Example sentences of "is [adj] precisely [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 2 | This section is possible precisely because the unity of the whole is an expressive totality , that is ‘ a totality all of whose parts are so many ‘ total parts ’ each expressing the others , and each expressing the social totality that contains them , because each in itself contains in the immediate form of its expression the essence of the totality itself ’ ( 94 ) . |
| 3 | James Thorne 's discussion of the long-standing debate over the interpretation of Robert Frost 's " stopping by woods " is instructive precisely because , among other things , it recognises the limitations of a stylistics that aims , or claims , to be objective and exhaustive , and because it highlights the need to be selective in description and open to the coexistence of multiple meanings in interpretation . |
| 4 | Dicey is important precisely because he expressed both the form and substance of normativism in a clear and simple manner . |
| 5 | The whole process is inescapable precisely because more and more people want it to be so . |
| 6 | Current gain is 16 precisely and output voltage lies between — 8V and +25V . |
| 7 | Science ultimately is self-contradictory precisely because , although it begins with a supposal about reality , it also depends upon a concrete reality ; and once scientists admit the necessarily hypothetical character of that knowledge , they cease to be scientists . |
| 8 | The ability to extract is rare precisely because it may have to cut across these obvious parts . |