Example sentences of "highly [vb pp] " 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 | A machine without human guidance is inflexible and highly limited in recognition and learning facilities . |
| 3 | Our knowledge about mental health in later life remains patchy and is , in many domains , highly limited . |
| 4 | Employment opportunities for school-leavers in rural areas are usually highly limited and their choice is often further circumscribed by a lack of personal mobility . |
| 5 | And the angel came in unto her , and said , ‘ Hail , thou that art highly favoured , the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among woman . ’ |
| 6 | Cain was jealous and upset to think that his brother was more highly favoured with God . |
| 7 | The crossbow is known in the Empire but is not highly favoured . |
| 8 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 9 | The patronage of royal saintly cults implied dynastic predispositions and one cult highly favoured in Wilfridian circles and at Hexham in particular was Oswald 's . |
| 10 | Terence Place , although highly favoured for the job , had not confessed and might never do so . |
| 11 | Whereas under normal circumstances the Agriculture portfolio was highly coveted , as it offered the opportunity to win lifelong allies within the powerful farming lobby , the current international pressure was deemed to have made it unattractive . |
| 12 | The purely judgemental methods have highly prescribed procedures . |
| 13 | Exploration by the BGS , including shallow drilling , located stratabound lead mineralisation in highly altered and weathered Ordovician subaerial acid lavas and tuffs in the Builth Wells area ( MRP 92 ) . |
| 14 | oh that 's the way we did it and we got it something off , this guy also said which some auctioneers like who are highly recognized |
| 15 | Why do some countries have a structure which is characterised predominantly by either highly centralised or industry-wide agreements , whereas others have far more decentralised arrangements ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The current local government system is highly centralised and unsuited to the wider distribution of power featured in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 18 | If the formal organisation is highly centralised , there will be limits to how far a task can be restructured by an individual manager . |
| 19 | The age of the organisation : many businesses and other organisations begin to grow through the efforts of a few individuals ( eg. owner-directors , or the founder of a political pressure group ) and tend to be highly centralised ( power culture ) . |
| 20 | The British system of government … was already highly centralised in 1979 , and subsequent legislation has produced a quantum jump towards a more powerful and centralised state ’ . |
| 21 | If we had such highly centralised decision-making it would not matter who won elections or who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , because such issues would be decided elsewhere . |
| 22 | Since then , as has previously been noted for interregional migration , the composition of migration streams from the cities has become even more highly skewed towards the better-off . |
| 23 | Second , it is highly differentiated . |
| 24 | In contrast to television , the press was highly differentiated : different papers reached very different audiences with very different messages . |
| 25 | From the point of view of the outsider the descent group appears as undifferentiated and this will be expressed by statements of the commonality of the resources of claim while , from the point of view of the insider dealing with other insiders the descent group appears highly differentiated . |
| 26 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 27 | Work was highly differentiated according to sex . |
| 28 | Spencer 's ideological orientation was therefore libertarian : societies evolve from homogeneity to heterogeneity ; industrial society is highly differentiated and its government exhibits limitation of scope and diffusion of authority ; as civilization advances , so does government decay . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In complex and highly differentiated societies there is such an abundance of different sorts of skills and knowledge which one might learn that a reliance on informal means for their successful acquisition would be useless . |