Example sentences of "exactly the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not exactly the laughing cavalier , is he ? ’ |
| 2 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 3 | Around the same time an ancient tomb was discovered in a garden only 250 yards from the skull rock which fitted exactly the biblical description . |
| 4 | It was to be used , in other words , in exactly the reverse way to Cézanne . |
| 5 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 6 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 7 | That is exactly the legal position . |
| 8 | Not exactly the first person I 'd send on a Feile stage to confront a horde of lunatics crazed by a thunderstorm but Nanci Griffith 's gifts are more private and homely . |
| 9 | When unschooled children group the members of an array according to some such criterion as ‘ red ’ or ‘ round ’ , they reveal exactly the higher processes of ‘ abstraction ’ even if their language use stops short of explicitness . |
| 10 | What exactly the non-ethanolic components of beer and wine that stimulate gastrin release are unclear . |
| 11 | But I had exactly the contrary feeling . |
| 12 | But that surrender and the loss of employment may be exactly the necessary stimuli to break through the denial system and convince the sufferer to seek effective help . |
| 13 | Business men in my constituency believe that the Maastricht agreement set exactly the right tone for business in the 1990s . |
| 14 | Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell . |
| 15 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |
| 16 | Some of the individual performances could do with more definition and detail , but there 's terrific work from David Burt , who has exactly the right mixture of romantic swagger and ruthless cynicism as Macheath , as well as a first-rate singing voice . |
| 17 | A little yacht stove gave out a temperate glow , its draught adjusted to produce exactly the right warmth . |
| 18 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 19 | Many in Washington will disagree ; toughness on trade , they think , is exactly the right way to force Japan and Europe to open their markets ( see page 53 ) . |
| 20 | and that is , that would be exactly the right way to do it ! |
| 21 | That I think you I think most people find it more difficult having to group the notes in the right , in exactly the right way . |
| 22 | The Board of Trade meeting went off very well , with both Mr Murray and Mr Bushnell answering questions with exactly the right tact and diplomacy . |
| 23 | Mr Pearson 's Shotover has exactly the right air of a rapt scientific experimenter trying to attain power through means of mind . |
| 24 | That is exactly the right word . |
| 25 | And " enjoy " is exactly the right word , because as the believer learns more about God his delight becomes more intense . |
| 26 | No , a mere little child , but pressure , yes I mean you 've hit exactly the right word , which makes the game and the big occasions very different . |
| 27 | Working with creatures of such speed it was important that he used exactly the right type of camera . |
| 28 | It took over 800 individual dyeings to complete the programme , changing the proportions until exactly the right colour was achieved . |
| 29 | the sky was a beautiful blue , the sun in just the right position for the rainbows to come out of the cleft in exactly the right position photographically . |
| 30 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |