Example sentences of "[verb] by its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people , I think , would now agree that contempt for science did n't do Britain any good , and most would go further and admit that it is absurd to grow up ignorant of science in a world dominated by its theories and their application . |
| 2 | The phylum at the present is dominated by its more advanced members — the vertebrates . |
| 3 | A modern , cosmopolitan town dominated by its ancient kasbah , a huge Arab fortress overlooking the sea . |
| 4 | It is dominated by its minster , the collegiate church of St Peter and St Paul . |
| 5 | Yet Northern Ireland is like Italian politics used to be : dominated by its partyocracy and political blocs , shifts of a few percentage points represent an earthquake . |
| 6 | Si in New York , the subsidiary company must be so dominated by its parent corporation that it acts as a ‘ mere department ’ of the parent . |
| 7 | The charming market town of Southwell is dominated by its splendid Norman Minster . |
| 8 | Dominated by its massive crusader castle , Bodrum is the lively centre of peninsula life . |
| 9 | It is , first and foremost , The Haven of the Masses , a movement of the people ; neither dominated by its ministry , nor dependent on foreign indoctrination . |
| 10 | The Cathedral of S. Rufino at Assisi , begun 1144 ( now overshadowed by S. Francesco ) has a beautiful façade , very simple and dominated by its circular windows and sculptured doorways . |
| 11 | The end result is a radical and strongly challenging film , dominated by its two female stars . |
| 12 | Situated a 5 minute walk from the centre of Fuschl , the hotel is surrounded by its own gardens and stands directly facing the lake . |
| 13 | Embedded within the cytoplasm is the cell nucleus surrounded by its own special membrane . |
| 14 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 15 | The traditional monastery of the Middle Ages was self-contained , a little world on its own , surrounded by its fields and estates and tenants , an oasis in a barbarous desert . |
| 16 | Surrounded by its great park and built in brick , it was a new venture , half-way towards an elegant country house , the home of a new breed of magnate , more gentleman perhaps than knight . |
| 17 | This is a city which lives for today while surrounded by its past . |
| 18 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 19 | On the outskirts of Pattaya , this hotel is surrounded by its own beautiful gardens with its own secluded sandy beach . |
| 20 | The hotel is surrounded by its own beautiful gardens , complete with waterfalls , fountains and a freeform , fresh water swimming pool . |
| 21 | Magnificent Caerphilly Castle surrounded by its lakes |
| 22 | They believe that the world is flat and triangular ; that it is composed of seven distinct habitations … and that each is surrounded by its own peculiar sea ; that one sea is of milk ; another of sugar ; a third of butter ; a fourth of wine ; and so on … [ also that ] the whole of this world is supported on the heads of a number of elephants whose occasional motion is the cause of earthquakes . |
| 23 | Much of what we see today dates from their time : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers , two round and two square ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the might circular donjon surrounded by its own moat , and on the east side a great hall and chapel . |
| 24 | Part of the original great tower or donjon survives , but much of what can be seen today dates from the 14th and 15th centuries : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the mighty circular donjon surrounded by its own moat and , on the east side , a great hall and chapel . |
| 25 | Thurmaston had been a typical Leicestershire village with all its farmhouses and cottages clustered together and surrounded by its huge open fields until the enclosure award of 1763 . |
| 26 | But in Biomorph Land itself each occupied its own unique position , determined by its genetic formula , surrounded by its own particular neighbours . |
| 27 | Here the Pacific Plate , bowed , stretched and strained by its westward movement , is moving away from its neighbour — in this case a relatively small fragment of lithosphere known as the Nazca plate . |
| 28 | In a chamber of the palace of Winchester , a fresco depicted an eagle being attacked by its fledglings . |
| 29 | Attacked by its critics as a sort of institutional megalomania in which a defeat of free institutions anywhere was a defeat everywhere it was a supercharged containment policy in which , in defence of the perimeter , all points seemed to be of equal importance . |
| 30 | You would never know by its handling that it had anything but a normal tail unit . |