Example sentences of "at precisely the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air quality which results from this strategy depends upon ensuring that the charges are set at precisely the right level for all pollutants . |
| 2 | Instead , there was a tall , straggly looking tree seemingly at precisely the right spot , but it was definitely not a palm ; no-one could mistake it for one . |
| 3 | The fourth point is the one that requires the greatest skill because it presupposes that you apply the hook at precisely the right time . |
| 4 | Felling at precisely the right time , possibly a tall order for the commission , the UK 's largest timber producer with 900,000 hectares of forest valued at £2.8 billion , could add 15 per cent to timber value , according to the audit office . |
| 5 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 6 | At precisely the right moment , a heavily-built fellow with a black beard arrived and paced about , staring this way and that as if waiting impatiently for another to arrive . |
| 7 | The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment . |
| 8 | He changed gear at precisely the wrong moment and the car bucked and complained . |
| 9 | She turns up at plays and concerts with her baggy man 's trousers belted at precisely the wrong curve of her hip , and her hair loose and slightly oily . |
| 10 | Together , Perry and Crilly committed endearing and devilish acts ; climbing to the ceiling of the asylum chapel to ring the chapel bell at precisely the wrong time , loitering upon the roof of the geriatric ward in pursuit of fat blue-winged pigeons , throwing craps in front of the Sinn Fein bookshop . |
| 11 | Standing in shallow water amongst the tall reeds on the banks of the river , Mark counted eight herons , all motionless , their necks inclined upwards at precisely the same angle , as if in silent prayer . |
| 12 | Comparable oxygen isotope shifts have been measured in sediments from Swiss and Polish lakes at precisely the same times . |
| 13 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 14 | At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required . |
| 15 | ‘ By an astonishing coincidence in the examiners ’ model solution precisely the same piece of goobledegook appears at precisely the same point . ’ |
| 16 | Figures in the CBI report show that manufacturing output in the past decade , at precisely the same point in the economic cycle , is up by a quarter , investment is up by a third , productivity is up by a half and manufactured exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
| 17 | Both boats are aimed at precisely the same market . |
| 18 | One is that , because in general these trends are not only national but also nationwide , the structure and composition of the population in each place in Britain has to some extent tended to change along similar lines , albeit not at precisely the same rates . |
| 19 | But , as the focal length of the projector increases , making the screen image smaller , the focal length of the camera lens is increasing at precisely the same rate ( zoom lenses commonly run from about 25mm to over 200mm in focal length ) . |
| 20 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 21 | When the light comes on at precisely the same time each night and the curtains are n't drawn , it 's clear the house is empty . |
| 22 | At precisely the same time as circumcision and the blood of circumcision was receiving this new casting and additional dimension , legislation about female blood — i.e. the blood of menstruation and childbirth — appeared for the first time on the scene . |
| 23 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 24 | Curiously , at precisely the same time as the Rosenstein archive slipped through the letter box at Collectair a really superb flying model of an Etrich Taube arrived fresh from being fully restored and re-rigged ( F ) . |
| 25 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
| 26 | A further indication of renewed population pressure is that complaints about land enclosure became more conspicuous in the second decade of the sixteenth century , at precisely the same time as real wages began to fall . |