Example sentences of "simply the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Simply the question of funds . |
| 2 | What is being defended is not simply the position of individuals in group A against challenge by outsiders . |
| 3 | Emily stared at them in horror but then a few bills did n't mean anything , most people hung on to their money for as long as they could , it was simply the way of businessmen . |
| 4 | The metric used to study this is simply the proportion of propositions in recall which are one-item propositions : fig. 10.6 shows the results . |
| 5 | In many human societies virtually everyone is treated as a kinsman of one sort or another so that alliances established by marriage are simply the renewal of links which have also existed in the past . |
| 6 | Geography is simply the study of places . |
| 7 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
| 8 | If this reaction seems overstated , it is simply the effect of holidays spent and expectations dulled at some of Europe 's best resorts . |
| 9 | As for truth , Epicurus , rather like Hobbes centuries later , took sense-perception to be simply the effect of objects on our material souls . |
| 10 | Design is not simply the production of shapes , it is the development of those shapes to satisfy a specified purpose . |
| 11 | An individual 's social network is simply the sum of relationships which he or she has contracted with others , and in that rather obvious sense the concept is universally applicable . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's simply the laying-on of hands . ’ |
| 13 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 14 | In general we can write where n is the amount of substance in moles ( or more simply the number of moles ) , m is the mass of the substance in grams and M is the molar mass . |
| 15 | 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 . |