Example sentences of "they simply [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they simply subdivide the category of ‘ women ’ to mark differences of sexuality , ‘ race ’ , age , and class . |
| 2 | From that time onwards they simply diverted their genuine traffic through other circuits and then arranged to send carefully prepared disinformation over the tapped lines . |
| 3 | This was Watford 's best home performance of the season and manager Steve Perryman maintains his team have the talent — they simply lack consistency . |
| 4 | They simply lack the subtle energy fields or mental configuration in which such an appreciation of physical reality can arise . |
| 5 | The tend to be unappreciative of the farm worker 's skills , not out of malice , but because they simply lack the detailed knowledge of agriculture on which to base a judgement . |
| 6 | In fact , I think the book satisfactorily proves that 30,000 British POWs of the Germans in 1945 were liberated by the Soviets and never actually returned : they simply disappeared into labour camps ( the official figure is none at all ) . |
| 7 | When the President no longer needed them , he waved a hand , and they simply disappeared . |
| 8 | They simply disappeared without trace . |
| 9 | When the Frankish armies entered Saxony , the Saxons usually hid in the endless forests or untracked marshlands ; there they simply waited until the Franks had marched through , and emerged either to harry from behind or continue their nomadic life in another area . |
| 10 | Then they simply waited for you to accuse yourself . |
| 11 | They simply waited until the officials had gone and then carried on working . |
| 12 | Whether the dolphins ' population has declined or whether they simply avoid the more contaminated areas and have moved to remoter regions is not clear . |
| 13 | If we gallop on and pack ourselves into Forteviot , they simply turn and race for Scone , crossing the river unhindered . |
| 14 | Consumers do not in practice shop for credit outside their own country , they simply use their home-based credit cards to make purchases abroad . |
| 15 | Thus , as the surface waters of the mid-ocean are warmed , they simply stay on the surface ; and ( because water is also a poor conductor of heat ) they insulate the waters beneath from heating . |
| 16 | If ever he tried to do more — to hop or semi-fly down towards them to try to catch them — they simply darted away and out of reach . |
| 17 | I know they simply write what their proprietors tell them . |
| 18 | Instead they simply enlarged until , by the time that the caterpillar was full grown , they were vastly distended and many thousand times bigger than their original size . |
| 19 | They simply told my father to hurry up and put his jacket on . |
| 20 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 21 | As Martin ( 1983 , p. 22 ) suggests : ‘ When full-time working women become unemployed they do not move from one role to another , they simply lose one — like men . ’ |
| 22 | Unscrupulous bird exporters do n't care : they simply catch more birds , and as long as a few per cage survive , they are still in profit . |
| 23 | ‘ They simply ignored the advice they were receiving about the likely size of the teachers ’ pay award and are now going around scaremongering . |
| 24 | They simply made a raid on the first restaurant they came to and gave the proprietor fits . |
| 25 | Ratting is second nature to a Jack Russell and through constant practice they learn the difference between a rabbit and vermin , knowing which they should kill and which they simply hold . |
| 26 | Many of the indicators chosen are suspect , as Macnicol has shown for earlier periods , in that they simply count contact with state agencies , and it is a commonplace observation that the poor are more likely to be in contact with social workers because they are poor ( Becker , 1988 ) ; young drug-takers in inner cities are more visible than wealthy socialites but drug-taking and drinking stretch across social groups ( O'Bryan , 1989 ; Plant , 1989 ) ; desertion of women by husbands and the choice to remain unmarried are not restricted to the poor ; and so on and so on . |
| 27 | Her rigidity , the granite outcrops of her joyless faith were part of the scenery of their lives : they simply went round them . |
| 28 | It has traditionally been argued , particularly by judges , that they do not make decisions , but , instead , they simply apply the known law to new facts or declare what the law is in cases of uncertainty . |
| 29 | They do n't refuse male customers , they simply sub contract them to another firm . |
| 30 | They simply churned out dozens of reprints and impressions in a very short space of time to keep up with the ever growing demand by the Wallace clamouring public . |