Example sentences of "[conj] this [is] precisely " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the fact that INSET was only one integral aspect of a very large and complex package of PNP resources , it is difficult to pinpoint its unique effect on daily practice in the Authority , although this is precisely the task we undertook in relation to one major series of courses for our sixth and tenth reports . |
| 2 | And if retailers do indeed start charging less for cash purchases than for those bought on credit cards , ensure that this is precisely what they are doing and not merely surcharging credit card users . |
| 3 | And our dilemma is that this is precisely what we do with it . |
| 4 | ‘ And may I suggest that this is precisely the kind of overheated sensational attitude I would most strongly deplore . |
| 5 | The purring animal is relaxed , and common sense demands that this is precisely the time when any blood turbulence would subside , not increase . |
| 6 | Indeed , it has been suggested that this is precisely how lion prides arose , many years ago on the prey-rich plains of Africa , where the surplus of food led to an unusual increase in the lion population . |
| 7 | The atmosphere is hardly lightened when guitarist Alex Lee takes a pissed stagediver to task , but one suspects that this is precisely the kind of turmoil Strangelove get their kicks from . |
| 8 | Moore claims that this is precisely the role played by pleasure in all very great goods with which we are familiar . |
| 9 | This emphasis on control , despite all the evidence that this is precisely what is being progressively lost , focusses the sufferer 's mind all the time on self and not upon others . |
| 10 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 11 | The answer , in institutional terms , is almost nothing at all — and this is precisely the problem . |
| 12 | And this is precisely what he has done , to present everyone else with a fait accompli . |
| 13 | The key to any data base system is information retrieval , and this is precisely how HERMS helps the designer . |
| 14 | The point is that a " pluralistic " inference is based on the assumption that such relations depict an objective order of things " out there " , not merely our own impression of such an order , and this is precisely where the main difficulty lies . |
| 15 | This is what dealers always try to do and this is precisely where women artists so often fall down . |
| 16 | And this is precisely the conclusion that Evans reaches in his more recent work on the computer industries of Brazil and South Korea ( Evans and Bastos Tigre , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do . |
| 18 | And this is precisely what has happened in the stockmarket . |
| 19 | It is quite an achievement to upstage the assembled might of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Rattle , not to mention Maria Ewing as second soprano , but this is precisely what Barbara Bonney , standing in for an indisposed Lillian Watson , did . |
| 20 | But this is precisely what Mr Papandreou is doing . |
| 21 | But this is precisely the situation used in our telephone work , and the dialogues resulting from this are of a different nature . |
| 22 | The recent history of community care projects has not been encouraging ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 22 ) But this is precisely the sort of area to which research needs to be directed in the immediate future of relative demographic stability , because it is so crucial and because our ignorance of future patterns of demand is so great . |
| 23 | But this is precisely the type of assumption statistical calculations of age-related dependency ask us to make . |
| 24 | But this is precisely the kind of war least suited to either deterring or repelling regional aggressions . |
| 25 | But this is precisely what economic income is . |
| 26 | Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history . |