Example sentences of "to be more precise " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be more precise , the conflict was between the felt need of interventionism by the majority of the population and its politicians and the particular social theology of the churchmen . |
| 2 | Six or seven days , I would say — I 'll not be able to be more precise until the autopsy . ’ |
| 3 | But none of the promises can be fulfilled without first a child being born , or , to be more precise in Abraham 's patriarchal world , a son . |
| 4 | He hands Esau back his birthright , and soon he will make that clear in words , or , to be more precise , in a word . |
| 5 | Or leering at her , to be more precise , but in a good-humoured way . |
| 6 | These reforms of Justinian in AD 529 proclaim that they are ‘ imposing a single nature ’ on trusts and legacies ( or , to be more precise , imposing it on legatees and trust beneficiaries ) . |
| 7 | This is the story of a horse , or to be more precise , of a horse , two men and an era . |
| 8 | Can anyone help R. Standring , from Bangor in Gwynedd , who is keen to learn whether or not he is sitting on a gold mine or , to be more precise , swinging with one ? |
| 9 | If asked where you would use a minor scale , the obvious answer would be over a minor chord , but if the chord was Am7£5 or Em7♭5 your choice of scale would have to be more precise . |
| 10 | Quick as a flash — or , to be more precise , quick as a Vorderman — Mr Onanuga announced that it was a £15.49 bottle of Champagne and a £1.98 packet of cigarettes . |
| 11 | It was impossible to be more precise than that . |
| 12 | Out of nowhere an amplifier , a Fender amplifier to be more precise , whistles pasts them and smashes into the concrete concourse in front of the hotel . |
| 13 | Or , he thought , to be more precise , like the smell of a desirable woman . |
| 14 | If you are drawing faces , then , of course , control has to be more precise than in something more loose , like a landscape , where overall effect is sometimes more successful than delineation . |
| 15 | As captain of Surrey for a dozen seasons , Fender was expert at making bricks without straw or , to be more precise , winning matches without bowlers on perfect Oval pitches . |
| 16 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 17 | But current usage tends to be more precise , perhaps influenced by the philosophical meaning . |
| 18 | " Can I top you up , Mr Willoughby ? " asked Lucy in the most polished social manner that anyone could desire , and soon the Magistrate was drinking his third cup of hot water , and still gazing at her in fascination , or to be more precise , at the back of her neck , which was the part of her which most interested him . |
| 19 | For the use made of imprisonment as a penalty , together with the size of the prison population , and a good many other aspects of the penal system are the result of policy decisions ( or , to be more precise , a refusal to develop a coherent policy ) for which the courts share collective responsibility , together with other criminal justice agencies , and , of course , government itself . |
| 20 | Although identification of left or right hemisphere activity represents a fairly gross level of localisation it is sometimes possible to be more precise as to the area of brain that is active . |
| 21 | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers : negative electrons and some positive particles , which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment . |
| 22 | The third sound type is silence or , to be more precise , the gaps that occur within words like six and eight . |
| 23 | August is the launch month for HarperCollins paperbacks — or , to be more precise , August is the month when Fontana and Grafton cease to exist , amalgamating under the one imprint , which I shall refer to as HCP and in my mind will always call Collins . |
| 24 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 25 | But the Royal Fort as a house , or to be more precise a suite of reception rooms added to an older complex , has something of much greater imaginative reach than a mere froth of writhing plaster feather-work and gilding such as London 's lost Chesterfield House once displayed . |
| 26 | To be more precise , the maximum odds against the origin of life on any one planet that our theories are allowed to postulate , is the number of available planets in the universe divided by the odds that life , once started , will evolve sufficient intelligence to speculate about its own origins . |
| 27 | To do this , of course , we have to be more precise about the meaning of the phrase ‘ widely different ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps he is now in a position to be more precise . |
| 29 | To London , to be more precise . ’ |
| 30 | Especially of interest was the fact that one of the two men clearly experiencing difficulty with section ( c ) on the examination paper , Howard Brown ( Morse wondered why his wife had n't been willing to cover for him ) , had filled in section ( e ) with the correct date of arrival , 27 October ; or , to be more precise about the matter , ‘ 2 October ’ . |