Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] highly [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY husband and I arrived home in Dumfriesshire , after a memorable and highly emotional weekend in dear old Liverpool . |
| 2 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 3 | Another much earlier Hercules scene in a lively and highly naturalistic manner is on a silver-gilt phiale from the Thracian treasure hoard from Rogozen , Bulgaria , dated to c . |
| 4 | Energy conservation success in France is attributed to a high level of investment in energy saving as a result of a clear and highly visible policy and , as with nuclear power , centralised responsibility . |
| 5 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 6 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 7 | Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work . |
| 8 | Deems was a soft and highly coloured man who spoke always in a low voice . |
| 9 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |
| 10 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 11 | A couple of hours later she was bundling a sleepy but highly excited Kirsty into the back seat of the car , then heading towards Glasgow with a huge sigh of relief . |
| 12 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 13 | Built in greater numbers than any other biplane in the western world , these lovely old machines combine classic good looks with safe and affordable flying characteristics to produce a unique and highly desirable alternative to other forms of capital appreciation . |
| 14 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 15 | This scheme , for which N. F. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1989 , enables the maximum resolution to be extracted without the need for a long and highly uniform interaction region . |
| 16 | A major and highly publicised target has been the welfare ‘ scroungers ’ , whether these are young people allegedly on the ‘ Costa del Dole ‘ , looking for seasonal casual work in seaside towns , or those who are claiming while working . |
| 17 | Hancock 's ‘ Collection ’ is a fascinating and highly enjoyable perusal through Hancock 's career between circa 1978 and the early ‘ 80's . |
| 18 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 19 | The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s . |
| 20 | Add to this the quantitative regulation of expression of cell adhesion molecules in response , for example , to inflammatory mediators and associated with changes in cellular differentiation , and we find a complex and highly responsive set of cellular adhesion mechanisms whose role in normal tissue formation and disease is only beginning to be understood . |
| 21 | A noisy and highly gregarious bird , uttering loud goose-like honking cries in flight . |
| 22 | Nitrogen dioxide , a reddish-brown and highly reactive gas , is mainly produced in the atmosphere from the oxidation of nitric oxide formed when fuel is burned at high temperatures . |
| 23 | Published in the year in which the ROC stood down , The Royal Observer Corps in Lincolnshire 1936–1991 by Charles Parker , is a short but highly informative description of the Corps in Lincolnshire , from its formative years to its ultimate disbanding in 1991 , with an appendix listing all the ROC posts in the county . |
| 24 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 25 | He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family , and correspondent of Gregory the Great . |
| 26 | Frame had since 1961 been a dynamic and highly successful liaison officer , and could reasonably have been expected to serve the BDDA for several more years . |
| 27 | But is this the only way in which a complicated and highly structured civilization can evolve ? |
| 28 | ‘ Hauptsturmführer Vaughan will be making a hazardous and highly secret flight across the English Channel . |
| 29 | Wallis made a small but highly original contribution to the art and connoisseurship of his time . |
| 30 | In the same way , attempts by a small but highly articulate pressure group around the journal Nature , founded in 1869 to argue for the social utility of scientific research , gained only limited success . |