Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] in detail " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , Bashir Maan , chairman of Strathclyde Community Relations Council , said he was not prepared to comment in detail about the controversy until Mr McNeill had his opportunity to put his case . |
| 2 | Secondly , all participants in such discussions took a very pessimistic view of the likely scale of bombing casualties , and hence considered it pointless to plan in detail . |
| 3 | Although for the reasons stated they have thought it inappropriate to discuss in detail the reasoning of the Court of Appeal , their conclusion on this question of procedure is fortified by the fact that all four judges in the local courts were of the same opinion . |
| 4 | Police were unwilling to comment in detail on the problem yesterday , with inquiries continuing into the Three Star killing and a man being held for questioning . |
| 5 | It is n't feasible to explain in detail here all the various steps that can be taken to control noise , but if the basic principles of sound insulation are understood , a lot of hard work and unnecessary expense can be avoided . |
| 6 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 7 | For the first time , archaeologists have been able to study in detail the techniques used by post-medieval builders to construct the typical ‘ cob ’ houses for which the West Country is famous . |
| 8 | The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists . |
| 9 | While ample reassurances have been given about the financial implications of this massive support for South Africa , IRB delegates from New Zealand , Australia , France , England , Scotland , Wales , Ireland , Japan , Italy , Canada and Argentina were startled to learn in detail of the parlous state of the new union . |
| 10 | we were anticipating being able to explain in detail the entire procedure relating to accounting |
| 11 | Specific findings for the six companies that we were able to examine in detail are included in Appendix A to this report . |
| 12 | So , it might be asked , why is it important to examine in detail what , after all , merits little more than a few paragraphs in conventional histories of education ? |
| 13 | Oswy was probably unable to follow in detail the abstruse arguments put forward , but in the end he decided to accept the Roman practice , on the grounds that at the gates of heaven the keys are held by St Peter , and against him he would not contend . |
| 14 | Patients are often embarrassed or hesitant to describe in detail why they have difficulty evacuating their bowels or what the sensation is like before an incontinent episode . |
| 15 | The evidence of Irish contact with Egypt is too extensive to review in detail . |
| 16 | It is difficult to imagine in detail what such landscapes looked like , how they were used by people and in what sort of activities these people were engaged . |
| 17 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 18 | Conversely , an ad which is difficult to recall in detail , but ( say ) highly emotive and therefore , probably , rather effective , would score rather badly . |
| 19 | It 's difficult to describe in detail without spoiling the effect for future viewers , something that goes for the whole film . |
| 20 | It has been possible to map in detail the migration and fate of the neural crest cells in the chick because of a fortuitous discovery made in 1968 by the French embryologist Nicole Le Douarin . |
| 21 | To see exactly what has happened , it is necessary to look in detail at the composition of the park committees . |
| 22 | Mrs. Drummond took the Minutes and felt obliged to record in detail the instructions given to the ladies on how to cast a vote by means of placing a cross against a preferred choice , those ‘ with the greatest number of crosses being elected ’ . |
| 23 | It will be necessary to determine in detail what are the constituents of this demand pattern . |
| 24 | Prior to describing his method , and that perfected by his brother John , it is necessary to examine in detail the state of the art that led to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century experiments , culminating in the most celebrated of the Hunterian ‘ mummies ’ , Mrs Maria Van Butchell . |
| 25 | It is also likely that the ads for the more expensive and unusual products will be of greater general interest than those for the cheap day-to-day items : it is quite tempting to study in detail an ad for an expensive car , or browse through the ‘ houses for sale ’ columns , even if you aspire only as far as a second-hand Escort and have no intention of moving house within the next 10 years . |
| 26 | We are now ready to examine in detail the assumptions in Marx 's and Engels 's work concerning the evolution of social aspects of human society . |