Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] defined " in BNC.

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1 Here would be two worthy contenders — one Thatcherite , one Rocardian — for the newly defined middle ground .
2 A clear dichotomy is emerging , too , between the tightly defined research-oriented role of the BMP planner , and the ‘ advertising consultant ’ role typified by JWT .
3 It was , as they saw it , Mrs Thatcher 's abuse of the loosely defined conventions that made such politically conscious people demand constitutional reform , one cardinal feature of which should be a properly articulated status of citizenship .
4 First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ .
5 The British middle class , on the other hand , includes large sections of the economically defined working class ( especially salaried employees ) as well as sections of the petty bourgeoisie proper and sections of the ‘ individual bourgeoisie ’ ( i.e. personal owners of means of production and employers of the labour power of others ) .
6 To look at the matter differently , one could say that the members of the economically defined working class in Britain are divided between the ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ collectivities , with this division depending on a range of factors including place within the division of labour by strata , parentage , education , home-ownership , and income .
7 The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate .
8 This is the image of the sharply defined , sculpted statue as a reflection of the physical signs of AIDS .
9 In the first it is the negation of desire , in the second , of the culturally defined other of cultural difference .
10 Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village .
11 This encouraged the growth of a clearly defined body of hereditary peers , for it eliminated the risks that an earldom would pass into other hands by marriage , that the lands would become separate from the title , or that they would be divided up amongst coheiresses .
12 A planned policy in relation to retirements from the firm is also more likely to strengthen the loyalties of junior partners by giving them sight of a clearly defined career progression within the firm .
13 This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention .
14 All this represents a move from a reactive approach for the nurse involving tradition , routine , and medical direction to one where her actions are founded on her understanding and judgement and are directed towards the achievement of a previously defined goal .
15 Now we can readily see that the evident lack of a culturally defined latency period — by which we really mean one resulting from an enforcement of the incest taboo during childhood — is entirely explicable and , indeed , inevitable in these circumstances .
16 In the police this desire for a clearly defined world of order derives from an implicit understanding that control of social behaviour is always surrounded by the dirt of structural ambivalence .
17 Their techniques are not unlike ‘ thick description ’ in some respects : setting out accounts for a closely defined topic in an exhaustive manner and assembling a wealth of documentary and statistical evidence to assess an event .
18 The need for a well defined area ( one established through various forms of marker such as the song used by birds ) is seen by Ardrey as having its basis in guaranteeing access to food and space for breeding for future generations .
19 Just as significantly , it betrays Henry the Liberal 's view of feudalism as a clearly defined contract in which the holder of a specified fief of land performed a set amount of military service for the privilege ; and , in cases where he had fiefs of several lords , had the obligation to recognize one homage as overriding .
20 Lill on ASV on the other hand interprets this as a clearly defined slower central section which , to my ears at least , makes a great deal more musical sense — this is backed up by a comparison of the overall timings ; Gavrilov knocks a whole minute off Lill 's 7′53″ , which is quite a lot considering the brevity of this sonata .
21 She also identifies the need for what is usefully described as ‘ transition management ’ , to establish the change through a clearly defined communications strategy , based on a model of the change process .
22 Of course , the state is not insulated from economic pressures or political demands from the working class and other groups , but this analysis suggests that it will respond to them in ways which are to its own advantage , which may not coincide with the narrowly defined interests of capital or other political forces .
23 The assessment of the CytR-DNA backbone contacts , together with the genetically defined binding sequence , therefore , suggests that CytR lies across two adjacent minor grooves and recognizes its binding site by contacting bases in two neighbouring major grooves .
24 This method works supremely well in Paris Trout , where it is contrasted with the sharply defined small town in a southern state that is the setting .
25 In the case of malicious damage , where compensation could be got under the carefully defined Saxon laws , it was the local thegn who usually benefited ; we shall never know how much of this was passed on .
26 As we saw in Chapter 2 on social security , however , these do not keep the very low-paid workers above the officially defined poverty line .
27 A concordat between Anderson and the horror genre was ruled out not only by Andemson 's fastidiousness , but by the inability of Hammer Studios to provide an environment in which filmmakers with a strongly defined sense of individuality could flourish .
28 They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans .
29 Pöhl has argued that his proposed central banking system ‘ would have an adequately democratic legal base if it came about by agreement between democratic governments , ratified by democratically elected parliaments , and if the system were provided with a clearly defined mandate ’ .
30 Here it is sufficient to note that the analysis presented above offers a plausible interpretation of several distinct relationships by treating them not as unique isolates but as interlocking parts of a larger pattern with a clearly defined structure .
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