Example sentences of "[art] carefully defined " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is certainly not a typical European centralised system along the lines of France , Italy or Sweden ; nor is it a carefully defined mixed economy like West Germany , where curriculum is centralised , but under the aegis of regional parliaments ; nor is it a highly localised system with a multiplicity of small school districts , as in parts of the United States .
3 Primatologist Hans Kummer , professor at the University of Zurich , confesses that , while anyone who knows monkeys is aware that ‘ a single social act such as a scream may serve widely different goals … we have not usually had the courage to face the task of differentiating , but dutifully entered the act into our record sheet as what it clearly was : a carefully defined and carefully counted scream .
4 The houses and parks in Georgian Sussex represented leisured society at its peak ; their owners lived essentially on the basic work of others but paid for their cultivated sensibilities and elegance with a carefully defined series of public responsibilities .
5 There is a carefully defined hierarchy of offices which can provide the organisation with continuity via recruitment from below .
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