Example sentences of "highly [vb pp] and [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Staff is , in the words of one expert , ‘ a highly centralised and powerful organisation with immense prestige ’ ; but it is not a law unto itself . |
| 2 | The outcome of these developments is , therefore , a ‘ highly differentiated and fragmented form of government ’ ( Dunleavy 1982 : 185 ) , in which co-ordination is achieved as much by negotiation and bargaining between agencies as by imperative , bureaucratic control mechanisms . |
| 3 | Since fewer than ten English harpsichords survive from this period it was therefore something of a rarity , and quite obviously a highly prized and valuable acquisition . |
| 4 | On the more serious side , it is doubtful that the elephants have anything to gain from their new highly polluted and noisy environment . |
| 5 | Instead , in an open world economy , unemployment is more likely to be genuinely structural , a problem of an underskilled workforce in an economy that demands highly socialised and trained labour . |
| 6 | For this we have to thank Professor Hinsley , a highly respected and trustworthy historian , who would not allow deceptions to appear under his name . |
| 7 | One of the 84 co-sponsors of the Senate resolution was Robert Dole , the highly respected and influential Republican minority leader in the Senate . |
| 8 | In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite . |
| 9 | The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people . |
| 10 | Others suggest that it will be the automated machinery and systems which will take over all the routine tasks , and thus the impact of the new technology will be to require a more highly educated and trained workforce to perform complex tasks which need a high level of human decision-making skill . |
| 11 | And they 're highly educated and articulate people , so when they do n't like what you 've said , God can they insult you beautifully ! ’ |
| 12 | It will be the best schools and the most highly committed and able teachers who will suffer the greatest stress and hardship if they are constrained and over-burdened by insensitive administrations . |
| 13 | The County Council is offering three posts and applications are welcomed from highly committed and enthusiastic professionals who are keen to work in an action-orientated team . |
| 14 | Speech is , of course , in its very nature a highly organised and complex sequence of sounds , but there is more to speech and language than sequential motor activity ( Poeck and Huber , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | The output of the growers is marshalled by half a dozen highly organised and professional marketers who have taken a huge slice of the market , including the multiples . |
| 16 | Below , we found a highly organised and well-maintained saloon . |
| 17 | The most highly organised and valuable system of giving in kind is the gift of blood . |
| 18 | Farm thefts and poaching are now highly organised and big business . |
| 19 | To a certain extent this limit is transcended in social insects — bees or ants , for example — which live in a highly organized and cooperative community . |
| 20 | In his highly condensed and powerful analysis , Buckley ( 1984 ) details how the siege becomes interpreted by today 's protestant loyalists according to a key paradigm mediating their experience of the world . |
| 21 | There is frequently a " personal " element in poetry , but this element is couched within a highly formalised and conventional genre . |
| 22 | Within an amazingly short time he developed into a highly accomplished and individual painter . |
| 23 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |
| 24 | The match commentator will be the highly experienced and versatile David Fordham . |
| 25 | In some , the potential of TTT was wasted because support teachers were marginalized ; in others , highly experienced and qualified coordinators had to be content with a merely facilitating role . |
| 26 | In the period after liberation the nation had highly confused and contradictory aspirations . |
| 27 | Comparison between this last work , with its highly charged and colourful imagery , and Avitus of Vienne 's work on chastity , which approaches the same subject through an examination of his own family , reveals a vast difference in the imagination of the two writers , and does suggest that despite the continuities , there had been a sharp change of taste in the first half of the sixth century . |
| 28 | That of course is to express what can be a complicated legal matter in a simple way , but in highly charged and volatile situations the maintenance of such a balance by the police and trades union officials is not always easy . |
| 29 | And Dounreay , which for the moment is the major employer of highly trained and specialised employees ; wage packets are accordingly high . |
| 30 | We also recognise that highly trained and motivated people are critical to the achievement of our objectives . |