Example sentences of "be essentially [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surviving network of ditches on the Monmouthshire Levels beside the Bristol Channel is essentially that dug by the Benedictines in the twelfth century . |
| 2 | The argument here is essentially that a gradation scheme might lead to a lighter sentence in certain cases than would otherwise have been imposed . |
| 3 | The reason for this is essentially that if expectations are rational , the government has an incentive to ‘ cheat ’ on its monetary rule which it does not have under other forms of expectations formation . |
| 4 | It is essentially that the technological and organisational changes accompanying the factory system were to invert the previous relationship of supply and demand . |
| 5 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |