Example sentences of "is exactly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pubs are , to quote Ben Davis , ‘ the public buildings in which people feel most at home ’ , and in its truest sense the public house is exactly what it says — a house for the public . |
| 2 | Having this kind of information conveniently available is exactly what Catering & Allied needed . |
| 3 | No dinner menu at the old Rectory is exactly the same twice over . |
| 4 | A bush tree is exactly what you would expect it to be ( bushy ) , but at the right height for picking and pruning comfortably . |
| 5 | He once said that his ambition was to make of it ‘ the Cathedral Synagogue of Canada , ’ and that is exactly what happened . |
| 6 | It is exactly this power that the nominalist is trying to analyse and explain . |
| 7 | The problem for the associationalist is exactly mirrored in those theories of thought and mind inspired by computers and artificial intelligence . |
| 8 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 9 | . ‘ ‘ The added coverage is exactly what I wanted ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ This result is exactly what I was looking for , ’ Prost said . |
| 11 | Well , flashy is exactly the word that fits the image Mr Rogich portrays . |
| 12 | That is exactly what has happened . |
| 13 | Yet the opposition 's message is exactly the reverse . ’ |
| 14 | WILFRED THESIGER is exactly the kind of person television companies like to make films about . |
| 15 | It is exactly the kind of thing a truly determined and environmentally conscious government could get on with and do . |
| 16 | It is exactly the equality before the law , which Ms Pith-Helmet invests with so much trust , that has betrayed blacks and Asians in the courts , in their treatment at the hands of vicious and prejudiced police ( that has resulted in the death of 10 blacks at the hands of police during the course of arrest and interrogation in the last 15 years ) , that allows black and Asian homes to be terrorised by racist thugs who can sprinkle liberally their British hospitality in the form of firebombs , beatings , excrement dumped on doors , and children bullied to the point of suicide and madness . |
| 17 | A child 's need to understand its situation is not going to destroy the new relationship : trying to live out the fantasy that this is exactly the same as a birth relationship may well do . |
| 18 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 19 | Article 25 is exactly of this character . |
| 20 | Copyright is exactly what it says : it is the right to copy . |
| 21 | From my point of view that is exactly why he should be taken seriously , and not only because of his apparent prestige . |
| 22 | Such a view is of course anachronistic , but this is exactly the attraction of Gironella 's reworkings — he can present us with shifting visions of the art of the past , from within and from without , exploiting contrary responses , period eye and innocent eye . |
| 23 | One tester described the SL 's cabin as ‘ implausibly close to perfection ’ , and for drivers under six foot , that is exactly right . |
| 24 | That is exactly the right word . |
| 25 | ‘ My own empirical self is becoming more important , ’ he wrote to Barfield , ‘ and this is exactly the opposite of self-love . ’ |
| 26 | Though over the years , from Southend to Tyneside and the Government 's own Property Services Agency , there 's all too much evidence that this is exactly what we do have . |
| 27 | That it is sustained almost to the point of embarrassment is exactly what is so good about it , since discomfort is the name of this film 's particular game . |
| 28 | It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone . |
| 29 | He was involved in the building of nearby Lyndon Hall , which is exactly like South Luffenham in every detail except that the latter has five bays on each side and Lyndon has seven . |
| 30 | By definition , that is exactly what Mr Hussein would look like if linkage worked . |