Example sentences of "[adv] simply a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From beneath the hat poked various sheep-like curls of iron-grey soft hair , with a purplish cast , perhaps simply a glow reflected from the shining expanse of floral artificial silk below . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It was not simply a matter of exporting enough to pay for necessary imports , as contemporary economic propaganda often suggested . |
| 8 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
| 9 | For him the reworking of familiar images is not simply a matter of drawing attention to the way in which mass-reproduction numbs the optic nerves , by shocking the spectator with a moustached Mona Lisa , but rather , using a peculiar blend of both iconoclasm and a sort of wry homage , of investigating the power of certain images , particularly those which have national resonance . |
| 10 | It was not simply a question of age and hierarchy . |
| 11 | is not simply a money-centred enterprise . |
| 12 | Mr Mandelson was quoted in the article as saying : ‘ This is not simply a career move . |
| 13 | Malcolm Storry 's bullet-headed Aufidius is not simply a rude barbarian but an acute analyst of Coriolanus 's character : Mr Storry has the priceless gift of making the language tangible so that when he says ‘ I think he 'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish ’ the image comes resonantly alive . |
| 14 | It is not simply a question of distance : hundreds of miles in America can be crossed faster than 30 in crowded Japan . |
| 15 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 16 | But this is not simply a parochial choice . |
| 17 | This was not simply a hollow hewn out of the mound ; a room to admire or to sit in . |
| 18 | It is not simply a question of multiplying numbers . |
| 19 | Yet it was not simply a matter of proposing ; the policy was soon enough carried out . |
| 20 | ‘ It is the first time in 30 years that an international financial institution has been created , and we are not simply a bank , but also a political endeavour . |
| 21 | This is the really important point , it is not simply a matter of getting the information onto film , it must then be used to bring about a change . |
| 22 | The Cognitive–Behaviour Therapies share a central assumption that the response of a person to a situation is not simply a product of external rewards and punishments but is influenced by the individual 's idiosyncratic interpretation of their situation . |
| 23 | However , the crisis is not simply a product of specific policy failures , or of weariness with ten years of Mitterrand . |
| 24 | For example , it is not simply a drop in pH that has caused salmon and rainbow trout to disappear from thousands of Scandinavian rivers , and several large lakes . |
| 25 | Leapor 's treatment of the division of labour in this poem confirms that this was a fundamental struggle in her life and poetry , not simply a localized disagreement with Sophronia . |
| 26 | Despite disclaimers , Social Democracy in Germany was German Social Democracy , not simply a German component of an international class organization ( as theory and the French maintained ) . |
| 27 | Moreover , the human body is not simply a bag of cells ; no one knows how years of microgravity would affect the complex interaction between cells in an organ and between organs themselves . |
| 28 | The 1990 local elections were thus treated by both politicians and commentators as providing not simply a test of the impact of the poll tax , but also a crucial verdict on Mrs Thatcher and her government . |
| 29 | Dr Maria Hari was , however , keen to point out that the training was not simply a summary of these professions but that conductors were unique products of a complex system . |
| 30 | It is not simply a question of becoming nicer or trying harder to live a good life . |