Example sentences of "is precisely [conj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus nobody seems to notice that the oddest thing about the STV is precisely that it is a single vote — for that is what it is , no matter how many preferences are expressed . |
| 2 | That is a slightly odd point from a Labour Member in view of the fact that the SERPS entitlement of such people , which is what the original question was about , is precisely as it was left by the Labour Government . |
| 3 | It is precisely because they are innate , Lowde said , that they are obvious and self-evident to us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is precisely because it is thought to be binding that it can serve as an expression of identification . |
| 7 | But it is precisely because it is an act of the whole man that it includes the understanding . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd 's years have been left open . |
| 10 | It is precisely because there is no direct correlation of such a kind between genetic make-up and culture that we can afford to ignore race as a significant variable in our discussion of different social and cultural arrangements . |
| 11 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 12 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |