Example sentences of "[verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dreadful events took place in the south of Sri Lanka , which is dominated by the majority Sinhalese population . |
| 2 | The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process . |
| 3 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 4 | The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church . |
| 5 | The history of the past 30 years in brewing has been dominated by the emergence of a handful of giant national companies — Bass , Allied , Whitbread , GrandMet/Watney , Courage , and Scottish & Newcastle — driven by a need to maximise profit rather than concentrating on high quality products that also generate a good return . |
| 6 | All this might well be accomplished in the comparatively open-ended context of adult or continuing education , which is not dominated by the teleology of the examination system . |
| 7 | That is , their memories may just go back to Suez , they can remember where they were when Kennedy was assassinated and their formative political years were dominated by the Wilson government at home and the Vietnam war abroad . |
| 8 | The first half of the novel is dominated by the girl 's death from leukaemia . |
| 9 | Ministers will insist that , despite the image management , the party remains dominated by the left . |
| 10 | It is dominated by the imposing Citadelle de Vauban , constructed in 1549 to defend the island against invaders . |
| 11 | The ground floor has big architectural metal sculptures , dominated by the Elephant Palace whose abstract form in shiny brass echoes the monumental mass of an elephant and scores the top price at $250,000 . |
| 12 | The new five-door car , which is aimed at a middle sector of the market dominated by the VW Golf , Vauxhall Astra and Fiat Tipo , is one of Rover 's most important launches this decade . |
| 13 | Earlier this week , the first television debate in a fascinating and closely-fought Virginia gubernatorial race was dominated by the arguments for a woman 's right to choose and a foetus 's right to life . |
| 14 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 15 | For years the coupe market , once the preserve of the European manufacturers , has been dominated by the Japanese . |
| 16 | The human subject is conceived in terms of an essential , intrinsic lack ; it is a fragment of something larger and more primordial , whose existence is dominated by the desire to recover its missing complement ( The Subject of Semiotics , 152 ) . |
| 17 | The Chicago discussions were attended by fifty-one countries , many of which were still under German or Japanese occupation , so the proceedings were dominated by the USA , Britain , and the Commonwealth ( the USSR backed out at the last minute ) . |
| 18 | As the party of property the Conservatives had to cope with an electorate dominated by the propertyless , the advent of British socialism and the apparent threat to property posed by a reform-minded Liberal party . |
| 19 | One of the problems for those entrepreneurs , and other corporate managers , who do seek to act as professional industrialists is that the context in which they operate is dominated by the values described in earlier chapters . |
| 20 | By the 1920s Manupur , like so many other villages in Punjab , was dominated by the moneylending class who were Brahmins by caste . |
| 21 | The reason was that at Trico the district committee ( which in the engineering union structure is a very important body ) was dominated by the left while at Electrolux it was controlled by the right . |
| 22 | Branches dominated by the left are less likely to be racialist , but unfortunately in many areas with large immigrant populations , like Leicester and Loughborough , the important union bureaucracies are controlled by the right wing . |
| 23 | Their life-style is dominated by the tides rather than the sun and they are adjusted to the tidal , not the solar , day . |
| 24 | Some of these points are illustrated in Table 3.1 which compares the effects of sleep at night and during the day upon growth hormone release and deep sleep ( dominated by an external cause , the act of going to sleep ) and cortisol release and REM sleep ( dominated by the body clock ) . |
| 25 | Comment was dominated by the critic Mark Steyn who kicked opera in the teeth and said he 'd take Frank Loesser in preference to Puccini any time . |
| 26 | Perhaps with society more dominated by the old , there will be more respect for wisdom , sagacity . |
| 27 | Discussion of the Environmental Protection Bill will be dominated by the breaking-up of the Nature Conservancy Council and not enough attention will be given to pollution and genetically-manipulated organisms . |
| 28 | DESPITE the encouragement of 65 degrees of bright Sardinian sunshine , Italy and Argentina contrived a predictable bout of pre-World Cup shadow boxing here yesterday and played out a dull if meaningful draw in a match dominated by the defences . |
| 29 | IT IS a shame that discussion of the Environmental Protection Bill will be dominated by the ill-judged decision to dismember the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 30 | Market Square widens into Church Green , which is dominated by the tower and spire of the 13th. century Church of St. Mary . |