Example sentences of "highly [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As already observed , allocating resources in the public sector is often a highly political exercise . |
| 2 | It is a highly political issue with international ramifications which we are only just beginning to tackle and which will increasingly burden the agendas of the European Community 's new environmental agency . |
| 3 | The most publicized cases of such non-co-operation have occurred where some authorities have stood out against the minister on a highly political issue . |
| 4 | I suspect that , in the highly political times in which we live , Lamont will reserve any spare cash in the budget kitty for vote-catching ideas . |
| 5 | To the Editor of The Times , 18 December 1990 : Sir , You said in your leader of 14 December , ‘ the highly political decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism last October and at an exchange rate of DM2.95 to the pound looked like a mistake at the time . |
| 6 | The grafting of anti-communism onto the RPF 's ideology in the summer of 1947 was itself a highly political decision . |
| 7 | All too often the highly political organization derives from lack of clarity in the leadership as to what is expected , and lack of consensus about the common aim . |
| 8 | SMUGGLED mosaics go on show at the Mall Galleries today in a highly political show of artistic treasures from the area around Famagusta in Cyprus , writes Geraldine Norman . |
| 9 | Although these are highly political words , we use them because they are the only available ones : conceptually the area of gender-differentiation in sociology is very poorly developed . |
| 10 | Management in the public sector is a highly political process , operating in the full glare of political debate and public attention . |
| 11 | But then he went on television with his wife Hillary , a forceful , highly political lawyer . |
| 12 | The use of one language rather than another has always been a highly political matter . |
| 13 | Northern blot analysis shows that the cDNA insert from CL100 hybridizes with a single , highly inducible mRNA of about 2.4kilobases ( kb ) ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 14 | This is not to say that L'Histoire de France is not only a thought provoking but also a highly viewable volume — it most certainly is . |
| 15 | This may well be the most radical break with the way even the most highly computerized businesses are still being run today . |
| 16 | Hobhouse ‘ presented a kind of fusion of Spencer and Green ’ insofar as he believed in the scientific importance of the idea of evolution but felt that the most highly evolved society is one ‘ in which the efforts of its members are most completely coordinated to common ends , in which discord is most fully subdued to harmony . ’ |
| 17 | All but the first of these are characteristics of many less highly evolved haplochromines ( Mbuna are believed to be highly specialised descendants of a haplochromine ancestor ) , eg Astatotilapia . |
| 18 | Each distinct form of humanity had its origin at a particular point in space and time , from which it expanded throughout the world before collapsing in the face of pressure from a more highly evolved type . |
| 19 | Many highly evolved species protect their fry from being eaten , as the parents are more able to drive away a would-be predator . |
| 20 | The more highly evolved forms have more genes controlling more processes , but even viral and bacterial genetic material is similar to some parts of our own . |
| 21 | The most complex and highly evolved forms of colonialism in the insect world are those created by the relations of the wasps and bees , the ants . |
| 22 | In such highly evolved animals as insects the primitive segmentation , in so far as it affects the internal anatomy , has undergone profound modifications ; the segmental repetition of parts is nevertheless retained to some extent in the central nervous system , the heart , tracheal system and in the body musculature . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Marx assumed that this portion is capitalist personal consumption , but this is a highly simplifying assumption that does not hold once we move only marginally away from the very highest level of abstraction at which he was working . |
| 25 | A highly unsuitable drink for an old lady , she thought with satisfaction , and it was only a quarter past twelve ! |
| 26 | The terrain and the highly armed militias would soon remind them of Vietnam . |
| 27 | There is a general assumption that degreasers are less aggressive products , based either on a glycol ether or sodium metasilicate , but some manufacturers apply the description to highly caustic products that would be more appropriately defined as caustic cleaners or decarbonisers . |
| 28 | A sophisticated functionalist economy of structure , embracing on occasion a highly innovative use of cast iron , was combined with an appropriately simplified neo-classical elevational style derived from French rationalist architects such as J. N. L. Durand . |
| 29 | He was a highly innovative engineer , introducing developments in boiler design and the use of locomotive exhaust steam for pre-heating the feed water . |
| 30 | Although not yet in clinical use there is now some highly innovative potential in the treatment of disease . |