Example sentences of "[was/were] simply that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of the title were simply that an organisation had extended its activities beyond exporting to consider markets distinct from its own domestic market . |
| 2 | ‘ If it were simply that it would hardly be convincing , would it ? ’ |
| 3 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |
| 4 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 5 | Perhaps the enormity of what he was doing got to him — the difference , perhaps between hardened professional and gifted amateur — or perhaps it was simply that the holes became too tough for him . |
| 6 | It was simply that the squalor of her house did not affect her . |
| 7 | It was simply that he could think of no other way of prolonging her absence from him indefinitely . |
| 8 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 9 | A fourth reason was simply that the lobon-gur mixture was not very pleasant to taste . |
| 10 | It was simply that he had begun to fear we had arranged this with Flora : as if , in his mind , he could hear her saying , oh yes , what a splendid idea , I shall be bored with young Adam by Fez … |
| 11 | Youthful confidence , I suppose , or perhaps it was simply that I felt I had no alternative , there was nothing else I could do . ’ |
| 12 | The consensus was simply that Hollywood had lost track of what people really wanted but there were also a number of other notions . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp was the most obvious absentee from the Common Open Software Environment jamboree last week ( CI No 2,130 ) : was it , as some have said , that DEC was steering clear of anything that might damage Microsoft 's Windows NT ? — apparently not — DEC says it was simply that no one invited to join until the day before the launch . |
| 14 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 15 | It was simply that a bottle of brandy , even of the kind intended only for the kitchen ( by which I do n't mean something not fit to drink , I mean something one prefers not to drink ) , somehow always turns out in fact to have been drunk by somebody just when it is needed for cooking and has n't been replaced , while whisky is a supply which is more or less automatically re-ordered as soon as it runs out . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was simply that he had not spoken very well , being new to it , and they felt that he was not up to their fine ways ? |
| 17 | One was simply that there were n't enough of them , particularly at C : |
| 18 | In many ways one could argue that there was nothing new in the FMI ; it was simply that many of these changes were almost two decades late in being recommended since they closely resemble many of the proposals contained in the Fulton Committee Report of 1968 ( Cmnd. 3638 ) . |
| 19 | In part , of course , the problem was simply that the Soviet archives were inaccessible to western scholars , while during the Stalin era the documents and memoirs published in the Soviet Union were sparse and manifestly tendentious . |
| 20 | It was simply that the Katherine he saw through Thomas seemed a stranger . |
| 21 | Basically that argument was simply that the country could not afford to go on expanding non-productive sectors such as social services . |
| 22 | It was simply that he could judge such things after living so closely with her for however many years . |
| 23 | No , it was simply that they could n't apply it . |
| 24 | The conclusion given in both the Johansson studies was simply that the probability of a driver actually detecting a road sign is extremely low , but that some signs are more likely to be detected than others . |
| 25 | The reason that an extremely lenient criterion was adopted was simply that subjects generally gave very little detail about the situations they actually recalled correctly . |
| 26 | The most important finding from this study was simply that drivers were able to comfortably give ratings of subjective risk . |
| 27 | For a moment Robert thought she might have had her feet bound , and then he realized that her problem was simply that her face-mask was now so in line with Islamic law that her field of vision was only about six inches to the left and right of her . |
| 28 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 29 | Erm first of all if I may just er point out that the example I put with my paper that I have submitted today , and I thank you for the er indulgence in allowing me to produce it so late , was simply that there was one particular appeal of decision where an inspector remarked particularly on the lack of a local or a development plan policy relating to generally relating to the countryside . |
| 30 | But she knew it was n't an increase in affection — it was simply that he represented safety . |