Example sentences of "exactly the [adj] " 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 | While reluctant to divulge exactly the new creative strategy , Hind confirms the forthcoming campaign will drop the old line , ‘ Pickles that bite back ’ devised by Still Price for the brand when it was owned by Brooke Bond . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was to be used , in other words , in exactly the reverse way to Cézanne . |
| 8 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 9 | That is exactly the legal position . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well I 'm not sure that it was exactly the first , but it was one of the early ones , that 's true . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What exactly the non-ethanolic components of beer and wine that stimulate gastrin release are unclear . |
| 14 | But I had exactly the contrary feeling . |
| 15 | If he thought that was beautiful he was not exactly the tasteful , classy guy he appeared to be , she thought , attempting to be callous . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 18 | It was n't that I was an amazing person or exactly the right guy for the job . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've often watched you in the past and wondered how you know exactly the right time to enter the bidding , the right time to leave , ’ Moran praised . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That is exactly the right word . |
| 22 | The unpredictable English weather meant that delivering the leaves at the right time and at exactly the right stage of development for silkworms to thrive on them was impossible . |
| 23 | Mr Pearson 's Shotover has exactly the right air of a rapt scientific experimenter trying to attain power through means of mind . |
| 24 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 25 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned the collection is in exactly the right building . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 28 | The Trustees made a recommendation to that effect to the Bedfordshire LEA in 1930 which was accepted by the county 's Adult Education Subcommittee as the scheme ‘ had been conducted on sound lines , was distinctly encouraging , that the particular tutor-organiser was exactly the right person required ’ . |
| 29 | Each critic and each interview discovered and reported the uncanny fact of what had happened in the production of the film , that it was one of those once-in-a-generation happenings , bringing together the right story , the right people and the right tone at exactly the right time . |
| 30 | Working with creatures of such speed it was important that he used exactly the right type of camera . |