Example sentences of "[is] basically a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The quadriathlon , still in its infancy , is basically a triathlon with a gruelling canoe leg thrown in for good measure , and East Anglia has one of the leading exponents in this new sport . |
| 32 | The Child 's Game is basically a free play situation where the child chooses any series of activities for 10–15 minutes during which the parent will join in under the child 's direction . |
| 33 | ’ Note the ‘ We 're not going heavy ’ sweetener to the Blue Mink and Cilla fans in amongst what is basically a declaration of the paper 's commitment to weirdo shit and Jethro Tull ! |
| 34 | A dawg is basically a trie where all equivalent sub-tries ( i.e. identical patterns of acceptable word endings ) have been merged . |
| 35 | The Asian elephant is basically a jungle-living animal , lying up in shade during the day and feeding mostly when it gets cool . |
| 36 | ‘ That is basically a house track incorporated with hardcore , ’ explains Sam . |
| 37 | Bone meal is basically a phosphate source , but with sometimes a little nitrogen depending upon the source . |
| 38 | The second new router , the Model 7250 , is designed as a low-cost high-performance feeder node for the other RX 7000 models , and is basically a three-port version of the Model 7500 : it holds one forwarding processor and up to three interface cards which — as with the rest of the family — can be any mix of Ethernet , Token Ring or wide area interfaces . |
| 39 | DataServe for VME , the base software product , provides what is basically a remote procedure call mechanism for VME , and opens up corporate data stored on ICL 's IDMSX mainframe data stores to different environments . |
| 40 | This is basically a normal 486 PC with a larger than normal hard disk and a cheap network interface card . |
| 41 | A bus topology is basically a straight wire with workstations situated at intervals along its length and terminators at either end |
| 42 | The dressing table itself is basically a worktop : either a length of kitchen worktop or make from the same material as the rest of the system . |
| 43 | It is basically a ‘ history of the present ’ , a concept which poses problems of its own . ’ |
| 44 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 45 | The ‘ long copy ’ debate is basically a print debate , though it can apply to radio and , to an extent , TV . |
| 46 | The general thrust can be seen intuitively by supposing that inference is basically a matter of moving from premises to conclusion along an acceptable path . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Pharmacology is basically a practical subject and if anything there is pressure for this part to increase . |
| 51 | The step-printer is basically a camera combined with one or more projectors . |
| 52 | But the effects described in this chapter depend essentially on the camera , projector and optical printer which , as we 've seen , is basically a combination of these ) , and the ‘ glass shot ’ , or matte painting , is only a partial exception . |
| 53 | As we have seen , a matte is basically a mask ( for example , a black card , or a painting on glass left partially clear ) that blacks off a part of the frame or , usually , part of a whole succession of frames . |
| 54 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 55 | But , again , it will not be as easy to lay down rules for writing it , since it is basically a version of the blueprint detective story but with all its rules loosened . |
| 56 | I love it because it 's Christian and Christmas to me is basically a traditional Christian festival , and that 's the part of it that I enjoy . |
| 57 | Well , E N V Three is basically a damage limitation exercise , and I think that erm the qualities of this area are so great that er it would be im impossible to envisage |
| 58 | It is basically a way to associate tuples of real numbers |
| 59 | A single node will recognise something if at least a certain number of its inputs are on , so it is basically a counting device . |
| 60 | Windows for Pens is basically a set of extensions to Windows 3.1 which does two things . |