Example sentences of "[conj] more precisely " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how long she kept using it ( or more precisely , how long it kept using her ) , but surely up to the day when she noticed her sister , younger by eight years , tossing up her arm while saying good-bye to a girlfriend . |
| 2 | ‘ all founders of clubs ’ , or more precisely , schools of philosophy . |
| 3 | Meanwhile — and here is a term that is proving to be particularly confusing — we have had a veritable flurry of activity in the area , or more precisely areas , designated as ‘ information management ’ . |
| 4 | GEOMETRY is the branch of mathematics , or more precisely the root , that derives from spatial intuition and insists upon visual expression of its theory . |
| 5 | Again , that 's a neat example of what flying the TBM 700 is all about : speed control , or more precisely , controlling the airspeed at which events happen . |
| 6 | The political initiative had also passed to the Colonial Office by the end of the war , though here again the process had begun shortly before the war , with the commissioning by the Royal Institute of International Affairs , or more precisely , its founder and moving spirit , Lionel Curtis , of a comprehensive survey of Africa . |
| 7 | The dialectic of the modern capitalist , or more precisely the modern mixed , economy , all but exclusively involves the role of government . |
| 8 | The most serious enemy of the mountain goat is snow , or more precisely avalanches . |
| 9 | First , age , or more precisely proximity to the state-pension age , had an important bearing on early retirement . |
| 10 | Early leavers now have the right to move their pension — or more precisely , its transfer value — to a new employer 's scheme willing to accept it . |
| 11 | Glue ear , or more precisely otitis media with effusion , is the major cause of hearing problems in children . |
| 12 | Another major cause of the Darmstadt , Germany-based company 's success , Graham believes , is that it is now privately-owned again — or more precisely , its shares are held in a trust , set up by the founders . |
| 13 | Or more precisely : the dates appropriate to each class are irrational to all those of other classes . |
| 14 | These 13 quartets were composed between 1770 and 1773 , or more precisely in 1770 in the case of the G major Quartet which is the earliest , and between 1772–3 for the others . |
| 15 | In present everyday usage the phrase could be understood to mean quite simply that capital , or more precisely , the people disposing of it , treats labour , or more precisely , the people employed , so badly as to create resentment . |
| 16 | In present everyday usage the phrase could be understood to mean quite simply that capital , or more precisely , the people disposing of it , treats labour , or more precisely , the people employed , so badly as to create resentment . |
| 17 | It is a question of personality , or more precisely how this is projected in the voice down the telephone wires . |
| 18 | An atomised serialised mass of proletarians demand to be given by society , or more precisely the state , what they are unable to take or produce ’ ( 1982 : 240 ) . |
| 19 | The control structure of any organization consists , by and large , of a definition of the relationships between controllability and responsibility , or more precisely a specification of which managers are responsible for which resources in the organization . |
| 20 | Cost , or more precisely the economies of scale in service and housing provision , is another major argument proposed in favour of a selected settlement policy . |
| 21 | The only workable categorization of Elvis 's music , as we have seen , is not by historical period but by song-type — or more precisely , by apparently self-contradictory assemblages of musical elements as they are mediated by the differential demands of varied songs at various moments . |
| 22 | The first is his use of the ‘ immanent method ’ ; the second is his own historical location , or more precisely what we can call his ontologization of history . |
| 23 | On the basis of this analogy we may call a ring current a magnetic dipole , or more precisely we should say that sufficiently far away from a ring current the magnetic field appears as if it was created by two closely spaced magnetic charges ( which of course do not exist ) . |
| 24 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 25 | Thus given that the world is made up of a , l , c … n objects , " Men exist " , or more precisely " For some x , x is a man " , is coextensive with " Either a is a man or l is a man or c is a man or … n is a man " . |
| 26 | Rather than quoting Churchill ( or more precisely , it appeared , the British Trotskyist Isaac Deutscher ) Pravda reminded its readers of Lenin 's assessment of Stalin , and of the verdict of the party congresses of 1956 and 1961 . |
| 27 | Jolly Roger ( JR ) is the newly-appointed financial director of a medium sized engineering company which is having trouble with its credit control , or more precisely its lack of it , and JR is attempting to introduce new controls . |
| 28 | Nor does he condone the lawlessness ( or more precisely , " the frantic and lawless conduct " ) of the other rebels ( 36.11 ) . |
| 29 | Like the characters and indeed the reader he or she is simply a collection of codes : ‘ The ‘ I ’ which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts , of codes which are infinite , or more precisely , lost ( whose origin is lost ) ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 30 | Both types of element ( or strictly speaking tokens or occurrences of both types ) contract a " vertical " relation of instantiation with linguistic expressions , or more precisely with the meanings of linguistic expressions . |