Example sentences of "to be [adv] precise [conj] " 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 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 .
3 It was impossible to be more precise than that .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Unfortunately the bank were unable to be more precise as to which names would appear on a P45 .
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