The phrase "a simple event" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an occurrence that is straightforward or uncomplicated.
Example: "The birthday party was a simple event, with just a few friends and a cake."
Alternatives: "an uncomplicated occurrence" or "a straightforward incident".
On the surface it was a simple event, promising a modicum of recovery in a region in ruins.
She was conducting a "Congress on Your Corner" at the Douglas Safeway — a simple event where people line up to get help with things like Social Security or documentation.
The McLaren-Mercedes was hopeless but, just as Lewis Hamilton thought life could not get any tougher for a reigning world champion, a simple event occurred that would have huge repercussions.
Speaking in front of an illuminated legend proclaiming "Women raising their voices for a new Northern Ireland," she told the gathering of how a simple event that she had taken part in here two years ago -- the opening of a playground in a conflicted part of Belfast for use by both Catholic and Protestant children -- had resonated in far-off places.
His book "The Art of Fiction," published posthumously in 1983 (he died in a motorcycle accident in 1982), concludes with a list of writing exercises, such as: 2. Take a simple event: A man gets off a bus, trips, looks around in embarrassment, and sees a woman smiling.... Describe this event, using the same characters and elements of setting, in five completely different ways.
Therefore, a current working definition of domestication may include concept of processes (ongoing selection), but not a simple event.
We took theoretical research out into the real world and investigated the role of top-down factors on event completion by testing three groups with a differing level of interest and experience (novices, players, and FIFA referees) on a simple event-completion task (Strickland & Keil, 2011).
Different from the existing event-driven control approaches for systems with completely unknown nonlinearities, the main contribution of this paper is to design a simple event-based tracking scheme with preassigned performance, without the use of adaptive function approximators and adaptive mirror models.
Previously, we have examined the way in which different sub-regions of the frontoparietal network tune to respond selectively to the presentation of a frequently redefined target object whilst undertaking a simple event-related fMRI task [11].
Carp [ 7] examined a simple event-related design using common neuroimaging tools, but varying the available settings (see also [ 8]).
The phase-encoded paradigm is less sensitive than a simple event-related or block paradigm would be for quantifying response gain but we found that sensitivity was nonetheless adequate and so we decided against performing new experiments.
