Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] were exactly " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had four days together before they had to leave for Estoril and the pre-race qualifying sessions , and by the end of them Kate had to admit that the naïve dreams she 'd had of becoming irresistible to this man were exactly that , and extremely unrealistic into the bargain . |
| 2 | as if this further proposition were not strong enough , Friedman went on to claim yet another property for the natural rate : the natural unemployment rate was that unique rate at which inflationary expectations were exactly fulfilled and hence was that unique rate at which agents had no incentive to revise their expectations of inflation either upwards or downwards . |
| 3 | I did n't know ( still do n't ) if these insects were exactly the same as my original , " lost chords of Zarathustra " insects , or whether they were superficially " convergent " ( see next chapter ) , but it was good enough . |
| 4 | But 240–200 B.C. were exactly the years in which Greek epics , tragedy , comedy and historiography became part of the Roman way of life . |
| 5 | It was an implicit assumption of much of the early research carried out in psycholinguistics in the 1960s ( see Greene , 1972 for a review ) that certain syntactic forms were exactly equivalent in meaning . |
| 6 | Her relations with the real live Patrick were exactly as before . |
| 7 | But the high ceilings , airy rooms and appealing features were exactly what Geoff was looking for . |
| 8 | But even if American consumers were exactly like their British counterparts , Brooks Brothers would be heading for a fall . |