Example sentences of "simply [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |
| 2 | The consensus that emerged about the teachers who had mattered to them was neither that they were strict nor that they were liberal , but simply that they were interested in them as people . |
| 3 | The answer is simply that they enjoyed it . |
| 4 | However , this does not mean that they are necessarily wrong in their idea that the Earth may have flipped over , simply that they have n't adequately worked out what could cause it to do so . |
| 5 | The major problem that young people suffer is simply that they are young . |
| 6 | If Soviet economic relations with her East European clients have become a ‘ net liability ’ to the USSR in any meaningful sense , this must mean that , on balance the USSR would be better off without them and not simply that they involve a net expenditure . |
| 7 | My point here is simply that they do go some way to explaining why patterns of co-residence fluctuate over time . |
| 8 | The classical answer is simply that they are there ; they are taken as given . |
| 9 | It is not simply that they have different views of the world , but that they each define what is the evidence in a different way . |
| 10 | The reason for Bleach 's high media profile recently is simply that they are a pearl in an oyster of normality and the ‘ Eclipse EP ’ blots out every other noise/female vocal merchants being hailed as the new messiahs with immense ease . |
| 11 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 12 | No , it was simply that they could n't apply it . |
| 13 | It is not repentance ; it is simply that they are scared for their skins and wish to save parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 14 | ‘ Clearly the reason they claim to have burnt it is simply that they realize it would be too risky to let us examine it . ’ |
| 15 | The reason for Bleach 's high media profile recently is simply that they are a pearl in an oyster of normality and the ‘ Eclipse EP ’ blots out every other noise/female vocal merchants being hailed as the new messiahs with immense ease . |
| 16 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |
| 17 | I I I I 'm until you spoke to the collators department , they told you simply that they knew each other . |
| 18 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 19 | It does n't mean they in themselves could not be profitable but simply that they have these cash flow problems . |
| 20 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 21 | I am not claiming that the belief is wrong , but simply that we have no facts on which to judge the issue . |
| 22 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 23 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 24 | The first difference is simply that we are allowed to specify less in the way of " conditions or data " in order to fix the state . |
| 25 | It is not simply that we can suspect the objective basis of ‘ knowledge ’ but that ‘ knowledge ’ is compartmentalized ; some kinds of ‘ knowledge ’ are considered more important than other kinds , and this is communicated very effectively in schools . |
| 26 | The reason the process of telling the truth seems less complicated than I 've said is simply that we are n't conscious of most of the mental processes I 've been describing . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's simply that we all thought it so unnecessary , Mr Barnett . |
| 28 | My wish , the wish of all of us , is simply that we may as quickly as possible get to the bottom of the shocking and cold-blooded crime which has stunned and appalled the entire country , and arrest and punish those responsible . |
| 29 | Yet , much that they wrote then resonates as much today : it is simply that we do not comprehend it . |
| 30 | It was simply that we were shooting the picture down in Brighton on the front to a large extent and on the rubbish dump , I remember , which we turned into the fields of northern France , and we needed that terrible phrase from the First World War , cannon fodder . |