housewife and one is more likely for her working-class sister . |
| 57 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 58 | One in seven primary-school children now suffers from asthma — but the Government 's response is simply that children who are at risk should be kept indoors when air quality is poor . |
| 59 | Kahn 's thesis is simply that both because of its profit record and its potential as a brand name , Velcro 's share price should have been a lot higher — in the region of over $40 a share . |
| 60 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |