Example sentences of "can not simply [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That re-emphasises the fact that we can not simply talk about cancelling Trident . |
| 2 | Obviously we can not simply rely on the raw figures if we wish to consider whether local authority expenditure had grown since the £9,230 million spent in 1974 — the year of reorganisation . |
| 3 | Since we can not simply assume that the results from one bilingual setting must apply to all others too , we shall study two widely differing groups of bilingual children in the UK . |
| 4 | But Lyons can not simply shrug off such features as irrelevant and somehow ‘ impure ’ , for no use of English occurs without them . |
| 5 | As long as Kristeva 's third stage is present in our thinking only as a Utopian dream , feminists can not simply refuse to get involved in this endless discourse of difference ; people who claim that this is a postfeminist era are living in a dream world . |
| 6 | Thus if two vehicles collide and neither driver can say what happened after ( and there is no corroborative evidence ) , the judge can not simply refuse to make any finding . |
| 7 | You can not simply draw up a covenant ( or a Deposited Covenant Agreement ) to cover a donation you have already made in the hope that ACET can obtain tax advantage on the sum given . |
| 8 | Sociologists can not simply observe action from the outside and impose an external logic upon it . |
| 9 | Concessive holists can not simply ignore this divide , as Miller does , for this will leave their own position undefended . |
| 10 | She writes : ‘ We can not simply shift Jesus from center-stage and replace him with humanity or God by wishing it were so . ’ |
| 11 | But one can not simply associate high lexical density with writing , and low lexical density with speaking . |
| 12 | It can not simply withhold performance and wait to be sued : if it does , the other party merely has to wait until expiry of the contractual time bar period and then sue . |
| 13 | And why , when you have agreed a price on the home you want , you can not simply hand the owner a cheque then move in . |
| 14 | That application can not simply model itself on the procedures of empirical research , however , since it has to operate within contexts which preclude it . |
| 15 | He points out : ’ A court faced with a young offender who has been involved in the taking of vehicles , even though it may be his third or possibly fourth appearance , can not simply pass a deterrent sentence on the basis of the prevalence of such offending in the locality Section 1(4A) ( b ) of the 1982 Act deals with protecting the public from serious harm from the offender . |
| 16 | One might say that the feminist problem is that one can not simply speak of the one nature without the other . |
| 17 | A ‘ message ’ Christology can not simply consist in a message , a message which exists independently of the person who preached it . |
| 18 | A tree can not simply drop its leaves because it would be discarding vast quantities of nutrients . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if there is no express or implied contractual right ( see below ) to relocate employees , employers can not simply go ahead and relocate their work-force unless they obtain each employee 's consent to the change in his or her place of work . |
| 20 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 21 | They can not simply side-step it by claiming that the appeal to literacy has altered the nature of the ‘ great divide ’ theory . |
| 22 | If we observe , for example , a sow confined to a stall we can not simply conclude that she is distressed without asking her rather more subtle questions . |
| 23 | Therefore , in measuring the amount of useful information contained in a definition , we can not simply measure the total number of words . |
| 24 | The principal faced with a troubled or disruptive child can not simply send him someplace else . |
| 25 | Yet if one takes what one does with one 's life seriously , one can not simply throw one 's own most serious projects into the melting pot of desires and preferences along with everyone else 's . |
| 26 | One of the problems facing him was that one can not simply set up any experiment in a public building ; health and safety regulations have to be obeyed . |
| 27 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 28 | The point is , we can not simply change a word 's meaning for the whole community by fiat . |
| 29 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 30 | One can not simply look at the kinds of problems thrown up by particular social structures and economic situations and analyse policies as responses to those problems , since policies themselves influence the character of the societies in which they are adopted . |