Sentence examples for specific to be from inspiring English sources

These objects seemed too specific to be co-opted into a narrative of loss, annoyingly melancholic.

You can get angry about it, but there is nobody specific to be angry at.

Yet Finnamore's surrogate-narrator gimmick doesn't quite work -- the material she draws from seems far too subjective and specific to be invented.

If there was a communication problem, it was that there were too many words, and they were far too heavy and too specific to be inflicted on others.

South Korean and Japanese officials conceded that there had been disagreements with Washington over what kind of statement to issue and how specific to be about incentives for North Korea to give up its nuclear program.

Mr. Vorpahl moved to have the charge dismissed, but Justice Roger W. Walker of East Hampton Town Court denied his motion last year, finding the Dongan Patent insufficiently specific to be enforceable.

"The verbal abuse was specific to being a black woman.

It is probable that IP-10 is mainly a marker of inflammation and therefore too non-specific to be a stand-alone biomarker for TB infection.

Shi470 contains the two most prominent DNA segments found to be strain-specific, to be missing from significant numbers of strains in at least some populations: (i) the disease-associated cag pathogenicity island [53], [54]; and (ii) a TnPZ (plasticity zone) transposon, some of whose genes also have been implicated in virulence [44], [45].

As CTCF sites are sufficiently sequence-specific to be directly tunable by local nucleotide substitutions, it is intriguing to speculate that the intra-domain looping structure is a key and evolvable feature affecting gene regulation.

A further three items – a "school woolly hat, scarf and gloves" – are listed as "optional but no other hat and gloves [ie not school-specific] to be worn".