Example sentences of "is precisely [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 2 | It is precisely because black workers have been kept away from these structures that they are now at the forefront of what has become one of the most political dispute in industrial history . |
| 3 | And he believes that it is precisely because black footballers know of each other 's natural ability , that they are able to construct the most intricate and seemingly planned movements without any preparation at all : ‘ They 've got the receivers built into their heads and can pick each other up on the same wavelength . ’ |
| 4 | It is precisely because all is not certain that we have to make certain . |
| 5 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |
| 6 | But it is precisely because many of us do that they are dangerous . |
| 7 | It is precisely because such a code does not exist , that we live in a period of uncertainty and experimentation . |
| 8 | It is precisely because Standard English serves as a wider language of wider communication for such an extensive and important range of purposes that children must learn to use it competently . |
| 9 | Yet it is precisely because this ideology is not lived up to in private , and because the state is involved both in its promulgation and its violation , that feminist theory can take a highly critical moral stance . |
| 10 | On the contrary , it is precisely because lone mothers are women that they have a very high risk of poverty . |
| 11 | It is precisely because British farmers have a competitive advantage in the production of sheepmeat , beef , cereals , dairy and other produce that it is in our interests to have a truly and genuinely single free and open common market in the EEC in agriculture produce . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is precisely because human beings can " change their minds " and " tell lies " that if you try to apply the methods of orthodox science to the study of human behaviour you will nearly always get it wrong . |