Example sentences of "is precisely [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 2 | It is precisely because of them that any progress at all has been accomplished in matters of racial discourse . |
| 3 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 4 | It is precisely because of Government policy . |
| 5 | It is precisely because of this danger that extreme measures are needed to suppress the savage . |
| 6 | It is precisely because of our wish to create the sort of free market and wide community that we have in mind that we have included , at our insistence and with the agreement of other colleagues , a declaration in the presidency conclusions about the future enlargement of the Community . |
| 7 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |
| 8 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |