Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] precisely [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole process is inescapable precisely because more and more people want it to be so . |
| 2 | The classical tradition held that Nature became beautiful only when subjected to reason ; the romantic view , that Nature was beautiful precisely because she was uncontrolled and was therefore in opposition to Reason . |
| 3 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 4 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 5 | Current gain is 16 precisely and output voltage lies between — 8V and +25V . |
| 6 | Dicey is important precisely because he expressed both the form and substance of normativism in a clear and simple manner . |
| 7 | This section is possible precisely because the unity of the whole is an expressive totality , that is ‘ a totality all of whose parts are so many ‘ total parts ’ each expressing the others , and each expressing the social totality that contains them , because each in itself contains in the immediate form of its expression the essence of the totality itself ’ ( 94 ) . |