Sentence examples for To be more definite from inspiring English sources

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At one point, a character even wonders aloud: "If this eastern-most coast of England could be painted in oils, and if it was attempted, would it be possible to retain the huge translucence of the sky?" They could be talking about this novel: to be more definite would be to lose the story's delicate, glancing quality.

Museums and their trustees seem to be more definite about what they don't want than about what they do—in particular, it seems, they don't want anything like the Getty Centre in Brentwood, California, a complex which cost more than $1 billion to build and which is now reorganising itself to accommodate the swarms of visitors that it never expected to attract.

It's hard to be more definite than, "This feeling sure is, um, something, and man people like those videos!" because there have been no official scientific studies on ASMR.

However other approaches, such as stylistic studies, or taking samples to matching the spore-element compositions of the paint from the lid and the soundboard [ 9], are needed to be more definite.

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The Fed's board, unfortunately, has sided with the megabanks, resisting attempts by the F.D.I.C. to set an interim final rule on leverage (which would be more definite and harder to lobby than the proposal put on the table) and pushing back against the idea that the leverage ratio for megabanks should be at least 6 percent.

The researchers could not be more definite than that, but the possibility remained that they had seen the production of some supersymmetric particles.Testing timesThe main problem, however, in testing technicolour and supersymmetry is that they generally predict particles with masses too large to be created at the energies probed by today's particle accelerators.

30 Perhaps we should be more definite about prescribing β blockers in this group.

By Harold Ross The New Yorker, February 28 , 1931 P. 12While waiting for an interview, a salesman overheard one of two men who came out of an inner office say to the other, "You ought to of been more definite with these people, Leo.

However, it is common in practice to admit and observe patients with an uncertain diagnosis and to delay their surgery until the diagnosis is more definite in order to reduce the negative appendicectomy rate.

If a reporter has alignments in the reverse direction, but also has at least one high-quality forward alignments to a RefSeq RNA whose status is more definite than "model", then the reverse alignments are ignored and the reporter remains under consideration for being fully valid or RefSeq RNA valid.

Are you going to be here or there?" ­Initially, Glen says, he dithered; now, he is more definite.

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