Example sentences of "this [is] exactly " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ My own empirical self is becoming more important , ’ he wrote to Barfield , ‘ and this is exactly the opposite of self-love . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is exactly the difference : a poor conductor often does not know what to do after the third rehearsal , he has nothing more to say , he is more easily satisfied , because he does not have the capacity for further discrimination , and because nothing in him imposes higher requirements . |
| 7 | This is exactly what we would expect from the neutral theory . |
| 8 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 9 | Indeed , since the female has the prime investment in young , this is exactly what would be expected from Trivers 's elaboration of Darwin 's account of sexual selection ( p. 52 ) . |
| 10 | This is exactly what Benjamin Bevan constructed between 1810 and 1813 , except that some reshaping of the middle and lower side ponds took place in 1898 to make room for the inclined plane embankment , and that some reconditioning of the locks took place between 1908 and 1910 in preparation for re-opening . |
| 11 | This is exactly what happened . |
| 12 | This is exactly what happens once God has met us , spoken to us , challenged our ways and thoughts , and revealed himself to us . |
| 13 | On the other hand this is exactly the state of mind in which he loves to revel . |
| 14 | This is exactly the way the band saw it and , when pushed , certain employees of Rough Trade agreed that there had been some kind of promotional foul-up . |
| 15 | This is exactly what we found . |
| 16 | In 1960 , this is exactly what happened when the car was restored and run in the 75th Anniversary parade . |
| 17 | Yet this is exactly what has recently been proposed by Professor David de Rosier and his co-workers at Brandeis University , in Massachusetts , ( Journal of Molecular Biology . |
| 18 | This is exactly what language training for children or adults ( rather than mere translation ) succeeds in doing . |
| 19 | This is exactly the prediction made for geometrically identical animals of different size by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in his classic ‘ On Growth and Form ’ published in 1917 . |
| 20 | This is exactly what would be expected if alcohol acts as a spindle disrupting agent . |
| 21 | This is exactly what we find here . |
| 22 | It is the pouring in of new wine , but the bottles must also be new or they will burst , and this is exactly what Mr. Alexander 's treatment does . |
| 23 | This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form : that a struggle against severe difficulties in life in unavoidable , is an intrinsic part of human existence — but that if one does not shy away , but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships , one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious . |
| 24 | This is exactly what this staircase is , and to get from one room to another you had to go down one staircase and up another . |
| 25 | This is exactly the kind of relationship work that we need to be doing when we are engaged . |
| 26 | This is exactly what the ‘ Advance Directives Bill ’ would do . |
| 27 | What these descriptions present us with is the concept of an impersonal Absolute or Ultimate and this is exactly what Gandhi wishes to convey for he has no hesitation in expressing a preference for the idea of God as formless Truth . |
| 28 | And this is exactly the quality which Wordsworth excels in . |
| 29 | Yet this is exactly the way in which people do speak , especially ‘ in a state of excitement ’ , as any tape-recorder can prove . |
| 30 | REFUSING drugs to a person who needs them is a disgrace to the medical profession — but this is exactly what some heart-care units in opt-out hospitals are doing . |