Example sentences of "[coord] it is precisely " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposition put forward by this view is that technology shapes the problems , demands and forms of organisation of workers and it is precisely the levels of technology that vary so much between the modern , dynamic , industrial sector and traditional areas . |
| 2 | In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Basil might say , " If a child cries for gold , give it a yellow leaf " — and it is precisely this metaphoric quality that I would emphasise against the purely observational . |
| 5 | Durability has at all times been a main attribute of the materials held in highest regard and it is precisely the most durable things that have most chance of surviving . |
| 6 | Further mechanization will enable farmers to cope with a reduced quantity of labour , but further mechanization will require a finer quality of labour — and it is precisely the highly educated and the highly trained who currently shun working on the land . |
| 7 | And it is precisely its predictability which renders it impotent . |
| 8 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 9 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |
| 10 | But it is precisely the possibility of being wrong in believing that someone loves us that makes it appropriate to talk in this context of trust . |
| 11 | But it is precisely on the global aims , the actual purpose of education , that agreement seems impossible . |
| 12 | But it is precisely because many of us do that they are dangerous . |
| 13 | But it is precisely this problematic relationship between language and reality that instead of rendering the term theoretically redundant exemplifies one of the problems implicit in all urban social theory but addressed only occasionally . |
| 14 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 15 | But it is precisely the sort of presupposition which anthropologists should challenge , allowing , as it does , so little place for a social construction of knowledge and values and so much for ( unexplained ) ‘ human nature ’ . |
| 16 | But it is precisely those antibodies which and dismiss to cavalierly as unimportant for prevention of progression of HIV disease ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But it is precisely the fact that observation statements are fallible , and their acceptance only tentative and open to revision , that undermines the falsificationist position . |
| 19 | ‘ But it is precisely those weather conditions , ’ said Lydia carefully , ‘ which make the countryside so unusually beautiful . |
| 20 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 21 | ‘ But it is precisely that . ’ |