Example sentences of "a highly [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Labour fought a highly professional and glossy campaign — as in 1987 — it again failed to convince people that the party and Mr Kinnock were ready to govern . |
| 2 | Most commentators agreed that the ALP also fought a highly professional and effective campaign . |
| 3 | However , what has often gone unnoticed is that in most cases this does not happen and , even more interesting , in some the outcome is what has been called ‘ outstanding ’ ; that is to say , the individual turns out to be a highly competent and sometimes very creative adult . |
| 4 | With all pupils gathered together in one room always with Roger supervising , at the end of the day , control is enforced in a highly visible and audible manner . |
| 5 | The riots occurred in places which were strongholds of Tory Anglicanism , but where there was a highly visible and influential Dissenting presence . |
| 6 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 7 | Critics of the Grid complain that , being two-dimensional , it inevitably oversimplifies a highly complex and fluid relationship between manager and staff . |
| 8 | It is to fail in other words , to understand that literature can not simply be reduced to ideology , that literature has its own specificity , and that it consequently " reflects " the social process in a highly complex and mediated form . |
| 9 | This was a highly complex and difficult task . |
| 10 | He accumulated a highly creditable and extremely valuable 39 Southern League goals for us , so that he is our fourth highest Southern League goalscorer . |
| 11 | While human evolution has oriented around the use of hand and eye , and developed down a highly visual and linear path , the dolphin mind has been on a very different track — acoustic , non-linear and non-manipulative . |
| 12 | Before his appointment to the governorship of Nigeria , Lugard had achieved a modest celebrity as the hero of various military adventures on the imperial frontier , usually of a highly individual and insubordinate kind ; by the time he left Nigeria in 1919 his fame as both a practitioner and a theorist of imperialism was assured . |
| 13 | In this way the surface output , being as it is so critically dependent on transformational pedigree , becomes a highly labile and volatile product . |
| 14 | They were policy , but of a highly odd and experimental kind . |
| 15 | As always , the Chairman and other members have represented the Young Bar at various overseas events , and it is always striking to note in other countries the extent to which the Young Bar forms a highly influential and powerful part of the Bar organisation . |
| 16 | IVF is a highly unsuccessful and dangerous technology . |
| 17 | Based again on the School 's Development Plan , such a full-plan approach attempts to use a decision-making model for budget preparation which proceeds in a highly rational and ordered sequence . |
| 18 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 19 | He accepts the need to introduce more formalized management procedures in principle , but in practice continues to operate a highly personal and informal management system marked by the absence of rigid rules , working practices or job specifications . |
| 20 | Consequently , it is recognized that what is offered can only be a highly personal and limited selection of developments in disciplines other than financial management , with a few isolated ideas on linkages between them . |
| 21 | Since the student is describing a series of very simple events which he has just been watching , it might be expected that he would produce a highly fluent and error-free description with no hesitations . |
| 22 | It should be remembered that Xenophon was no weak sentimentalist , but a highly skilled and successful military commander . |
| 23 | This is a highly skilled and sensitive business , but it is a capacity which will be in increasing demand from management developers : it involves combining the skills of the counsellor with those of the management consultant . |
| 24 | Is the Minister confident that medical officers carry out only one examination in each case , and is it conducted in a highly skilled and compassionate manner ? |
| 25 | We are fortunate in BP to have a highly skilled and dedicated workforce . |
| 26 | Describing the drug problem , and particularly crack ( a highly potent and addictive derivative of cocaine ) , as " the gravest domestic threat facing our nation " , Bush called for " unified action " in a war against drugs . |
| 27 | Neil Kinnock fought , personally , a highly effective and energetic campaign . |
| 28 | Together the Pethick-Lawrences transformed the WSPU into a highly effective and financially buoyant political organization . |
| 29 | The genus Cirrhilabrus embraces just such a highly colourful and generally-peaceful collection of species , often known as Fairy Wrasse , which keep to manageable sizes and maintain a radiant beauty throughout their lifetime . |
| 30 | They know him only as a highly efficient and exacting captain . |