Example sentences of "highly [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And , of course , being a conscientious , highly professional fashion correspondent , that means what we wear in bed . |
2 | Tomo Cesen , the man who almost certainly climbed the South Face of Lhotse but forgot to take any pictures , arrived for his session with a highly professional career package . |
3 | Even the humble sparkler can cause horrific injuries when combined with a highly flammable shell suit . |
4 | It has two merits : it stops detergent from getting stuck in the dispenser and therefore wasted , and it allows a highly concentrated washing solution to engulf the clothes for the first ten minutes of a wash . |
5 | Although likely to be the least cost-effective strategy for the improvement of vitamin A status in the long term , even this approach is a highly cost-effective child survival intervention . |
6 | The insect maxilla is to be regarded as a highly modified walking limb , whose main shaft is represented by the palp and base by the cardo and stripes . |
7 | ( , ) Scales — These are highly modified clothing hairs and are characteristic of all Lepidoptera and many Collembola : they are also present in some Thysanura , Coleoptera , Diptera and Hymenoptera . |
8 | The group suggests that assays based on polymerase chain amplification of highly specific DNA sequences from these insertional elements , and recombinant and synthetic peptides from their predicted proteins , will revolutionise the detection and characterisation of these agents . |
9 | In part , this is because of the shortcomings of that highly specific subject framework . |
10 | In the acoustic sonar systems of these species , however , the mind first patterns the vocal organs to produce highly specific sound signals or patterns . |
11 | Not only does it risk making heroes and martyrs out of the perpetrators , but in practice it has led to a damaging split between reactive strategies , which are aimed at highly specific target groups , and proactive approaches which rely on nebulous generalities , viz. , ‘ creating the right ethos ’ . |
12 | A highly advanced radio communications system makes this possible . |
13 | This is why Braun has developed a highly advanced health appliance to remove plaque effectively and easily . |
14 | At the resumed inquest at Hereford Town Hall , Health and Safety Executive explosions expert Andrew Cox said the oil tank Michael Grant worked on had been full of highly inflammable oil vapour . |
15 | In addition to a highly technical assessment document , there is a duty to produce a summary that the public can read . |
16 | It 's not a highly technical sleeping bag as the price reflects , but will give you a good night sleep at temperatures down to the zero degree mark . |
17 | ‘ Blue Monday ’ , hypnotic and unrelenting , was the product of New Order 's electronic naïvety , encouraging a simplicity and humanity within the workings of the highly technical disco market . |
18 | Since the cost of the highly controversial PWR programme would have been spread over all the stations built , it has now become considerably more expensive per reactor unit . |
19 | The Indian government has announced that it is to refuse further World Bank funding for the highly controversial Narmada Dam project [ see EDs 61 ; 64 ] . |
20 | Compared to the highly controversial solution Telecom is going for , it looks as if there is going to be a difference of about £17m between locating at Montrose House and building on the Ballsbridge site . |
21 | Inevitably there are conflicts between these various functions : a highly progressive tax system may well undermine work effort among the small minority of large wealth-owners ; a strong anti-inflation policy may well mean high levels of taxation which can have effects — positive and negative — on work incentives ; and so on . |
22 | The male has highly absorbent belly feathers which enable him to store water after immersing his underparts in a water hole . |
23 | A draft copy of Mr Perez de Cuellar 's report to the Security Council shows that the force would be a highly mobile border patrol , equipped with jeeps , helicopters and speedboats . |
24 | arbitration is quicker than the highly formalised court process ; |
25 | To demonstrate that learning and memory retention can be improved in animals injected with peptides and tested under highly contrived laboratory conditions is very different from showing that human memory can be helped by popping a pill . |
26 | With a few exceptions along the coast ( such as Seaford in the 1770s ) it proved more or less impossible in Sussex where the land was largely enclosed already and the soil of much of the county ill-suited to highly profitable wheat farming ; so there was little of the trauma produced elsewhere by the restructuring of the rural landscape . |
27 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
28 | Britain 's growing involvement in the highly profitable slave trade from the middle of the seventeenth century gave further impetus to the spread of racist caricatures and subsequently to the developments of the more systematic racial classifications and doctrines of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , which added a pseudo-scientific legitimation to earlier myths ( Banton and Harwood , 1975 ) . |
29 | THE ROYAL Bank of Scotland last night dismissed the renewed speculation that it plans a stock market flotation for its highly profitable insurance subsidiary , Direct Line , writes Richard Shackleton . |
30 | The real target , News International says , is the highly profitable middle market . |