Example sentences of "to be precise " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 2 | The influence of an international market is not easy to be precise about , though the appearance of work in a Biennale or an art fair can be impressive in itself . |
| 3 | This afternoon in the market she negotiated the amendment of ‘ Brokkoli ’ on a hand-written sign by agreeing to buy two pounds of the vegetable — or to be precise , flower used as a vegetable . |
| 4 | Another day , another dollar … well , another $70,000 to be precise . |
| 5 | He also laid down certain rules fur balance , on the need to bend the knees always as a preparation for any kind of step followed by a stretch , on the vital use of the head and on the need fur the co-ordination of all parts if the desired movements were to be precise and elegant . |
| 6 | Des is a Desert Rat — or Desert Dog , to be precise . |
| 7 | Since 1961 ( to be precise , since Selwyn Lloyd 's ‘ pay pause ’ that summer ) British people had given sustaining the economy the priority over foreign affairs among their concerns . |
| 8 | To be precise to see a man about a good number of sledge dogs . |
| 9 | There was another Briton , a Welshman to be precise , involved in Laguna . |
| 10 | China 's own demands are said to be precise . |
| 11 | Richards 's share was rather larger , 93 to be precise , the fourteen overs yielding 106 runs as Richards hammered 21 fours and five sixes — one of them out of the ground — in all , for 189 not out off 170 balls . |
| 12 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 13 | Eight years later , to be precise , she was greeted by screaming crowds and the flash of a hundred photographers ' cameras . |
| 14 | ‘ I was very surprised to win this player of the year award , speechless to be precise . |
| 15 | Parents ' groups come and go whether or not there are CMHTs and it is difficult to be precise about the CMHT contribution in this field . |
| 16 | To be precise , you need several screwdrivers , because screws come in several sizes and have heads of different types . |
| 17 | He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions . |
| 18 | He had to translate early botanical , English , Scots and Gaelic names into their modern botanical equivalents , although it was not always possible to be precise . |
| 19 | Whatever the uncertainty about whether God exists , the theist has a duty to be precise about what he or she means by ‘ God ’ . |
| 20 | I understood her logic : to anyone , or to be precise to any tourist , who cast an eye towards the subcontinent , Machu Picchu was not only a symbol for Peru but for the whole of Latin America . |
| 21 | It is difficult to be precise about the outcome , but again the general impression seems to be that there has been no significant and continuing deterioration , and some well-placed observers thought that behaviour had , on the whole , improved . |
| 22 | In the Putney Vale Crematorium to be precise . |
| 23 | It concerns certain members of this class , four to be precise , but it will , if it is to stand any chance of success , require the support of every one of you , of every one in the school , in fact . |
| 24 | Path d is given by the proportion of the old who are rich ( 0.374 to be precise , from figure 13.3 ) . |
| 25 | It is difficult to be precise until the system has been implemented , but some results seem likely . |
| 26 | To be precise , they are made by the board through the power delegated by the governing body to the headteacher . |
| 27 | To be precise , in the original class of solutions given by Yurtsever ( 1988 a ) , V is taken in the form ( 10.77 ) which can be seen to be generalizations of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibañez solution described in Section 10.5 . |
| 28 | To be precise , a former tied cottage , which was cheap enough to be within their means for two reasons — it is remote , and it has a power pylon growing in its back garden . |
| 29 | He supplied me with money — fourpence a week to be precise . |
| 30 | 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 . |