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Example sentences for "simply because"

  • All these three prophets speak in present time of a future event, simply because of the settled and unalterable purpose of God, acting not formally as a sovereign, but as a judge.

  • Such an interpretation, however, is preposterous; simply because according to this hypothesis, they never lived at all!

  • We humbly suggest that neither is the formal object without the other, simply because the same individuals constitute the complex moral person.

  • Simply because of my reluctance to read my books my parents have, on repeated occasions, extended to me injunction and reprimand, and would I have the courage to go so far as to rashly plunge in lewd habits?

  • I cannot hold that it originated in Nature-worship, simply because I can find no evidence of such an origin.

  • People believe it and think it is convincing, simply because it bears the name of a Greek philosopher.

  • So man chooses by his own determination, and yet God knows beforehand which way he is going to choose, simply because he sees into the future as we remember the past.

  • He sees the difficulty of reconciling this with man's freedom, but is not ready to sacrifice either, and like Maimonides decides that we must not deny it simply because we cannot understand it.

  • I am afraid he will never return, simply because, if he had meant to come back, he would never have gone away.

  • Simply because he thinks you know something that he doesn't know.

  • She called him Peter, simply because it had been her custom so to do during the period of nearly fifty years in which they had lived in the same parish as brother and sister.

  • Simply because, here too, the mind is empty and void, and so the man is bored with existence.

  • Countless numbers of people find themselves in want, simply because, when they had money, they spent it only to get momentary relief from the feeling of boredom which oppressed them.

  • But the air does not get warmed to the same degree, simply because, owing to its rarity and relative dryness, it fails to retain any portion of the heat which passes through it.

  • We now know that there can be no cavities more than a few miles below the crust of a planet, simply because, under the enormous pressures which would exist, the most solid matter would be perfectly plastic.

  • It would almost seem, though to the faithful Swedenborgian the thought will doubtless appear very wicked, that the system of Swedenborg gave no place to Uranus and Neptune, simply because he knew nothing about those planets.

  • And that half-hour he had lost over an irrational plan, simply because he had thought of it in delirium!

  • People think he does it from slavish politeness, but it's simply because he is ashamed of his bird's nest; he is such a boastful fellow!

  • And if this could be explained to the jury, surely the jury would not give a verdict against him on insufficient evidence, simply because he had done his duty in paying the money!

  • Simply because I may have to take an active part against you.

  • It was said of him that no one knew whether he called himself Liberal or Conservative At fifty-five he was put upon the bench, simply because he was supposed to possess a judicial mind.

  • Simply because I gave orders that no conversation was to be held with him; and to see that my orders were carried out, I sat up with him on the night that he died.

  • And I suppose that you think I am not doing my duty, simply because I am resting my weary form?

  • I have known teams to be stopped, and obliged to seek a route on the prairie, simply because a large number of snakes were not disposed to yield the right of way.

  • Be assured that the commissioner winks at the operations of the disaffected, simply because he can crush them more effectually if cooped up, than displayed upon the plain.

  • He is depressed and gloomy and out of harmony with the world, simply because he has no other standard for a good living than a financial one.

  • Simply because of his standard of what constitutes a good living.

  • It is a question whether any great thinker will be anything but obscure at times; simply because he is possessed by conceptions beyond his powers of expression.

  • Do you mean to say that Carlotta Deschamps and my own maid have conspired together to poison me simply because I am going to sing in a certain piece at a certain theatre?

  • Simply because, having them, I have a sort of feeling that they ought to be used.

  • I had wished not to go at all, simply because I was inexperienced and nervous; but both he and his wife were so good-natured and so obviously anxious to be friendly, that I felt bound to appear, if only for a short time.

  • Everyone in anywise interested, practically or theoretically, in the Great War, is just now prophesying of the future, simply because it looks vaguer and dimmer than ever.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and gave; being drawn; blue silk; builders were; can get; could walk; feet above; get some; great master; heart seemed; like forms; looking young; scientific knowledge; seemed likely; simply because; simply couldn; sulphuric acid; taken into; this idea; two sockets under one; under circumstances; what had; will visit