Example sentences of "[be] simply [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're simply saying that if we 're going to build the vehicle over there with in excess of 60 per cent local content , you should n't charge us the 10 per cent duty . |
| 2 | We 're simply saying that it 's not been demonstrated that regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account . |
| 3 | I 'm simply saying that because of the nature of our interest in guitars and playing , that 's the way it is . |
| 4 | I 'm not disputing that , I 'm simply saying that perhaps we have a management problem here where we could be doing things differently and I 'd like to hear some positive suggestions from housing officers as to how you can address that . |
| 5 | Erm I 'm simply saying that there is a possibility of a an inner relief road taking some of the traffic , an inner northern relief road , taking some of the traffic that might otherwise have remained on the A sixty one . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm simply saying that Sarella disclaimed all rights to Uncle 's bequest before becoming engaged to me . |
| 7 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 8 | I am simply arguing that Brooke-Rose 's analyses point toward her later use of what she herself describes as ‘ metaphor ’ at the level of discourse . |
| 9 | If the greatest and richest in the land were exempted from the indignity of assessment , so many of the poorest were simply overlooked that every list ended up short of about one-third of the men it should have included , and since almost all of these were worth less than £2 the general level of wealth is made to look higher than it really was . |
| 10 | I like I 'm sure others , once the issues were published for the E I P , took advice from the Home Secretary and were simply advised that the location that that we should give evidence on locational matters to the E I P and that is what we have done . |
| 11 | Patients were simply told that we were aware that emotions could influence how they reacted to illness and were asked to participate in a survey investigating their response to hospital admission for minor surgery . |
| 12 | My first , er , but sad duty is simply to say that Sir Kenneth , our President , had hoped to be here , but he 's had er , an operation and er , he is not really quite well enough , so I was asked as a Vice-President , whether I would stand in for him , at the weekend , and er I shall do my best , and erm , I 'm glad to have to opportunity of doing one or two things , but we 'll come to those in due time . |
| 13 | Now he is simply hoping that he is eligible to try to win the award again . |
| 14 | The best solution from my point of view is simply to recognise that rivers are part of the natural heritage of our country and that they should be made public rights of way , just as footpaths are . |
| 15 | It is simply to recognise that the structure of the ‘ proof ’ in both cases , in Rawls 's case an a priori proof , in Kohlberg 's case an experimental one , actually presupposes what it sets out to establish . |
| 16 | The Board is simply saying that its own policies will also be explicitly only for companies . |
| 17 | This is simply saying that each market participant , in laying his buying or selling plans , must pay careful heed not only to the prospective decisions of those to whom he hopes to sell or from whom he hopes to buy — as an implication of the latter — also to the prospective decisions of others whose decisions to sell or to buy may compete with his own . |
| 18 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 19 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 20 | But unless you want to spend your time and money on litigation against surveyors , building societies , estate agents and solicitors , with no guarantee of success in the end , you need to become as competent as you possibly can in carrying out your own surveys , even if it is simply to check that the ‘ expert ’ has n't missed anything . |
| 21 | In the limiting case , the visitor is simply told that certain specimens and artifacts have certain kinds of names . |
| 22 | He was simply checking that she had considered all the angles before reaching her decision to go . |
| 23 | At the time I thought it was strange but , on reflection , Rachel was simply checking that no trace of her departure from the church remained . |
| 24 | No precise functional relationship was posited between the level of aggregate demand and the pressure on money-wages : it was simply feared that a stated and credible commitment to the objective of full employment might foster an atmosphere in the wage bargaining process in which money wages could run out of control . |
| 25 | ‘ I was simply saying that I 'm not a total stranger to your country . ’ |
| 26 | The purpose of our paper was simply to show that the Parsonnet system can be applied easily and effectively to cardiac surgical practice in Britain . |
| 27 | I was simply told that I had no vocation . |