Example sentences of "[is] simply that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's simply that people need to see their leaders and would feel hurt if they believed themselves forgotten . |
| 2 | It 's simply that it is not by any means obvious how PR is supposed to deliver all these goodies . |
| 3 | It 's simply that on even the sunniest days you are unlikely to meet other walkers in the sorts of numbers typical elsewhere . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball . |
| 5 | " Hazel — dear old Hazel — it 's simply that I know there 's something unnatural and evil twisted all round this place . |
| 6 | The parking spaces for the erm bungalow residents erm are are generally spread around in in a , in such a way as to be as close as possible to the bungalows that they serve , they 're not if you like , specific car park , but on this drawing they 're , they 're identified it 's simply that the proportionate parking that the planners require for a construction of new houses is there and then over and above that there is further parking which , if you like , will satisfy the need of the bungalow residents , though they may not necessarily be identified specifically . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's simply that you and I share a father . ’ |
| 8 | It 's simply that I 'm not prepared to see him branded a fraud and a charlatan merely in order to prolong your receipt of them . |
| 9 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 10 | It 's simply that the radio is turned up loud . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's simply that we all thought it so unnecessary , Mr Barnett . |
| 12 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 13 | , D O E. Er I 'm sure that members of the panel appreciate why I 've remained silent during the discussion of item two D , but does anyone in the room who does n't fully understand , it 's simply that the Secretary of State of exercises role in relation to a new settlement . |
| 14 | A much more likely explanation of Libet 's findings is simply that all experiences are delayed relative to the stimulus causing them , so that synchronous external events produce synchronous experiences . |
| 15 | The point is simply that the account of mental processes which folk psychology provides , constitutes an explanation at an appropriate level of abstraction for the purposes of explaining behaviour scientifically . |
| 16 | My view about the Matsushita response is simply that the Japanese higher education system generally requires knowledge of English , which seems at odds with the Technics explanation . |
| 17 | One is simply that you do n't need to have made a record or done anything very much except earned a local reputation as a watchable band playing original material . |
| 18 | Fforde 's error ( and Eccleshall makes the same mistake ) is simply that the ‘ orthodoxy ’ which Dicey and his friends in the LPDL espoused was not Conservatism but classical mid-Victorian Liberalism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The core of the problem is simply that the judiciary is the creature of the legal profession . |
| 21 | The sentiment expressed in the phrase is simply that a strong EC should lay these foundations for the whole continent . |
| 22 | The second reason for the constancy is simply that the ocean is heated from above , by the Sun . |
| 23 | The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case . |
| 24 | The reason many directors resist starting a pension scheme is simply that it takes money out of the business for example , for expansion . |
| 25 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 26 | The rule is simply that one uses as many digits as are in the final number ( three digits if in hundreds , four if in thousands , and so on ) and then uses the random numbers in appropriate sets . |
| 27 | One 's reason for doubt lies not merely in the way selection is made : it is simply that those selected have to be very independent indeed to withstand or divert the direction pushed by permanent staff , all of whom seem already to be behaving with unwonted circumspection . |
| 28 | The interest of UE is simply that it follows Gaius , and keeps to the basic wordings . |
| 29 | The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir . |
| 30 | But the real explanation , it seems , is simply that the Evening Standard 's Commuter Club has begun to highlight all LT 's deficiencies . |