Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and highly [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |
| 2 | In addition to the established and highly successful Master 's Degree Course in Highway Engineering for Developing Countries , the School of Civil Engineering is now setting up a parallel Masters ' Course in Traffic Engineering for Developing Countries . |
| 3 | This volume demonstrates beyond any further doubt that the traditional classificatory geographical paradigm is inadequate and that , in the context of the ‘ new geography ’ , an irreversible step has been taken to push us back into the mainstream of scientific activity by way of the uncomfortable and highly specialized process of model-building . |
| 4 | The unique and highly flavoursome style of Russian music-making — those remarkable timbres called upon by the singers , the extraordinary depth of the tone offered by the orchestral strings and the sound of the brass — is now being captured using the finest technology that we , in the West , have come to expect . |
| 5 | Profitability had fallen by one-third and the fast and highly synchronized boom of the previous couple of years had failed to restore it . |
| 6 | Best New Band was the smooth and highly wrought funk ensemble , Roadside Picnic ( it would be nice to think that the more raw-boned but full-blooded Pinski Zoo had run them close ) , Andy Sheppard walked off with both Best Instrumentalist and Best Album prizes ( the latter for Introductions In The Dark ) , and Stan Tracey picked up Best Composer . |
| 7 | Even the English paid grudging tribute to this ; those who accompanied Margaret Tudor north in 1503 , for her marriage to Mary 's grandfather , James IV , were less than gracious about the elaborate and highly expensive entertainment provided by the king , but their contempt was mitigated , for they ‘ returned into their country giving more praise to the manhood than to the good manner and nurture of Scotland ’ . |
| 8 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 9 | The Lord Chancellor began with the complacent and highly debatable observation that ‘ we are likely … to get a better assessment of the qualities of some eminent judge of the past through an existing member of the judiciary than from anyone else ’ . |
| 10 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 11 | So not only have they got the cheap labour , they 've got the cheap and highly effective machinery . |
| 12 | Mindful of the manner in which the fortresses of Liege and Namur had been taken prior to the Battle of the Marne , at relatively little cost , by the use of the new and highly effective howitzer , General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered up a 42cm version of this formidable weapon and commenced the bombardment of the city 's outer fortifications on the night of 27/28 September . |
| 13 | MY husband and I arrived home in Dumfriesshire , after a memorable and highly emotional weekend in dear old Liverpool . |
| 14 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 15 | Another much earlier Hercules scene in a lively and highly naturalistic manner is on a silver-gilt phiale from the Thracian treasure hoard from Rogozen , Bulgaria , dated to c . |
| 16 | Energy conservation success in France is attributed to a high level of investment in energy saving as a result of a clear and highly visible policy and , as with nuclear power , centralised responsibility . |
| 17 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work . |
| 20 | Deems was a soft and highly coloured man who spoke always in a low voice . |
| 21 | What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism . |
| 22 | Built in greater numbers than any other biplane in the western world , these lovely old machines combine classic good looks with safe and affordable flying characteristics to produce a unique and highly desirable alternative to other forms of capital appreciation . |
| 23 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 24 | This scheme , for which N. F. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1989 , enables the maximum resolution to be extracted without the need for a long and highly uniform interaction region . |
| 25 | A major and highly publicised target has been the welfare ‘ scroungers ’ , whether these are young people allegedly on the ‘ Costa del Dole ‘ , looking for seasonal casual work in seaside towns , or those who are claiming while working . |
| 26 | Hancock 's ‘ Collection ’ is a fascinating and highly enjoyable perusal through Hancock 's career between circa 1978 and the early ‘ 80's . |
| 27 | The New Deal was a complex and highly significant process of change , the effects of which have continued to be felt in American history ever since the 1930s . |
| 28 | Add to this the quantitative regulation of expression of cell adhesion molecules in response , for example , to inflammatory mediators and associated with changes in cellular differentiation , and we find a complex and highly responsive set of cellular adhesion mechanisms whose role in normal tissue formation and disease is only beginning to be understood . |
| 29 | A noisy and highly gregarious bird , uttering loud goose-like honking cries in flight . |
| 30 | Nitrogen dioxide , a reddish-brown and highly reactive gas , is mainly produced in the atmosphere from the oxidation of nitric oxide formed when fuel is burned at high temperatures . |