Example sentences of "be precisely because " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture . |
| 2 | I think if Jeff Beck ever remembered having met me it would be precisely because I did n't crawl all over him in sycophancy . |
| 3 | If it stimulates you to dissent , it is precisely because it is so closely pondered in its own terms and it never , throughout its four hours , loosens its grip on you . |
| 4 | It is precisely because Mr Mugabe 's record is , in context , more than respectable , that the current repressive mood demonstrated by his government is disappointing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is precisely because Berlin is such a true mirror of so much European history that it always seems to embody so much of the darker , subconscious side of the European identity . |
| 7 | It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’ |
| 8 | Joel Weiner , marketing executive of Kraft General Foods It is precisely because we are not complacent about this issue that the Government have been preparing a major Food Bill since October 1987 . |
| 9 | It is precisely because they are innate , Lowde said , that they are obvious and self-evident to us . |
| 10 | While in Germany ‘ there is much common ground between the Bundesbank and the government on economic objectives ’ , it is precisely because Pöhl knew that this national consensus did not exist in the Community at large that he and the German government insisted on means of enforcing German policies on the economies of the member states . |
| 11 | It is precisely because I care about the future of humanity that I am undertaking this work . ’ |
| 12 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 13 | However , it is precisely because a contract is such a detached , objective way of dealing with emotional issues that it can work . |
| 14 | But it is precisely because many of us do that they are dangerous . |
| 15 | It is precisely because all is not certain that we have to make certain . |
| 16 | It is precisely because he knew who God was that he knew he could trust God in the dark . |
| 17 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | It is precisely because of them that any progress at all has been accomplished in matters of racial discourse . |
| 20 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is precisely because our modern economic system champions these things that we find so little community spirit alive in the advanced industrial societies . ) |
| 25 | Indeed as Neuhaus has recognised ( 1986 ) it is precisely because religion has been forced out of the central corridors of power in America that the New Religious Right has managed to stride in with such urgency and rage . |
| 26 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 27 | It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us . |
| 28 | It is precisely because so many of us experience the world of work , government , the military , multinational corporations , etc. as impersonal that we seek personal fulfilment in the private sphere of leisure and the family . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |