Example sentences of "be essentially a [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator .
2 First is A P T which is essentially a heads down data entry facility .
3 Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium .
4 What had been essentially a workers ' party , fifty percent of the membership workers based predominantly in the big cities and towns becomes a party of intellectuals and peasants .
5 They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s .
6 In the early days , Sainsbury 's was essentially a provisions merchant , trading primarily in fresh foods such as dairy products , poultry and game , fresh meats , bacon and hams .
7 It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort .
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