Example sentences of "but this [is] exactly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a view is of course anachronistic , but this is exactly the attraction of Gironella 's reworkings — he can present us with shifting visions of the art of the past , from within and from without , exploiting contrary responses , period eye and innocent eye . |
| 2 | REFUSING drugs to a person who needs them is a disgrace to the medical profession — but this is exactly what some heart-care units in opt-out hospitals are doing . |
| 3 | Certainly some seed was wasted but this is exactly what used to happen . |
| 4 | But this is exactly the kind of quality of which Paul is speaking . |
| 5 | dir : Your programme for looking at process is all very well , but this is exactly what your lot , medical sociologists , have ignored . |
| 6 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 7 | But this is exactly what large sections of the media , especially given Manchester City Council 's refusal to publish the full report for fear of litigation , took to be the real meaning of the report . |
| 8 | I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved . |
| 9 | But this is exactly what we might have expected : with the emergence of the black British identity has come a matching linguistic persona , neither London nor Jamaican , but " London Jamaican " . |