Example sentences of "[adv] simply that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , behind schedule , he explains , so simply that I can understand , that he is going to take the Peter Brooke nomination , allow a little debate on the topic , then take an amendment to substitute ‘ Boothroyd ’ for ‘ Brooke ’ , take a vote on that and then see where we are . |
| 2 | It is not enough simply that the right of privacy is acknowledged . |
| 3 | It was n't a red-hot knife , it 's just simply that the surgeon had taken this knife , started to carve her abdomen open , and the heat part of the heat was the actual blood that was coming out of this wound . |
| 4 | It was not simply that London Films had registered a loss of £330,000 for the fiscal year 1936 . |
| 5 | Unfortunately for IBM , its problems are not simply that it has too many staff . |
| 6 | Moreover , that assumption was to some extent reinforced by the official ideology of The Green Book : it is not simply that parties were forbidden and elections arranged in such a way that people had no policy grounds for voting one way or another . |
| 7 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher was concerned not simply that fewer than half the electorate bothered to participate in the choosing of their local council , but that many eligible electors were not themselves local taxpayers . |
| 9 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |
| 10 | The reason is not simply that the developer has little experience of historic buildings , but that the pension fund or insurance company buying it wants a building which is effectively new , with a sure life of many years ahead of it . |
| 11 | It is not simply that a large number of multiply-deprived people live in the urban cores ( Hall and Laurence , 1981 ) ; there are individuals and households where this applies , but highest unemployment rates are frequently encountered in areas of new public housing that would not be identified as inadequate in census surveys . |
| 12 | However , the excitement is not simply that we have produced data consistent with the presence of large animals . |
| 13 | It is not simply that cases of public library censorship appear to be on the increase ( although there is no substantial evidence to confirm this ) , but that the question of determining what is and is not censorship can be so time-consuming . |
| 14 | He wished to know not simply that he was looking for something , but what it was and what it looked like . |
| 15 | We plead not simply that God will change our circumstances , but that he will change us so that we can become catalysts , through whom his plans can be implemented . |
| 16 | If there 's a reason for the collapse in sales , it 's not simply that acts are worse than before , but that there are fewer teenagers to buy their records . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The main point , however , is not simply that the premisses are largely matters of choice . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is not simply that it is a vital matter for some small group of people ( as some may think them to be ) called ‘ Christian feminists ’ who would reconcile their feminism with their Christian faith . |
| 23 | But it is not simply that women are notable by their absence . |
| 24 | My main point is , though , not simply that the Webbs ' own general prospectus was wrong , nor even that it misdirected their appraisal of Owen . |
| 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 | It is not simply that these areas suffer from deprivation and poverty , but there is a danger of many outer estates , in particular , becoming areas which have a quite different social and economic system , operating almost at subsistence level , depending entirely on the public sector , where the opportunities for improvement either through self-help or through outside intervention are minimal . |
| 27 | However , the situation is not simply that the right hemisphere is more implicated than usual in the production of speech . |
| 28 | However , as Table 12.2 shows , it is not simply that there are more women in the older age groups . |
| 29 | It is not simply that comparisons and choices have to be made ; for computers can sometimes do that . |
| 30 | It was not simply that this or that particular topic might need revision or reassessment , but , they said , ‘ It is vital for us to turn our back on academic eclecticism … , and on the tendency to turn the study of literature and language from a systematic science back once more into a miscellany of episodic and anecdotal essays ’ ( 1977 : 49 ) . |