Example sentences of "simply a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Will is simply a clear statement about how your money and possessions are to be divided when you die . |
| 2 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 3 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 4 | The alehouse in its most basic form was simply a domestic building where ale was sold to generate additional income for the household , although David Lupton observed in 1632 that the alehouse keeper ‘ defies a wine tavern as an upstart outlandish fellow , and suspects the wine to be poisoned . |
| 5 | This is , in most cases , simply a normal , everyday problem . ’ |
| 6 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 7 | Recovery is simply a matter of relaxing the backward pressure on the stick and using the controls quite normally to bring the wings level and to ease out of the dive . |
| 8 | There will be no move out of the core business in the City or West End , simply a push for greater market share . |
| 9 | It is simply a question of what sort of world we wish to inhabit — one of predictability , or one where the outcome is unknown to us and thus includes an element of self-exploration . |
| 10 | We 're sure Moby 's behaviour is simply a phase . |
| 11 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 13 | Near Death Experience Hopefully simply a band name , not a prediction . |
| 14 | It was not , Hogg insisted , simply a matter of stricter refereeing . |
| 15 | So-called , because , except for Pretoria , no one in the world recognises the sovereignty of the Transkei , which is otherwise perceived to be simply a geographical region in the south-eastern corner of South Africa . |
| 16 | However , many cars built within the last few years have hardened valve seats , or alloy cylinder heads that need little ( simply a retune ) or no modification to use unleaded petrol . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not simply a matter of buying a spool and catching millions of fish , ’ Chilton said , ‘ but the more skilful and forward-thinking anglers are developing its use all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ There was simply a hope that somehow in the future things would get better because of this enormous expenditure . ’ |
| 19 | There 's simply a number of bloody big questions . |
| 20 | What we were seeing was simply a ‘ rationalisation ’ of the collection , a ‘ refining process . ’ |
| 21 | Perceptions are simply a vision of political realities . |
| 22 | To a foreign correspondent covering the British election for a foreign audience , whether a party leader appears energetic or decisive is simply a matter of objective reporting : a perception . |
| 23 | They are simply a recording of a band 's live or alternative versions of their songs , which are used for one or two broadcasts . |
| 24 | But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ . |
| 25 | The ‘ Shantih ’ at the poem 's end may be simply a way of stopping , a ‘ formal ending ’ ; or it may be comparable to the exhausted collapse after the destruction at the end of ‘ Gerontion ’ ( Eliot considered ‘ Gerontion ’ as preface to The Waste Land ) . |
| 26 | If Eliot had been formed by St Louis , then we should remember that for him St Louis had been not simply a city , but also ‘ the beginning of the Wild West ’ . |
| 27 | Eliot saw the savage here as simply a base from which to start in the critique of the modern . |
| 28 | It also relates to Eliot 's sense of the poet 's mission in ‘ Little Gidding ’ when the streets of London become simply a tribal homeland . |
| 29 | The suburban setting of my destination was unexceptional , simply a footbridge over tracks , a few solemn railway buildings , a row of villas , a couple of trees . |
| 30 | It was not simply a matter of exporting enough to pay for necessary imports , as contemporary economic propaganda often suggested . |