Example sentences of "a [adv] defined [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must look at the behaviour from a properly defined structural viewpoint . |
| 2 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 3 | Biological explanations of fertility based on principles of maximizing a broadly defined reproductive success ( Wilson 1975 ) have been useful in non-human species and have been applied to human populations with natural fertility ( Borgerhoff-Mulder 1987 ) , in an attempt to relate reproductive success with the resources available to women . |
| 4 | It is certainly not a typical European centralised system along the lines of France , Italy or Sweden ; nor is it a carefully defined mixed economy like West Germany , where curriculum is centralised , but under the aegis of regional parliaments ; nor is it a highly localised system with a multiplicity of small school districts , as in parts of the United States . |
| 5 | They form a clearly defined revolutionary group , and have been called the Pioneers . |
| 6 | There was a great crowd , singing , shouting , all very good-humoured — not , I think , because they were taking the situation lightly but because they were buoyed up by the feeling that here was something quite above ordinary political argument , a clearly defined moral issue on which people could stand up and be counted . |
| 7 | Moreover , process production produces a clearly defined primary task for both management and men — that of keeping the plant running as near full capacity as possible . |
| 8 | The majority of LEAs did not accept that a clearly defined technical ability could be clearly identified at the age of eleven . |
| 9 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 10 | These activities inescapably take place within a specific cultural context , which may be a clearly defined mono-cultural situation , or , more frequently , within a multi-cultural environment . |
| 11 | Its accounts of anorexia , for instance , are dominated by descriptions of how dominant discourses of femininity link a narrowly defined physical attractiveness to female sexuality and success . |
| 12 | R to the continuum then every atom would move to a well defined new position . |
| 13 | Although the cusp has long been considered a well defined spatial structure maintained by continuous reconnection , it has recently been suggested r4–6 that reconnection instead may take place in a series of discontinuous events ; this is the ‘ pulsating cusp model ’ . |
| 14 | Metronidazole was chosen because of its wide use in gastroenterology ( diverticulitis , small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndromes , sepsis , etc ) and because it has a well defined antimicrobial spectrum . |
| 15 | It has been recently shown that enzyme III from both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria has a well defined binding pocket which is very hydrophobic and is doughnut-shaped , with the phosphoryl-accepting residue , His90 , located in a central depression of the hydrophobic ring . |
| 16 | It may often seem that some critical practitioners within established disciplinary frameworks which insist on treating literary texts as documents or , oppositely , as eternal works of art or according to a closely defined theoretical structure , proffer pronouncements on texts and history which are exclusively self-confident and definitive . |