Example sentences of "be precisely [conj] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus nobody seems to notice that the oddest thing about the STV is precisely that it is a single vote — for that is what it is , no matter how many preferences are expressed . |
| 2 | If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you . |
| 3 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 4 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 5 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |