Example sentences of "[to-vb] precisely the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exploitation of a range of alternative contractual and working time arrangements permits firms to secure precisely the number and types of such secondary workers that they might require at any time . |
| 2 | Year by year we should be concerned to know precisely the rate of growth or decline . |
| 3 | Second , since any forger who makes additions to a genuine document will destroy the original to avoid detection , it must generally be impossible to know precisely the extent of forged elements in otherwise genuine documents . |
| 4 | Rigid-body refinement ( as implemented in X-plor ) was used to define precisely the position and orientation of each separate immunoglobulin domain . |
| 5 | Our initial response to the publicity was that we would like the conference organisers to define precisely the importance of feminism , as from our point of view it remains an ideological tool of imperialism , which creates division and disunity by it 's reactionary reductionist theories . |
| 6 | By formulating such objectives , ward staff are able to define precisely the general and the specific care required by the patients of their particular specialty . |
| 7 | A corporatist model is neither confirmed nor falsified by evidence of the autonomy of state officials , but such accounts must be able to evaluate precisely the role of elected governing elites , and the importance of their struggle for office . |
| 8 | Because her talents lay in organization , personal inspiration , and a somewhat Wagnerian style of oratory , rather than in writing and analytical thought , it is difficult to pinpoint precisely the nature of her impact upon contemporaries , but she clearly inspired great personal devotion in both women and men . |
| 9 | The further away in time the message was situated , the less likely the speaker is to remember precisely the date and time at which it occurred , and the larger the time-span he is likely to make available for it to have occurred in . |
| 10 | Whichever route you choose , you have the opportunity to select precisely the style , layout , size , materials and finish you want , maybe even to add on an extension , with a room above the garage , and perhaps a workshop behind . |
| 11 | The Technique sets out to do precisely the opposite of this , namely , that parts of the body remain free from other parts no matter what position you may adopt . |
| 12 | The Plant Commission on electoral reform did not stimulate an internal debate in the party , because its real function was to do precisely the opposite . |
| 13 | Ironically , the Duchess of York has chosen to do precisely the opposite . |
| 14 | In our opinion , in all three cases , a promise made by A to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do should be enforced by the law , provided that in other respects such as legality and compatibility with public policy it is free from objection ; thus a promise in return for an agreement by a police authority to give precisely the amount of protection it was by law bound to give and no more should be unenforceable as being against public policy . |
| 15 | It is difficult to calculate precisely the amount this would save , but we believe it would be in the order of £9.1 million in criminal cases , £3 million in family and £2 million in civil cases . |
| 16 | Another project seeks to understand precisely the vagueness of natural language , not only so that we can communicate better with computers , but also because vagueness is a valuable commodity for computation in general . |
| 17 | But it is possible — and equally convincing — to argue precisely the reverse : that the most advanced companies recognise the value of the strategic use of consultants generally — including headhunters — in running a business as efficiently and effectively as possible . |
| 18 | That was not a proper construction of section 78 , which was drawn so as to embrace precisely the situation of this case amongst many others that might arise in individual cases . |
| 19 | It remains difficult to measure precisely the success of a campaign or event when the purpose of the exercise may not include media targets where clippings and recording serve to show the audience reached . |
| 20 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 21 | While it is impossible to measure precisely the influence of these factors , they all probably contributed to the falling output-capital ratio and the consequent decline in the profit rate . |
| 22 | In short , he begins to display precisely the comportment his contemporaries would have expected of their rightful king . |
| 23 | If it is difficult to distinguish precisely the living standards of older women in official statistics , it is impossible to say anything at all about the position of older Black women ( or men for that matter ) . |