Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] be precisely " in BNC.
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| 1 | This opportunity to strike out for independence was precisely what her fiery Arien temperament craved ! |
| 2 | The victory of course is precisely what was required . |
| 3 | It would of course be precisely different from the idea that a complete causal circumstance produces its effect and an incomplete one does n't . |
| 4 | The task of bureaucracy was precisely to maintain a system of social relations which consolidate class domination . |
| 5 | ‘ A crucial problem in the law of rape is precisely that it focuses unswervingly upon the non-consent of the complainant . |
| 6 | Matilda was the first English princess since the seventh century whose year of birth is precisely known ; as for her youthful marriage , this appears to have been becoming commoner as marriage alliances were sought with ever more reckless haste by the great dynasts of the twelfth century . |
| 7 | ‘ However much analogy may lead us to conjecture the universal prevalence of law and orderly sequence , it has been acutely remarked that the phenomena which are most immediately important to the life and welfare of man are precisely those which he has never been , and probably never will be , able to reduce to a scientific calculation . |
| 8 | This intimate connection between the metaphysics of death and the politics of life is precisely what Nizan has in mind when he refers to revolutionary literature as " the modern form of tragedy " . |
| 9 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 10 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 11 | Furthermore the new clinical grading structure makes skillmix exercises easier to undertake , since the responsibilities expected from each grade of nurse are precisely spelt out . |
| 12 | The fact that most of us , most of the time , do not translate these capabilities into action is precisely what is seen as needing an explanation . |
| 13 | And Notes from Underground is precisely such a fable of disembodied consciousness . |
| 14 | The sequence of amino acids in turn is precisely determined by the code symbols in a length of DNA ( via RNA as an intermediary ) . |
| 15 | What is at issue is precisely the ‘ cultural ’ context in which these solutions have to work . |