Example sentences of "[det] than fully [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Number crunching by day , he is also more than fully active after work and at weekends . |
| 2 | But neither of these is fully regulated which means that teachers may perhaps find themselves working for less than fully professional organisations . |
| 3 | There is a terrifying slippery slope in the process , by which old people come to be regarded as less than fully human and are therefore not treated as persons deserving equal respect . |
| 4 | Throughout the history of Western philosophy women have been thought inferior or less than fully human , though some philosophers , like Kant and Rousseau , have found them charming and necessary to men 's well-being , as long as they keep in their place . |
| 5 | From the very start of " the expansion of Europe " the invaders tended to treat all the newly discovered peoples of Southern Africa and the Americas as less than fully human , a convenient doctrine which implied that they were legitimate objects for enslavement , exploitation and extermination . |
| 6 | Many labour markets appear to fall into this category , with wage rates being determined through complex institutional arrangements and bargaining processes which seem to imply that they will be less than fully flexible . |
| 7 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 8 | The overplus of the Greek over the Hebrew was not regarded by Origen as less than fully canonical ; the suggestion that the overplus should be read for example of life and instruction of manners , but not to establish disputed doctrine , was left to Jerome . |
| 9 | ‘ Because the issue was public against private rather than the relationship between private and public , Britain has suffered from a less than fully productive public sector and a less than fully responsible private sector , neither of which were satisfactory engines for growth . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , in line with Sag & Hankamer 's suggestions , once the attention of a literate person is directed to the examples in our corpus , they often appear less than fully acceptable . |
| 11 | These were the first men of less than fully aristocratic background to gain prominence through their merit . |
| 12 | So A would be less than fully co-operative or rational if he did not think that B knew ( or could find out ) where he was . |