Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be precise " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another Briton , a Welshman to be precise , involved in Laguna . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He supplied me with money — fourpence a week to be precise . |
| 4 | Dysart 's commanding officer on his very first ship to be precise . |
| 5 | In the téléphérique restaurant to be precise , buying matches and a huge meal . |
| 6 | Specificity of a system is the extent to which it permits the indexer to be precise about the subject of a document . |
| 7 | Whatever the uncertainty about whether God exists , the theist has a duty to be precise about what he or she means by ‘ God ’ . |
| 8 | About me and Dad to be precise . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is also necessary because it is difficult for the designer to be precise ahead of time . |
| 12 | Like so many of us , he learnt from his parents , his mother to be precise , who was a keen gardener . |