Example sentences of "precisely the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fact is , it 's precisely the too-thorough internalization of punk 's dread of the hippy and the resulting strategy of self-limitation that has led to a wholly different kind of dire stasis . |
| 2 | It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category . |
| 3 | However , as fortune would have it , when I put my ear to M. Dupont 's door , I happened to hear Mr Lewis 's voice , and though I can not recall precisely the actual words I first heard , it was the tone of his voice that raised my suspicions . |
| 4 | It is precisely the actual point of disagreement that is of interest to us when we can get behind the rhetoric . |
| 5 | In a sense , it is precisely the vain attempts to interpret existence as a " property " and the difficulties created by such interpretations that have inspired the various reductivist moves in an effort to dispose of the whole problem , by showing that existential propositions are in principle " eliminable " , and hence that there are no " irreducibly " existential facts . |
| 6 | Some prime numbers can usually be found that give a good transformation — in fact it is the high probability that any suitable prime chosen will do so , allied to the ease with which this technique can be used to fit any number of records into precisely the required storage space , that makes this such a convenient method . |
| 7 | Its input impedance when terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is On using equation ( 9.1 ) again , this relation reduces to Thus the network of figure 9.11(b) terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) presents impedance at its input terminals , precisely the required termination for constant-k or m-derived T-sections. since the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is very close to over 85% of the pass band when m = 0.6 , the half-section of figure 9.11(b) with m = 0.6 interposed between a fixed resistance and the output of a constant-k or m-derived T-section will provide the T-section with virtually correct termination over most of the pass band . |
| 8 | Mansbridge , who was present , caught precisely the collective sense of gratitude and optimism . |
| 9 | whether there are institutional substitutes for them ( eg. contracts ) and how precisely the co-ordinating power of market economies is affected . |
| 10 | Emlyn Williams was precisely the right man to be the next guru . |
| 11 | The air quality which results from this strategy depends upon ensuring that the charges are set at precisely the right level for all pollutants . |
| 12 | These she had made up to her exact requirements , with precisely the right number of holes , by an exclusive shop in Knightsbridge . |
| 13 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 14 | At precisely the right moment , a heavily-built fellow with a black beard arrived and paced about , staring this way and that as if waiting impatiently for another to arrive . |
| 15 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 16 | No comment is worth making on this bizarre suggestion , except perhaps pointing out to Professor Drife that a beard is n't precisely the right analogy . |
| 17 | Instead , there was a tall , straggly looking tree seemingly at precisely the right spot , but it was definitely not a palm ; no-one could mistake it for one . |
| 18 | Obviously , a special recording offers the opportunity of achieving precisely the right effect , but is considerably more expensive , even in these days of synthesizers , than library material . |
| 19 | The fourth point is the one that requires the greatest skill because it presupposes that you apply the hook at precisely the right time . |
| 20 | But the Minstrel 's manager says today is precisely the right time for them . |
| 21 | Felling at precisely the right time , possibly a tall order for the commission , the UK 's largest timber producer with 900,000 hectares of forest valued at £2.8 billion , could add 15 per cent to timber value , according to the audit office . |
| 22 | Ranging wide over ancient aphorisms , Professor Noel Dilly struck precisely the right note of scepticism , receptivity and curiosity . |
| 23 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 24 | To voters , who hope that a clear result will speed the end of the recession , an unclear result could have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 25 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 26 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 27 | ( presumably this means that in France , where raison is feminine , matters were precisely the other way about ! ) |
| 28 | Why now should they be prepared to recognise as Messiah precisely the imperial authority which , three centuries before , had crucified Jesus — and which continued to practise execution by crucifixion on rebels against the State ? |
| 29 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 30 | What precisely the legal realist movement stood for is a matter of some dispute . |