Example sentences of "is precisely [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition , as more and more noticed , can favour the poor in a way state monopolies are never likely to do ; in fact it is precisely through concentrated economic power , not least in the great nationalised industries and services , that the rich can sometimes best thrive . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1970s it was possible to find a Soviet historian proclaim that ‘ It is precisely through controversy that the truth emerges . ’ |
| 3 | It is precisely through the evolution of conceptualising capacities ( and , in particular , of language enabling complex social interactions ) that human beings have come to dominate other species . |
| 4 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 5 | It is precisely at the level of symbolism that , feminists are saying , the Christian story has harmed women . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 7 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |
| 8 | In my capacity as my own analyst I feel that the least I can do for my patient , and my readers , is precisely to ‘ let the case material speak for itself ’ . |
| 9 | Now it could well be argued that the very object of judicial scrutiny is to force the bureaucracy to consider a broader range of policy choices ; that the courts ' role is precisely to ‘ redress ’ the tendency of officials to adopt a very narrow bounded rationality which thereby forecloses policy choices . |
| 10 | ( The hankering for a punk-style commotion is precisely for such an illiberalism , a taking of sides , a new order . ) |
| 11 | It is precisely for this anonymity that they were selected . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is precisely for such reasons that organisations have sought to develop long-term relationships with them . |
| 13 | It is precisely for that reason that trust status will be a more successful means of managing the health service . |
| 14 | Two decades earlier Louis XIV had put it more succinctly : " Nothing happens in the world which does not come under the cognizance of … a good ambassador " , while in the early eighteenth century a leading international lawyer wrote flatly of resident diplomats that " it is precisely for the purpose of getting information that they are maintained in the courts of friendly powers " . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is precisely on the difficulties posed by making inferences from social animals to social man that a great contemporary debate concerning the mechanisms of social evolution has had its focus . |
| 16 | But it is precisely on the global aims , the actual purpose of education , that agreement seems impossible . |
| 17 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |
| 18 | It is precisely on this point that I feel proud and happy and am convinced that my book will survive . " |
| 19 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 20 | I note that it is the Liberal Democrats ' policy to take power away from parents and governors and to give it to centralised bureaucrats , and that is precisely like the Labour party policy as in so many things . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is precisely from this ‘ being aware of having experience ’ and being able both to communicate its features to another and to distinguish between oneself as experiencing agent and another 's reported experiences that the prime features of humanity arise . |
| 22 | It is precisely in confused situations , after all , as travellers on the London Underground know , that people need clear maps , and the complexities of modern civilisation call not for literary difficulty but for literary clarity . |
| 23 | I would further argue that it is precisely in these circumstances where further specialisation and sub-specialisation has occurred that the ‘ intermediate expert ’ is constrained to adopt a paternalistic stance . |
| 24 | It is precisely in line with the common professional assumptions outlined earlier and fits comfortably within the existing style of professional/client relationships . |
| 25 | Sadly , it has been all too often the case that it is precisely in this area that individuals and agencies have found it most difficult to co-operate . |
| 26 | It is precisely in order to make sounder legal and moral judgments , and to evaluate their cost , that we bring economic analysis to a problem like insider trading . ’ |
| 27 | It is precisely in such circumstances that the imposition of obligations upon third parties is most strongly resisted . |
| 28 | As this suggests , the appeal of such a tune could be seen as a ‘ leftover ’ , an ‘ echo ’ of a bygone era of craftsmanship ; and Adorno recognizes the possibility of this — indeed , he acknowledges that it is precisely in popular music that the category of the ‘ idea ’ ( a relatively independent , memorable element within a totality , a phenomenon more or less abandoned by ‘ serious ’ music ) lives on , and with it a sense of creative spontaneity ( Adorno 1976 : 34–7 ) . |
| 29 | But , however tough the private-eye is in the pages , he is precisely in the pages , a literary concept . |
| 30 | It is precisely in virtue of his capacity to grasp this possibility that man is " ontologically fundamental " . |