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

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1 It 's basically a pre-programmed spreadsheet with over 1,600 formulae , so you do n't have to set up your own .
2 As for the CPC , it 's basically a slowed-down Spectrum — even Noel Edmonds wo n't give them away any more !
3 It 's basically a simple matter , ’ he said , banging his hand on the file of testimony he had produced for inspection .
4 It 's basically a literary more than a philosophical gift , but it was fantastically effective .
5 It 's basically a fine balance between being a good steward of what you have already acquired , and being something of a visionary .
6 It 's basically a gorgeous guitar with a great sound and a beautiful neck .
7 It 's basically a massive brick structure carrying the water of the Bear brook through Aylesbury .
8 It is basically a 3-digit code with an optional decimal figure for greater detail .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 It is basically an enabling measure to allow more discretion to local authorities to take measures , within a light regulatory framework , so that roads are more suited to the traffic using them , bearing in mind other road users , such as pedestrians and cyclists , and local people in villages and constituencies like that of my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham ( Mr. Conway ) .
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