Example sentences of "is essentially a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bring anxiety about venues and dates into what is essentially a calm and anxiety-free activity . |
| 2 | The modern pub is essentially a Victorian creation . |
| 3 | it is essentially a nomadic principle , remaining deeply resented and problematic to most dominant , sedentary political systems and their law enforcers . |
| 4 | A philosophical theory is essentially a reflection on a practice , and the first-person perspective expresses engagement in the practice : to apply the theory first-personally is to confuse levels . |
| 5 | Arguing for what he believes to be the right way of reading Derrida , Norris makes what is essentially a forensic case . |
| 6 | This is essentially a crafts-and design-based exhibition that does not attempt to give a European or transatlantic overview . |
| 7 | ‘ Ritual , ’ Eliot wrote in 1923 , ‘ consisting of a set of repeated movements , is essentially a dance . ’ |
| 8 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 9 | aid is essentially a substitute for saving and … a large fraction of foreign capital is used to increase consumption rather than investment . |
| 10 | The moral opposition to boxing in the late twentieth century , which is essentially a continuation of an old Nonconformist hostility bolstered by science , is weakened by the popularity of men like Henry Cooper : 'Enry , the Londoner , the decent , gentle bruiser , who almost knocked out one of the greatest heavyweights of all time , but now prospers as a TV celebrity playing golf for charity or advertising deodorants . |
| 11 | The M2 , or Alligator as it is known in West German service , is a vehicle the size of an average forty-five-seater passenger coach , and is essentially a self-propelled bridging pontoon . |
| 12 | They argue from time to time , they get tired and cross and let stress get the better of them , like any other couple , but the union is essentially a happy one . |
| 13 | For all its popularity , TCS is essentially a shoe-string operation with an annual government input of £12million and an equal contribution from industry . |
| 14 | For all its popularity , TCS is essentially a shoe-string operation with an annual government input of £12million and an equal contribution from industry . |
| 15 | It will be available after 1997 and is essentially a travel document whose validity has been questioned by a number of countries . |
| 16 | It is essentially a non-authoritarian mode of travel . |
| 17 | It is essentially a Pauline concept . |
| 18 | A thesaurus ( see Chapter 9 ) is essentially a database in its own right , with each word constituting a record , cross-referenced to other records or terms through a series of relationships which can be broad , narrow or related ( e.g. ‘ metal ’ is a narrower term of ‘ inorganic ’ , but it is a broad term of ‘ iron ’ . |
| 19 | It is essentially a private event without witnesses and often survivors feel implicated in some way . |
| 20 | His approach is essentially a gene-centred as opposed to an organism-centred one ( see p. 30 ) . |
| 21 | But both are slight — 171 pages for Mary , 205 for Jella — and Dea Birkett is essentially a journalist rather than a literary stylist . |
| 22 | Multimedia is essentially a by-product of CD-ROM ( Compact Disk Read Only Memory ) , invented in 1985 by Philips and Sony . |
| 23 | Ballet is essentially a middle-class interest , the domain of white little girls whose parents can afford the fees . |
| 24 | A man o ‘ pairts is essentially a practical dreamer , his feet on the earth and his head in the clouds . |
| 25 | A coral is essentially a sea anemone which supports its body by a skeleton of calcium carbonate . |
| 26 | It is significant that Charlotte Lennox 's The Female Quixote , one of the most interesting novels of its time , is essentially a satire on women 's education . |
| 27 | The poem is essentially a comparison between the poet 's condition and that of Lucinda , the ‘ Fav'rite of indulgent Heav'n … |
| 28 | His first volume of poems published in 1764 is essentially a tribute to the gardening skills of his patron , William Shenstone . |
| 29 | Citizenship is essentially a relationship between the individual and the community . |
| 30 | This view involves an updating of what is essentially a Brechtian formulation : self-consciousness in formal terms will induce a socio-political prise de conscience on the part of the audience/readership , making it hostile to repressive ideological discourses . |