Example sentences of "[verb] precisely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needing to find precisely when their electrical axis first originated in the development of the animal , he began mapping the fields in progressively earlier stages of salamander embryogenesis and discovered that the electrical axis originated in the unfertilized egg , thus contradicting conventional biological and genetic theory . |
| 2 | The recent development of ‘ paid volunteer ’ schemes , where small payments are made to untrained local people to provide regular help and support to disabled and elderly people in order to sustain their continued residence in ‘ the community ’ , illustrates precisely this growing interface between private unpaid and public waged caring work ( Leat and Gay , 1987 ; Qureshi , 1990 ; Baldock and Ungerson , 1991 ) . |
| 3 | We have taken a considerable number of far-reaching measures in association with the Confederation of British Industry to encourage precisely that course . |
| 4 | The purpose was to discover precisely how important qualifications were in determining their occupational chances . |
| 5 | It is unclear whether any more such circulars will be forthcoming post-April , since the DoH has still not clarified precisely what monitoring it will be carrying out . |
| 6 | The data corresponds precisely to the situation described by Ashton et al 's recruitment strategies with non-educational criteria taking priority over educational ones . |
| 7 | Neither type corresponds precisely to that seen in vertebrate enamel , and the extreme variation in crystal orientation is puzzling . |
| 8 | What matters is that a particular location in my DNA corresponds precisely to one particular location in your DNA : they have the same address . |
| 9 | Mansbridge , who was present , caught precisely the collective sense of gratitude and optimism . |
| 10 | I caught precisely nothing , not even a pea . |
| 11 | They should n't be , because the Minors have won precisely eight out of 244 matches in which they have participated since 1964 — and that includes two victories by Durham , and the celebrated bowling shoot-out at Bishop 's Stortford last year . |
| 12 | Before explaining the cause of this reaction , it helps to observe precisely what happens . |
| 13 | In many ways , the originality of Paul Nizan is to be located precisely in this divided status . |
| 14 | Ironically , it may very well be that the potency of socialist realism is to be located precisely in this global strategy of revelation and disclosure rather than in any attempt to arrive at narrow prescriptive theories . |
| 15 | But few doubt , even in Nashville , that country has boomed precisely because of its predictable format and the readiness of its lyrics to engage with the mundane ups-and-downs of life . |
| 16 | During the night the police sealed off the hospital so that no one might know precisely who was wounded or the number of casualties . |
| 17 | But until we study the life cycles of animals in fine detail , we can not know precisely which creatures depend upon what ; and many a creature has been wiped out not because its entire habitat has disappeared , but simply because some favoured site has been obliterated . |
| 18 | If , however , I read in a review , ‘ These frets are slightly higher than Gibson 's wide ovals , ’ I 'd know precisely what you were talking about . |
| 19 | No one can know precisely how many consultations are involved in treating a specific individual . |
| 20 | I would like to take you , stage by stage , through a typical case so that you may know precisely what to expect in both present-life and past-life regression . |
| 21 | Sch 19AB , TA 1988 , inserted by s 49 of the 1991 Finance Act , allows insurance companies to provisionally reclaim income tax and tax credits deducted from pension business income , in recognition of the fact that an insurance company will not know precisely its level of pension business until after its accounting period has ended . |
| 22 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 23 | Nor do we know precisely what he did . |
| 24 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 25 | He did n't know who he was anymore , and neither did the Earthlings , hence his name , Doctor Who ; he did n't know precisely where his home was ; he did not fully know how to operate the time-space machine . |
| 26 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 27 | The health authority is entitled to object and does object to being subject to an order of the court with penal consequences in the event of disobedience when it does not know precisely what is required of it . |
| 28 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
| 29 | We do not know precisely which dissident Yugoslav troops he had in mind . |
| 30 | Muriel did not know precisely what she was trying to convey — more than consolation ; nothing she could have explained . |