Example sentences of "is essentially the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pity , compassion or mercy , is quintessentially Jewish hasidic ; to such God is essentially the God of Mercy and Compassion . |
| 2 | The myth that a man makes has transformations according as he sees himself as hero or villain , as young or old , but it is essentially the same myth ; Tom Jones is not the same person , but he is the same myth as Squire Western ; Midshipman Easy is part of the same myth ; Falstaff is elevated above the myth to dwell on Olympus , more than a national character . |
| 3 | This is essentially the keiretsu system now used by Japanese industrial groups . |
| 4 | However , memory can be divided into short and long term categories , and scientists think that bacterial short term memory is essentially the same as the short term memory in man . |
| 5 | Obviously there would have been some overlap , but this is essentially the time scale of the construction . |
| 6 | The dispute between parents and LEA in Dewsbury in 1987–88 exemplified this struggle between parent and state agencies over what is essentially the exercise of the paternalistic role concerning the formal education of a child . |
| 7 | Small equipment : With straightforward equipment and parts the method is essentially the same as for worktops with the addition of pre and post cleaning actions , safety checks , dismantling and re-assembly . |
| 8 | The view that the Lord 's Day is essentially the Jewish Sabbath — a ‘ taboo ’ day — transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week found expression from time to time in medieval law and theology . |
| 9 | This book is essentially the proceedings of a conference held at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute , in California , in 1989 . |
| 10 | In consequence , the terms are frequently used to describe what is essentially the spread of desert-like conditions and decreasing biological productivity . |
| 11 | At this point , we may simply note that the method involved is essentially the same . |
| 12 | This is essentially the conclusion drawn by Salmon ( 1987 ) in his survey of decentralization in France in the early 1980s . |
| 13 | Its connection with breast cancer is essentially the same as that of oestrogens and prolactin . |
| 14 | The principle is essentially the same as the support for a cupboard on a wall — its main support comes from a horizontal batten and simple screws keep it vertical . |
| 15 | In the absence of expanding leaves , shoot growth is essentially the elongation of a cylinder , a geometry ideal for spanning distances while at the same time keeping surface area to a minimum and hence the loss of water by evaporation . |
| 16 | The argument for solar constancy is essentially the one I have already outlined . |
| 17 | If you think about it , air is essentially the ‘ breath of life ’ . |
| 18 | Although it is written in 12/8 , this is essentially the same as triplets in 4/4 . |
| 19 | It is two-channel in normal operation , with balanced quarter-inch jack inputs ( the dearer Pro Gate has balanced XLRs , but is essentially the same machine ) , and each channel has a sidechain facility . |
| 20 | Channel 2 is essentially the same , but there 's no ‘ mid ’ control , no EQ preset button and the tone controls have been honed down to just bass and treble . |
| 21 | But the story is essentially the same : England 's long aristocratic hangover ( the idea of an English ancien régime , outlandish to Whiggish historians , has been taken up on the right by Jonathan Clark and others in interpretations that contest but also defer to Anderson 's own ) ; its early industrialisation ; a weak-kneed bourgeoisie ; an inward working-class addicted to ‘ Labourism ’ ; the distraction of empire ; the more recent hollow heroics of ‘ Ukania ’ ; and the failure to develop a progressive intellectual culture grounded in a radical sociology . |
| 22 | In the northern States it is essentially the image of the Serpent that is worshipped . |
| 23 | Others have persisted in a more traditional view that language learning is essentially the same as the learning of grammar . |
| 24 | This early period is essentially the period of Ramsay 's achievements in ‘ masculine ’ portraiture , in the sense of both the style and the subject matter . |
| 25 | Old age generally involves the loss of two crucial social roles , highly regarded by dominant social values , and it is essentially the loss of these valued roles which associates increasing age with diminished social status and prestige , and with disengagement . |
| 26 | The behaviour of worm-lions , which also flick sand at their prey , is essentially the same as that of the ant-lion . |
| 27 | Set in contemporary London and obviously written before the Somalian famine hit the news , the book is essentially the story of Rachel , an expatriate South African liberal with three children ; Hassan , a Somalian Brit working as a refugee adviser ; and Anab and Haleemo , two refugees from the Somalian civil war . |
| 28 | We may say that thinking is essentially the activity of operating with signs . |
| 29 | This is essentially the story of two North British Railway branch lines who carried the people of East Fife , together with generations of golfers , to the coast . |
| 30 | Likewise in physics pupils were offered ‘ a starvation course on the precise measurement of physical quantities … [ for , as an influential text of the time began ] ‘ Physics is essentially the science of measurements ’ ’ . |