The phrase "select strictly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when emphasizing the need for careful or precise selection in a given context.
Example: "In this experiment, we must select strictly the samples that meet the specified criteria."
Alternatives: "choose carefully" or "pick precisely."
In his excellent 2003 profile of Yao Ming for the New Yorker, Pete Hessler, talks about how Chinese basketball players are selected strictly on the basis of their height and genealogy.
It is highly unlikely that reputable journals will accept submissions for publication if the cohorts have not been selected strictly according the ICHD.
For example, the less conventional Tango patterns showed success rates of around 13%—significantly lower than for Quickstep and Foxtrot but higher than might have been expected if grantees were selected strictly according to old-fashioned norms.
As indicated by previous studies [ 8– 10], the data used in this study were selected strictly according to the following criteria.
The following steps were taken to reduce errors while conducting the study:- i. Patients were selected strictly based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria.
We also obtained the 12 common pathways (again out of 40 each) from the two breast cancer metastasis cohorts, this time selected strictly from KEGG pathways.
This work brings together electrophysiological data of Purkinje cells selected strictly based on the presence of consistent US-complex spike responses with precise behavioral recordings in an eyeblink conditioning paradigm employing awake behaving mice.
In our situation although candidates were selected strictly on the basis of their combined MMI plus SJT scores we had the same population sample for MMI and SJT scores.
It doesn't select anything, strictly speaking, but merely assembles the stories from William Trevor's last four collections, so that in effect it's a sequel to the huge edition of his collected stories that came out in 1992.
