Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and highly [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He was the scion of a noble and highly educated family , and correspondent of Gregory the Great . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | But is this the only way in which a complicated and highly structured civilization can evolve ? |
| 35 | ‘ Hauptsturmführer Vaughan will be making a hazardous and highly secret flight across the English Channel . |
| 36 | It was becoming clear , at any rate to Griffith if to nobody else , that in a world where practical materials only reached a small and highly irregular fraction of the strength of their chemical bonds , the weakening mechanism , rather than the bond . |
| 37 | Compulsory treatment powers in the community are aimed at a small and highly selected group of people who , because of their illness , might pose a significant risk to their own health or safety or the safety of other people were they to remain without treatment , but who do not require to stay in hospital . |
| 38 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 39 | Then later in that year a composer already associated with the Barberini , the great monodist Luigi Rossi , was invited to Paris ; the best Italian singers were engaged , Torelli prepared expensive spectacles , and Rossi 's L'Orfeo was given before a small and highly select audience on 2 March 1647 . |
| 40 | The Fellowship represents an exciting opportunity for a high-profile research career and will appeal to those wishing to join a small and highly motivated research team . |
| 41 | Edith Saunders was a well-known and highly respected figure in Cambridge for many decades . |
| 42 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen of the jury , please bear in mind throughout your decision that all of the offences the defendant is being charged with have been deliberately committed in front of a young and highly impressionable public . |
| 43 | Space limitations mean one can only select a little from what was a varied and highly successful programme , so I will concentrate on two areas . |
| 44 | They therefore provide a secure and highly liquid asset for the banks . |
| 45 | He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship . |
| 46 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 47 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 48 | From 1967 to 1975 he was the Ford Foundation 's representative in Nairobi , and was responsible for developing an innovative and highly influential programme to support the process of Africanisation . |
| 49 | The Conservative Government claimed that these bodies were an unnecessary and highly expensive tier of administration . |
| 50 | While spoken language interpreting is an accepted and highly skilled profession , sign language interpreting is mainly carried out by those in a caring or managerial role with deaf people . |
| 51 | Drawing on the English obsession with class and some of the more bizarre conventions of English pantomime , MLT guarantees an unusual and highly entertaining interpretation of this witty masterpiece . |
| 52 | An able and highly successful mining engineer , he had also show outstanding ability and humanity in organizing relief for war-stricken Europe in 1919 . |
| 53 | He learnt the lesson well , and has since produced an impressive and highly original body of work . |
| 54 | The venture was an immediate and highly profitable success in the years between the Wars . |
| 55 | Wordsworth was an intelligent and highly educated man : he was a learned , clever , even a witty poet . |
| 56 | The fact that the area is an expanding and highly mobile community with a high percentage of nominal church-goers means that it is relatively easy to bring them into church services . |
| 57 | The Intimate Machine raises many issues concerning the social impact of computers in an invigorating and highly readable manner . |