Example sentences of "is precisely [conj] it be " 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 That is a slightly odd point from a Labour Member in view of the fact that the SERPS entitlement of such people , which is what the original question was about , is precisely as it was left by the Labour Government .
3 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 .
4 It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification .
5 But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding .
6 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 .
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