Example sentences of "is precisely [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it is precisely because many of us do that they are dangerous . |
| 32 | It is precisely because all is not certain that we have to make certain . |
| 33 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 34 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 35 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 36 | It is precisely because of them that any progress at all has been accomplished in matters of racial discourse . |
| 37 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 38 | It is precisely because our bodies and fantasies are so closely linked that feeling you do n't conform to the current ‘ skinny ’ aesthetic can have such detrimental effects on the way you feel about your body and concomittantly , yourself . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 41 | It is precisely because our modern economic system champions these things that we find so little community spirit alive in the advanced industrial societies . ) |
| 42 | Indeed as Neuhaus has recognised ( 1986 ) it is precisely because religion has been forced out of the central corridors of power in America that the New Religious Right has managed to stride in with such urgency and rage . |
| 43 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 44 | It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us . |
| 45 | It is precisely because so many of us experience the world of work , government , the military , multinational corporations , etc. as impersonal that we seek personal fulfilment in the private sphere of leisure and the family . |
| 46 | It is precisely because Standard English serves as a wider language of wider communication for such an extensive and important range of purposes that children must learn to use it competently . |
| 47 | And he believes that it is precisely because black footballers know of each other 's natural ability , that they are able to construct the most intricate and seemingly planned movements without any preparation at all : ‘ They 've got the receivers built into their heads and can pick each other up on the same wavelength . ’ |
| 48 | It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd 's years have been left open . |
| 49 | It is precisely because such a code does not exist , that we live in a period of uncertainty and experimentation . |
| 50 | It is precisely because there is no direct correlation of such a kind between genetic make-up and culture that we can afford to ignore race as a significant variable in our discussion of different social and cultural arrangements . |
| 51 | Yet it is precisely because this ideology is not lived up to in private , and because the state is involved both in its promulgation and its violation , that feminist theory can take a highly critical moral stance . |
| 52 | It is precisely because Herbert Marcuse , for example , has retained the notion of the death instincts that he is to be seen as having advanced psychoanalytic sociology and social philosophy . |
| 53 | You might be surprised that this needs mentioning ; but it is precisely because these same strategies are maladaptive in many domestic situations that horses are labelled stupid . |
| 54 | Much of this complexity and unpredictability is precisely because the intersection between the material and the ideological occurs in the practices of living human beings : offenders , sentencers , employees of the penal system , politicians and members of the public . |
| 55 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |
| 56 | On the contrary , it is precisely because lone mothers are women that they have a very high risk of poverty . |
| 57 | It is precisely because of Government policy . |
| 58 | Stewart ( 1989 ) argues that the call for leaders in the National Health Service is precisely because the National Health Service increasingly operates within an uncertain and changing environment . |
| 59 | It is precisely because human beings can " change their minds " and " tell lies " that if you try to apply the methods of orthodox science to the study of human behaviour you will nearly always get it wrong . |
| 60 | It is precisely because prisoners are shut away , lacking legal , moral and political respectability , held at the mercy of , and dependent on the goodwill of , the State , that a case can be made for vesting special positive rights in prisoners . |