Example sentences of "highly [vb pp] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the insistence by Mr Molyneaux that there can be no distinction between the treatment of Northern Ireland and any ( highly limited and purely administrative ) devolution conceded to Scotland , when Mr Major finally ‘ takes stock ’ , rules out any power-sharing or north-south ‘ Irish dimension ’ — minimum requirements for the SDLP . |
| 2 | What was required in order to achieve a more efficient and expert government in ‘ a highly differentiated and systematically co-ordinated social order ’ was a professionalized administrative elite . |
| 3 | Her smuggled photographs were highly prized and highly priced in Moscow . |
| 4 | At the strategic level of integrating the territories into the Israeli economy , the competitive edge of Israel 's highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture destroyed the Palestinian sector almost in its entirety — although there was not an enormous amount to destroy because of the Jordanian legacy of economic neglect . |
| 5 | these large-scale colour photographs , made while Lithgow was a student in the pioneering photography school at West Surrey College of Art , have the gravitas of old masters , highly posted and unrelentingly severe studies of women and their children . |
| 6 | The designs were by Hanns Ebensten , his last collaboration with John , because he gave up his ambitions to make a career in stage design after he had visited the homes of two other ballet designers , both highly regarded and much in demand , but both living in very modest circumstances . |
| 7 | The life of a battery animal is highly stressed and completely unnatural . |
| 8 | Abundant research over the past two decades has indicated that the language employed by most adults when addressing babies and infants is , in fact , highly simplified and largely correct in terms of grammar . |
| 9 | The effect of this shift was a highly synchronized but relatively mild recession . |
| 10 | When highly decorated and very experienced operational pilots were posted to training units within Bomber Command , they invariably suffered some difficulty within these establishments . |
| 11 | By 1618–19 output had improved sufficiently , it seems , to warrant the building of a water-powered stamp-mill at a site believed to be at the foot of Red Dell or Thriddle and which , despite its altitude , was well placed to serve the mines about there which would now include the newly discovered God 's Blessing at the head of the dell and which like its namesake ( almost ) in Newlands Valley near Keswick , was highly esteemed but mistakenly so . |
| 12 | From this modest start in 1905 the publication developed into a highly respected and widely read quarterly magazine which Ayliffe edited and to which he contributed until 1947 . |
| 13 | In any event , ‘ a highly respected and very experienced professional lawyer [ was ] unlikely to be hoodwinked by a 24-year-old ’ . |
| 14 | Tim Hill , managing director of Peter Walker , which runs the Lion Tavern , said : ‘ She was a delightful persona highly respected and very popular publican . ’ |
| 15 | Tim Hill , managing director of Peter Walker , which runs the Lion Tavern , said : ‘ She was a delightful persona highly respected and very popular publican . ’ |
| 16 | they 're not angels , they 're a hard regiment , but they 're also highly disciplined and highly trained , I 've got , I , I , the other thing I could n't see what good , I mean is it , is it the , I mean its not , its not the anniversaries or any thing so I do n't know why they brought the out , cos I ca n't see what interviewing people twenty years after the thing happen can do . |
| 17 | Add the different backgrounds of the two groups ( one practical and experienced , the other highly educated but often inexperienced ) and discord is inevitable . |
| 18 | He maintains that because of the highly complex activity , interpreters should be highly educated and already fluent . |
| 19 | The Indian marriage advertisements are in fact a British invention , a hangover from the period when highly educated and thoroughly eligible ICS officers would spend their youths in remote postings in the jungles of Central India . |
| 20 | In practice , spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained . |
| 21 | Highly recommended and also good value for the region . |
| 22 | ‘ They are obviously highly committed and highly motivated people . |
| 23 | The first of these concerns the difficulty of replacing or augmenting tissues that are living , highly organised but dynamically responsive and structurally complex materials with synthetic materials that are non-living and structurally naive and unresponsive . |
| 24 | The more highly organised and consciously efficient foreign offices became , the less scope there was for the individual who did not fit easily into these bigger and more complex machines . |
| 25 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 26 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |
| 27 | Hydrocarbon exploration in overthrust belts is encouraged by these results because the highly disturbed and sometimes metamorphosed rocks of the near-surface have been shown to overlie extensive areas of flat-lying and relatively undisturbed strata , separated by a fundamental detachment zone which is commonly at a depth of only a few kilometres . |
| 28 | That is to say , the barriers to entry to the industry are such as to ensure the dominance of the highly priced and expensively packaged products . |
| 29 | By comparison with the highly organized and elaborately structured ego , Freud characterized the id as chaotic , even though in practice he attributed to it a definite and distinguishable shape . |
| 30 | But in the corporate structure this has become very much more common , in relation to a highly organized and fully capitalized market in which the direct commissioning of planned saleable products has become a normal mode . |