Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] precisely " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to be expected , since the purpose of a domain-specific dictionary is to capture precisely those collocations that are specific to and therefore representative of that domain , in preference to any others with which the individual words may otherwise be associated . |
| 2 | With the half-stepping excitation scheme , for example , the pull-out torque is predicted precisely from the d.c. and fundamental current components . |
| 3 | It is absolutely crucial to the lives of the small creatures that the rock is returned precisely where it was found . |
| 4 | It is a process analogous in some ways to story-telling , where the point is made precisely through a sacrifice of the kind of literalness and explicitness which the logician , by the nature of his training , tends to regard as the ultimate requirement of clarity , and indeed an intrinsic feature of truth . |
| 5 | Lawrence Stone has suggested that this sort of argument is misconceived precisely because ‘ sex love ’ as the basis of relationships was first ideologically articulated in the bourgeoisie . |
| 6 | The shareholders could also be passive because the manager is doing precisely what they require for high returns on that money . |
| 7 | This kind of development characterized the transition from absolution to liberalism , just as the re-emergence of bureaucratic power has marked the transition from the liberal to the interventionist state of monopoly capitalism : ‘ in the last analysis this democracy was erected precisely in order to place institutional limits upon the privileges bequeathed to the administration by the Absolutist State ’ ( Poulantzas 1978 , p. 226 ) . |
| 8 | This method was duplicated precisely in Stalin 's Russia , in which children who had betrayed their parents were celebrated , and where the secret service set up its own subversive societies to encourage traitors to show themselves . |
| 9 | The further away in time the message was situated , the less likely the speaker is to remember precisely the date and time at which it occurred , and the larger the time-span he is likely to make available for it to have occurred in . |
| 10 | The standard defence of the modernist novel is based precisely upon these qualities , on its formal complexity and difficulty : the ‘ revolution of the word ’ is seen as either essential to , or more important than , any political revolution . |
| 11 | How , though , would the method used here perform if applied to a subject right in the middle of complex situational change , where the social formation and the musical culture are characterized precisely by heterogeneity and seemingly transient affiliations ? |
| 12 | This generally has something to do with the actual failure , but it is possible that the fault is not accurately reflected in this message , so do n't assume that the problem is pin-pointed precisely every time by these messages . |
| 13 | The purpose was to discover precisely how important qualifications were in determining their occupational chances . |
| 14 | The Plant Commission on electoral reform did not stimulate an internal debate in the party , because its real function was to do precisely the opposite . |
| 15 | To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing , for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer . |
| 16 | The next stage is to cut precisely to the right length and to link it up with the sound track . |
| 17 | The technique of civil disobedience was applied precisely because decency was so evidently not enough , or , looking at it another way , because there was so evidently not enough decency . |