Example sentences of "[adj] is exactly [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , this is exactly a job for IAP . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ My own empirical self is becoming more important , ’ he wrote to Barfield , ‘ and this is exactly the opposite of self-love . ’ |
| 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 | On the other hand this is exactly the state of mind in which he loves to revel . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is exactly the kind of relationship work that we need to be doing when we are engaged . |
| 12 | And this is exactly the quality which Wordsworth excels in . |
| 13 | Yet this is exactly the way in which people do speak , especially ‘ in a state of excitement ’ , as any tape-recorder can prove . |
| 14 | ‘ This is exactly the kind of behaviour we want to keep away from rugby . |
| 15 | This is exactly the opposite of what common sense might predict . |
| 16 | But this is exactly the kind of quality of which Paul is speaking . |
| 17 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 18 | This is exactly the system which many teacher-librarians and resource centre directors in Great Britain adopted for reprographic and audiovisual materials when they began consciously organizing resource collections ( rather than " libraries " ) in the late 19605 and early 19705 . |
| 19 | I mean this is exactly the , the type of material that we , we 're going to need to put out in Northumberland . |
| 20 | In fact , this is exactly the conclusion reached by the modern retributivist Jeffrie Murphy ( 1979 : 95 ) , who states that ‘ modern societies largely lack the moral right to punish ’ . |
| 21 | Interestingly , this is exactly the kind of argument developed and elaborated by left academics in their critique of " Labourism " and the " Parliamentary Socialism " of the British Labour Party . |
| 22 | This is exactly the effect achieved , for example , by the treatment of the necks in the Horta figures . |
| 23 | In the end support staff act as information switches and this is exactly the sort of function that can be taken over by electronic data processing . |
| 24 | This is exactly the case of NBFIs increasing velocity that we discussed above . |
| 25 | Because this is exactly the amount of the externality on the last unit when the efficient quantity Q * ; is produced . |
| 26 | I shall certainly look at that , but this is exactly the sort of issue in which I do not want us to get involved . |
| 27 | This is exactly the prediction which is made by Locksley et al. , ‘ the response criterion for schema related items may be more biased in the direction of OLD decisions ( or , alternatively less biased in the direction of NEW decisions ) than the response criterion for schema-unrelated items ’ ( 1984 , p.425 ) . |
| 28 | This is exactly the nature of the ambiguity in : ( 36 ) the façade was plastered When ( 36 ) is taken as a " state " adjective the most appropriate question would perhaps be : ( 37 ) what was the façade like ? |
| 29 | Yet this is exactly the behavioural propensity of the id uncovered by clinical psychoanalysis . |
| 30 | It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . ) |