Example sentences of "[noun] to be precise " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elder Grove , Haxby to be precise . |
| 2 | Elder Grove , Haxby to be precise . |
| 3 | The answer to that lies on the south coast of England , in Poole , Dorset to be precise . |
| 4 | The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment . |
| 5 | There was another Briton , a Welshman to be precise , involved in Laguna . |
| 6 | Unlikely though it may seem , as I wandered miserably in the snow in a duffle coat , puffing my pipe , around the cobblestones and concrete of Wilhelmshaven , I was still , in naval terms , serving aboard a ship , HMS Royal Rupert to be precise . |
| 7 | A rather more promising approach might be to treat the existential quantifier itself as a kind of predicate — a second-level predicate to be precise — which , in our example above , says something about the " first-level " predicate " is human " , namely that the latter can be completed to produce a true proposition . |
| 8 | He supplied me with money — fourpence a week to be precise . |
| 9 | Or , more precisely , and he likes people to be precise , and would be quite anxious not to be misunderstood , he is not overly fond of fat women . |
| 10 | In early Rome this took place at the old New Year which was in March — the Ides of March to be precise . |
| 11 | For a start , it 's Good Housekeeping 's 70th Birthday this year , in March to be precise , but we do n't intend to let such an important anniversary slip by in just one month , so we 'll be celebrating throughout 1992 with lots of extras and special treats for you . |
| 12 | Our descent ended in delightful Farndale , at the Feversham Arms to be precise . |
| 13 | Naturally , there is the proverbial robin — well , robins to be precise . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , down in the deep south — at TVS studios in Southampton to be precise — there was a 4th July menu that ranged from real Texas burgers to an adventurous Lousiana duck . |
| 15 | Dysart 's commanding officer on his very first ship to be precise . |
| 16 | In the téléphérique restaurant to be precise , buying matches and a huge meal . |
| 17 | Specificity of a system is the extent to which it permits the indexer to be precise about the subject of a document . |
| 18 | Whatever the uncertainty about whether God exists , the theist has a duty to be precise about what he or she means by ‘ God ’ . |
| 19 | The need here is to encourage children to be precise about what they want to find out in their work . |
| 20 | About me and Dad to be precise . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The point ’ they say , ‘ is not that we should recognise semantic change , but that in order to be precise , in order to be understood , we must ’ . |
| 22 | Earlier this year , April to be precise , these jottings were accompanied by a photograph of a huge model of the ill-fated airship R.101 being hoisted aloft amid the spacious surroundings of a large and palatial room . |
| 23 | Another day , another dollar … well , another $70,000 to be precise . |
| 24 | In the Putney Vale Crematorium to be precise . |
| 25 | First of all , the Bass VI is a tuned-down guitar , one octave to be precise — EADGBE as opposed to a 6-string bass 's customary BEADGC . |
| 26 | It is also necessary because it is difficult for the designer to be precise ahead of time . |
| 27 | Like so many of us , he learnt from his parents , his mother to be precise , who was a keen gardener . |