Example sentences of "is exactly [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know how long it 's going to go on for , or what it is exactly but I thought it would be a good idea to ring your dad up and see .
2 The Architecture Neutral Distribution Format-like technology that Unix System Laboratories Inc has up its sleeve so that one port of an application to its Destiny desktop implementation will run on the disparate architectures of the Intel Corp iAPX-86 , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard PA RISC and IBM RS/6000 architectures ( UX No 380 ) is exactly that : ANDF-like .
3 Not one candidate in a hundred gives an answer comparable with this ; students regularly fail to consider what it is exactly that A suspects .
4 There is no classical explanation for the slowing down ; however , the rate of energy loss is exactly that expected via gravitational radiation .
5 And Charlie Mallender is exactly that : an old shipmate .
6 Does my hon. Friend agree — unlike the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) — that the Prevention of Terrorism Act is exactly that : a measure to prevent terrorism ?
7 But before I can do that I need to establish something even more basic : what it is exactly that I am inquiring into .
8 If convention is silent there is no law , and the force of that negative claim is exactly that judges should not then pretend that their decisions flow in some other way from what has already been decided .
9 An artist can never have seen too much , read too much , and even if the time is right for a fallow period , then that is exactly when it is also right to go out and see , read , feel , as deeply as possible .
10 This group is exactly as its title , the hostess opens her house to any parents or parents to be , who wish to meet with others .
11 The following extract is exactly as written : ‘ When I tell you that something you use every day could be put to better use — and that using it better could help you to win greater influence , more respect and higher status , promotion and a larger income … it could widen your circle of friends and possibly even secure you fame and power — you might well be curious to know what that ‘ something ’ is …
12 Life is exactly as we have created it .
13 Life , according to metaphysics , is exactly as we want it to be .
14 It is exactly as the explorer 's biographer predicted it would be : 1,800 feet high , half-covered with jungle , a little way off the trans-Isthmian Indian tracks and somewhat detached from the rest of the Sierra — an outlier , distinct and somewhat aloof .
15 If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people
16 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee .
17 Exactly as I appear is exactly as I am , he had said that day in Carlingford .
18 This is the way it is used in the following example , but the pronunciation of the word is exactly as in LE : You know how white people stay .
19 Now this entire wall is exactly as it was in about fourteen fifty when it was built .
20 It is exactly because of that level of variance and because we considered er that multiple cautioning on some occasions , I think on the figures I have examined about six percent of occasions , er were unjustifiable that we have reviewed our policy .
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