Example sentences of "it is basically a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is basically a 3-digit code with an optional decimal figure for greater detail .
2 It is basically a single very wide village street , with some sturdy and impressive old houses in it , dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries .
3 Like other Pyrenean spas , it is basically a single street of high hotels or ‘ residences ’ strung out between the mountainside behind and the river below .
4 It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason .
5 It is basically a German cathedral as it was mainly built by Germans , but it clearly owes a great deal to the influence of French cathedral design .
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