Example sentences of "be [prep] a highly [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this sounds like a trite tear-jerker , the writing and acting are of a highly intelligent quality and Joan Knight 's production never becomes mawkish . |
| 2 | EC Commissioner Henning Christophersen said the five-year loan was highly exceptional , ‘ but then we 're in a highly exceptional situation ’ . |
| 3 | EC Commissioner Henning Christophersen said the five-year loan was highly exceptional , ‘ but then we 're in a highly exceptional situation ’ . |
| 4 | Consequently accountants are in a highly dependent position compared to most professions ; it is difficult for them to use professionalism as a market strategy . |
| 5 | The explanation for adult personality , in other words , is to be found in the individual 's first encounters with the world , at a time when he is thought to be in a highly impressionable state . |
| 6 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ In the sectors we are targeting , the need is for a highly specialist sales force which can identify and respond to ever-changing demands . |
| 8 | Thus requests for further particulars of allegations against an individual may be denied where the information received by the Secretary of State is of a highly confidential nature and relates to national security . |
| 9 | Astron , weighing 3½ tonnes , is in a highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a height of 2000 km up to 200 000 km , half way to the Moon . |
| 10 | The Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service each practised its own system of careful selection , but up to and including the First World War recruitment to the Colonial Service — or rather the assemblage of small local services which made it up — was on a highly casual basis . |