Example sentences of "to be [adv] precise " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , above all , something where you have to be utterly precise and there 's no warm up , you just go out there and do it and that 's very challenging . |
| 2 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 3 | There is no need to be too precise about temperature , but blood heat is about right . |
| 4 | In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne had never before understood the necessity to be absolutely precise in everything she did , and Matey 's training , designed to make her a good maid , was beginning to affect her habits in every other part of her life . |
| 6 | I did not carry out their instructions very well so they had to be very precise in explaining things to me . |
| 7 | Producing much more than 800dpi from a dry toner system is a major problem , the particles have to be very precise and tend to clump together , but this level of quality is probably sufficient for anything an office is ever likely to need . |
| 8 | The critical bit is to be very precise about choosing . |
| 9 | You 've got to be very precise , very clear , you 've got to stick rigidly to rules , and these rules are quite unfamiliar to most people , and therefore it 's not easy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Six or seven days , I would say — I 'll not be able to be more precise until the autopsy . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He hands Esau back his birthright , and soon he will make that clear in words , or , to be more precise , in a word . |
| 14 | Or leering at her , to be more precise , but in a good-humoured way . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | This is the story of a horse , or to be more precise , of a horse , two men and an era . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was impossible to be more precise than that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Or , he thought , to be more precise , like the smell of a desirable woman . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But current usage tends to be more precise , perhaps influenced by the philosophical meaning . |
| 27 | " 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |