Example sentences of "a [adv] defined " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously though , prices have increased , and a properly defined index should reflect this , by taking into account the qualitative change in the drawings sold over the two years . |
| 2 | We must look at the behaviour from a properly defined structural viewpoint . |
| 3 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 4 | So a people with a common culture , history , language should live in a separately defined state . |
| 5 | Biological explanations of fertility based on principles of maximizing a broadly defined reproductive success ( Wilson 1975 ) have been useful in non-human species and have been applied to human populations with natural fertility ( Borgerhoff-Mulder 1987 ) , in an attempt to relate reproductive success with the resources available to women . |
| 6 | The same is true of town and village rugs , and individual items that clearly originate from a broadly defined area or region , but can not be tied down to a specific village or town will be marketed under the name of the general location . |
| 7 | He or she is a third party intermediary in a broadly defined accountability relationship between , on the one hand , government and management , and on the other hand , politicians and the public at large . |
| 8 | " Trust beneficiaries " is a specially defined term . |
| 9 | We have therefore created a biochemically defined model system to explore this hypothesis . |
| 10 | A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so . |
| 11 | One is that the investigator needs to know the rules , conventions , and context governing the action — the meaning of the action regarded as a move in a socially defined ‘ game ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps not , but while the 7–9 hour sleeping habit is certainly based on physiological need , it seems to be a socially defined and somewhat procrustean norm imposed on all of us whatever our individual needs , which are probably genetically determined . |
| 13 | Although AI believes in the indivisibility of human rights , the campaigning work of the organisation focuses on issues within a strictly defined mandate : No one should be imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their beliefs , or because of their colour , sex , ethnic origin or religion ; no one should be tortured , ill-treated or executed ; all political prisoners should receive prompt and fair trials . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is a carefully defined hierarchy of offices which can provide the organisation with continuity via recruitment from below . |
| 18 | In the police this desire for a clearly defined world of order derives from an implicit understanding that control of social behaviour is always surrounded by the dirt of structural ambivalence . |
| 19 | Along with the review of existing data , a clearly defined set of objectives needs to be defined . |
| 20 | Pöhl has argued that his proposed central banking system ‘ would have an adequately democratic legal base if it came about by agreement between democratic governments , ratified by democratically elected parliaments , and if the system were provided with a clearly defined mandate ’ . |
| 21 | In these circumstances , the mental model of a text is , in a clearly defined sense , incomplete , since links between names and participants in actions are not included in the representation . |
| 22 | Such inducements can be caught by British law as having a clearly defined ‘ tendency to deprave and corrupt ’ . |
| 23 | So it is that for Douglas MacBain it is a clearly defined aim to consider setting targets for numbers of churches to be planted in the coming decade and to work to facilitate this . |
| 24 | Moreover , process production produces a clearly defined primary task for both management and men — that of keeping the plant running as near full capacity as possible . |
| 25 | To the advocates of reductionism and materialism , or the sceptical at heart , the Hindus have a clearly defined answer for that condition : |
| 26 | Where the terms of a settlement are so framed that a clearly defined person can benefit ( for example if the class of beneficiaries includes ‘ any spouse of the settlor ’ or ‘ spouse of the settlor 's children' ) or such persons could be added to the class of beneficiaries , then the settlor will be treated as having an ‘ interest ’ in the trust . |
| 27 | These activities inescapably take place within a specific cultural context , which may be a clearly defined mono-cultural situation , or , more frequently , within a multi-cultural environment . |
| 28 | ‘ Use ’ is to be preferred as a charge on the grounds that it is easier to prove , being a clearly defined term , and attracts less defences than ‘ cause ’ and ‘ permits ’ . |
| 29 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 30 | in hyper-text systems , the internal structure of the nodes can be left undefined whereas in data-base technology there is a clearly defined structure for each specific text object at lower levels of the class hierarchy . |