Example sentences of "be [adj] precisely [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appeal of natural beauty may have been strong precisely because it was free of argument and doctrine ; it became a common denominator in the drive for moral and spiritual recovery . |
| 2 | Wordsworth 's poem could well be set as in Example 47 : Of course , this kind of writing can be highly poetic , but there is also a danger of falling into aimless meandering , or of not being memorable precisely because it has no metrical background . |
| 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 ability to extract is rare precisely because it may have to cut across these obvious parts . |
| 5 | 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 . |