Example sentences of "a [adv] [adv] defined [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On domestic issues he had a less clearly defined reform agenda of his own . |
| 2 | It seems highly probable that the northern kingdom achieved a greater cohesion and a more rigorously defined hierarchy of power in the decade or so after Winwaed . |
| 3 | Panspermia , for example , is a more rigorously defined statement that precursors of organic molecules are to be found in space , which in itself is neither an original nor a controversial finding . |
| 4 | As for the Hooligans , newspaper cartoonists ' sketches of their dress permutation depicted a more sharply defined style than anything that can be discerned by modern eyes from surviving photographs of the period — although that should not surprise us , because it is also a characteristic feature of the emphasis given to the cut of clothes within ‘ high ’ fashion sketches . |
| 5 | Local authorities are to take charge of responding to social care needs , health authorities to health care needs , with a fairly firmly defined boundary between the two . |
| 6 | Although other Christian groups such as the Methodists and Catholics were active in Rhodesia a kind of gentleman 's agreement meant each kept within a fairly well defined territory . |
| 7 | The other crucial difference between the types of memory test is that in a recognition test there is generally a relatively well defined set of distractor items . |
| 8 | To a geologist , for instance , the Pacific Ocean is a very sharply defined depression of the earth 's surface which has been formed as a result of the complicated processes of plate tectonics . |
| 9 | Bees do have , however , a very tightly defined repertoire of skills and learning ability . |
| 10 | The same technique could also enable a loudspeaker to pump sound into a very tightly defined area . |