Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] simply [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often a president is simply a head of state with few , if any , powers ( like the British monarch ) and the system of government is , in fact , parliamentary . |
| 2 | Geography is simply the study of places . |
| 3 | For a sample with different atoms the result is simply a superposition of those expected for each of the constituent atoms . |
| 4 | Research is simply a matter of defining one 's problem and selecting the appropriate tool or method for that problem . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there are grounds for asking whether the measurable distribution of wealth-holding is simply a matter of choice within Britain in comparison with other leading economies , or whether the financial services sector forms the agency which actively determines that distribution rather than simply facilitating it . |
| 6 | A template is simply a part-finished document file , a copy of which is opened automatically leaving the original unchanged . |
| 7 | Planners in Groningen say putting such a scheme into practice is simply a question of political will . |
| 8 | ( For Moore yellow is simply the quality we immediately apprehend in sight , not its physical basis . ) |
| 9 | To advocates of the ‘ resolute approach ’ , crime is simply a choice to do wrong ; it is never the squalid last gasp of the outsider . |
| 10 | In an atmosphere of such buoyancy the dealers are obliged to cut margins and try to survive competition from the opportunists for whom the fax boom is simply the latest in a long line of nice little short-term earners , such as double-glazing and car phones . |
| 11 | Thus , provided the meals industry is in competitive equilibrium , the marginal cost curve for the film industry is simply the extra pounds worth of utility sacrificed by using scarce resources to make another film instead of extra meals . |
| 12 | Although the nineteenth-century literary historian would have acknowledged a distinction between literary scholarship and reading , the implication of much twentieth-century critical practice is that criticism is an extension of the reading process , and that the critic is simply an exemplary and particularly articulate reader . |
| 13 | A stroke is simply a unit of recognition . |
| 14 | Charlotte thinks that it is better to get the richest husband one can and feels that a happy marriage is simply a matter of chance . |
| 15 | Perhaps your first bar is simply a prelude to many more ? |
| 16 | Far from being a lunatic fantasy , the foregoing rigmarole is simply a true account of the process by which , without the additional aggravation of those senatorial rules , one member of the Dail was elected . |
| 17 | ‘ The majority of a designer 's work is simply a rational process . |
| 18 | So th th th the , the outline agrarian law is simply a means of ensuring that everybody will come up to a middle peasant status . |
| 19 | For most people nowadays , drinking is simply a natural part of their lives . |
| 20 | Removing a cistern is simply a case of undoing the inlet and overflow pipes , which are connected to the cistern with large brass or plastic nuts . |
| 21 | A cutting is simply a length of stem top growth — with some plants it is a soft-tissue tip , with others a more mature hard-wood section — which , when inserted into soil or a suitable growing medium , and sometimes helped and encouraged by the presence of artificial hormones , will fight for life by producing roots , and so grow into a new individual plant . |
| 22 | In principle , there is no significant difference between income ( a flow ) and wealth ( a stock ) since the value of an individual 's wealth is simply the discounted present value of the individual 's net income stream , i.e. the stock value of the flow . |
| 23 | The process of decision-making is simply the outcome of conflicts between different groups , with governmental institutions acting simply as the arbiter between these conflicting groups or , at most , acting as merely one of these groups . |
| 24 | The alternative is a gene's-eye view , suggested by Samuel Butler 's famous remark that a chicken is simply the egg 's way of producing another egg , and developed in a modern context in Richard Dawkins 's book , The Selfish Gene . |
| 25 | Therefore the overall rate of return is simply the risk-free rate of interest . |
| 26 | The disguised question is simply a familiar question in a different form . |
| 27 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 28 | None of this implies that molecular biology is simply a higher form of botanizing as practised a century ago ; on the contrary , people 's descriptions of their experimental methods are replete with numerical information about such things as the concentrations of reagents . |
| 29 | But war is simply a dramatic backdrop to the novel , for the material of history is recycled into a mush of individual lives . |
| 30 | Flackware 's Zmodem is simply the best implementation we have seen of this powerful file transfer system . |