Example sentences of "is precisely [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 One of the problems of the dependency approach is precisely that its proponents too often speak about one country as dependent on another in a vague and unhelpful fashion .
2 He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts .
3 It is precisely because our bodies and fantasies are so closely linked that feeling you do n't conform to the current ‘ skinny ’ aesthetic can have such detrimental effects on the way you feel about your body and concomittantly , yourself .
4 It is precisely because our modern economic system champions these things that we find so little community spirit alive in the advanced industrial societies . )
5 It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us .
6 It is precisely because our own human senses are not capable of doing what bats do that we find it hard to believe .
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