Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] precisely [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 2 | This was precisely the approach Pearce adopted when he was asked by the Conservative Government to become chairman of British Aerospace in 1980 to prepare it for privatisation . |
| 3 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 4 | This was precisely the position in the case , referred to earlier , of Varley v. Whipp , where at the time of the contract the seller still had to acquire the second-hand reaping machine which he was agreeing to sell . |
| 5 | To suggest that rape is something more than sexual intercourse without consent runs counter to the view of the Heilbron Committee which considered that this was precisely the meaning of rape . |
| 6 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 7 | ‘ This was precisely the point I was going to make , Michaels . |
| 8 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 9 | As this was precisely the aspect of him which Lydia found most annoying the discussion lapsed . |
| 10 | That was precisely the worry that was bothering her so much . |
| 11 | That was precisely the story Jeff had told her . |
| 12 | That was why , perversely , she 'd remained standing where she was , pointedly disdaining his invitation to sit down — though it occurred to her , increasing her sense of irritation , that , quite possibly , that was precisely the reaction he 'd anticipated ! |
| 13 | Of course Cagney was a marvellous showman and that was precisely the point , for audiences had shown a predilection for zest and sharpness and a new kind of urban charm and Hollywood was quite prepared to exploit these qualities in its own way . |