Sentence examples for A simple formality from inspiring English sources

This is a simple formality, no reason for you to feel anxious.

But when we looked into getting her a visa earlier this year – something I'd always assumed would be a simple formality – we discovered it would be impossible.

Flores also says the law's requirement that exploration will be subject to "independent Environmental Impact Assessments EIAis) is misleading because the government has turned the EIAs into a "simple formality", and SERNAP, which must evaluate the EIAs, has "no independence and does what the government wants".

[A Wayleave is a legal document requiring mutual agreement between the landlord and BT to grant access to the premises and carry out the required work. It should be a simple formality.] Feb 18: Exponential-E receive an estimate from BT that the landlord "should be in possession of the [Wayleave] documentation sometime [w/c 21 Feb]".

But hidden within such a seemingly simple formality is an opportunity to make a lasting impression.

In the deliberate, simple formality of its staging, in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against Robert Brill's bare-bones set, "Laramie" often brings to mind "Our Town," the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.

This step is a mere formality.

"The election is a mere formality".

The second round was a mere formality.

That a victory would prove a mere formality.

Their "ratification" is a mere formality.