Example sentences of "it [is] basically a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's basically a fine balance between being a good steward of what you have already acquired , and being something of a visionary . |
| 2 | It 's basically a very powerful anaesthetic . |
| 3 | It 's basically a 6-string guitar with two sets of crossed strings underneath and another set of plucked strings down where the volume and tone controls would be . |
| 4 | It 's basically a gorgeous guitar with a great sound and a beautiful neck . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's basically a question of budgets ’ , said director Robert T. Buck . |
| 6 | It 's basically a pre-programmed spreadsheet with over 1,600 formulae , so you do n't have to set up your own . |
| 7 | As for the CPC , it 's basically a slowed-down Spectrum — even Noel Edmonds wo n't give them away any more ! |
| 8 | Which is vag it 's basically a subset of Word . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's basically a simple matter , ’ he said , banging his hand on the file of testimony he had produced for inspection . |
| 10 | Four years down the line and , after all the campaigning , it 's basically a case of ‘ as you were ’ in Ulster 's district councils . |
| 11 | ‘ We are now concentrating on handling the business we already had on our books — it 's basically a tidying up operation . |
| 12 | The work they 've put in , erm , and obviously , if you give your support to erm , make them a grant , it 's basically a grant for adults . |
| 13 | Yeah n what you need to do is if you can look up the what the input parameters h how many input parameters there are , and if there are if if it 's basically a batch of twenty one parameters , er I can probably I 've probably got the source code for them . |
| 14 | Yes yeah it 's basically a question there to ensure that people do n't just put down that they 're whatever they 're doing just purely |
| 15 | It 's basically a massive brick structure carrying the water of the Bear brook through Aylesbury . |
| 16 | The play has pathos , says Judy , but it 's basically a comedy . |
| 17 | It 's basically a love story between him and a , see he 's a , he 's a cowboy officer , and she , she 's a Indian Squaw obviously , they fall in love and they all this sort of vote of comment on . |
| 18 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
| 19 | It 's basically a literary more than a philosophical gift , but it was fantastically effective . |
| 20 | It 's basically an Ibanez Joe Pass model , except that the pickup is in a more conventional position and it 's got a different neck on it . |
| 21 | It is basically a problem of the misuse of land … particularly in pastoral areas , much of the problem results from the customs , value systems and attitudes of the people concerning grazing lands and livestock , together with the lack of government mechanisms for effective control . |
| 22 | It is basically a ‘ history of the present ’ , a concept which poses problems of its own . ’ |
| 23 | Proportional or not , it is basically a numbers game . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is basically a way to associate tuples of real numbers |
| 29 | A single node will recognise something if at least a certain number of its inputs are on , so it is basically a counting device . |
| 30 | It is basically a call for people , oppressed people , to have more control over their own lives , to shape their world and to use modern resources and technology to do so . |