Example sentences of "be [adj] precisely [conj] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Films as varied as The 39 Steps , The Wicked Lady , Brief Encounter , The Red Shoes , The fallen Idol , The Spanish Gardener , Accident , The Draughtsman 's Contract , Another Time , Another Place and A fish Called Wanda are exciting precisely because they work to expose the social and cultural constraints to the expression of emotion , showing up the tension between the bland exterior and the seething interior . |
| 2 | This ‘ mobility gap ’ separates the occupied ‘ delocalised ’ states that contain the mobile electrons ( and are so-called precisely because they can move around in the semiconductor ) from vacant delocalised states in higher Landau levels . |
| 3 | Such family connections were very different from those in one-industry occupational communities and are important precisely because they are the basis of interaction in civil society and relate to political action . |
| 4 | And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures . |
| 5 | Planning systems , by contrast , are defective precisely because they are based on the synoptic delusion . |
| 6 | But , as Freud pointed out , things are taboo precisely because they are exciting , otherwise they need not be prohibited . ’ |