Example sentences of "so highly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An answer comes from X-ray observations by the Ginga satellite of iron atoms in the bulge that are so highly ionized that they retain only two electrons . |
| 2 | And although this is conjecture , I feel it should be mentioned , if only because the primal mother-child relationship so highly emphasised in post-Freudian psychoanalytic literature has been largely ignored by those who have written about anorexia nervosa . |
| 3 | In Japan ‘ Grand Champions ’ are so highly prized that they are officially made wards of court , and can not be exported from the country . |
| 4 | The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers . |
| 5 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 6 | The features of the face are sometimes treated in the same simplified way , or else are so highly stylized that they become simply decorative signs . |
| 7 | Polo parks ( one was constructed recently at Châteaux Giscours ) , marble bottling halls ( Michel Delon 's at Léoville-Lascases is so highly polished that workers have been issued with special boots ) , Versailles-style formal gardens with sunken cellars provide the spectacular icing on the cake of wealth accumulated by the leading châteaux over the last decade by the simple expedient of charging much more for their wines than it costs to make them . |
| 8 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 9 | Neville Cardus wrote , ‘ Bradman did little that was more wonderful and so highly charged with his own force of character than his dazzling improvisation , his neck-to-nothing brilliance , in the face of the ruthless challenge of Jardine . ’ |
| 10 | Love is so highly charged you want to be left in peace or left with Andrew 's piece . |
| 11 | The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed . |
| 12 | He thinks his country is so highly developed ! |
| 13 | These studies defined a pathway that is at the heart of growth control in higher eukaryotic organisms , one which is so highly conserved that its components are functionally interchangeable between mammals , flies and worms . |
| 14 | The high frequency vibrations were so highly favoured that an infinite amount of energy would be present in them . |
| 15 | Barson 's powers of tackling and leadership were so highly regarded that United had paid £5,000 — a huge fee at the time , especially for a defender — for his transfer from Aston Villa in 1922 . |
| 16 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 17 | So highly regarded was the mistletoe , that it had to be cut with a golden knife . |
| 18 | Primarily associated with fertility , so highly regarded in primitive times for the continuity of the group , this powerful force was often controlled and restricted by taboos , some of which have survived into modern times as codes of social behaviour , but deeply affected by both prudery and prurience which usually operated together . |
| 19 | First is the fact that the same person should be so highly regarded by one English department while being accused of engaging in " discredited intellectual enquiry " in another ; second is the fact that the failure to offer a tenured post to an English teacher at Cambridge should provide the occasion for such unparalleled radio , television , and newspaper coverage of English studies . |
| 20 | A main reason why lapis lazuli was so highly regarded in antiquity was the brilliance of its colour , blue flecked with gold . |
| 21 | Lovegrove , 33 , is one of the handful of industrial designers who are so highly regarded in the international arena that they can win commissions from Hermés , one of France 's most famous luxury goods groups . |
| 22 | How on earth is it that , in London , where teaching hospitals are so highly regarded , the issue of trust status has been postponed indefinitely , but in Foresterhill a key teaching hospital is being asked to take trust status ? |
| 23 | Only then does he discover that the system of which he is a hero is not so highly regarded by all its customers . |
| 24 | Two niggling reservations lingered about Pinza as a Derby horse : his physique — a big horse , he might not be nimble enough down Tattenham Hill — and his temperament , for he was so highly strung that he was invariably ridden by a stable lad when led around the paddock , and the drawn-out preliminaries of the Derby might cause him to boil over . |
| 25 | If physical integrity is so highly valued , would it be inappropriate to make it clear that an offence would be committed by any normal adult who failed to see an obvious risk of physical harm to another ? |
| 26 | Turner 's Slave Ship which was so highly praised by Ruskin , shows faithfully the horror and evil of that traffic and it is the emotion , not the technique that has given the painting its immortality . |
| 27 | I 've gone through courses like Alternatives to Violence and Psychodrama , which are so highly pressured , that I know if I can do those . |
| 28 | Stephen had asked her to join him and the new general manager in his office that morning , and she had been eager to meet the young hotelier who came so highly qualified . |
| 29 | C1 was to be a two-year course for 16-plus school-leavers with suitable qualifications , leading to a certificate or diploma comparable in status to an OND , while C2 would normally be of two years ' duration and would be for students not so highly qualified or well-motivated as those taking C1 courses . |
| 30 | All the other applicants seemed so highly qualified , I thought they 'd probably turn up their noses at what — between ourselves , Ianthe — is really rather a stooge 's job . |