Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LNU was dominated by Lord Robert Cecil who , as a minister under Lloyd George , had been instrumental in persuading the wartime Government to take the idea of the League seriously . |
| 2 | THE week 's news was dominated by Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's failed attempt to stave off a rise in bank base rates . |
| 3 | Intra-EC trade is much more important for spirits than for other alcoholic drinks and such trade is dominated by UK exports of Scotch . |
| 4 | The southern aspect is dominated by Pegasus , which is large but not so bright as might be thought from its aspect on the maps . |
| 5 | It is no longer a counterbalance to the COMECON block of east European countries dominated by Moscow . |
| 6 | The PLO , dominated by Fatah , reaped the fruits while the Patriotic Front fell apart as a result of the undermining effect of the Palestinian right , the enormous surge in PLO power following the Rabat summit of October 1974 and Arafat 's address to the General Assembly of the United Nations the following month . |
| 7 | Danzig found that whether it liked it or not , its life was dominated by Poland . |
| 8 | His administration was dominated by ADEMA , which had won the majority of seats in the March legislative elections [ see p. 38801 ] , but in keeping with Konare 's commitment to involve other political parties , significant posts went to Baba Atif Aidara of the Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally ( US-RDA ) and Idrissa Traore of the Democracy and Progress Party ( PDP ) . |
| 9 | The " government " was dominated by KLF members , but also included Sayyed Ali Shah Gilani , leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami . |
| 10 | After 1870 the German Reich , dominated by Prussia , proved equally incapable of cutting subsidy to the Junkers . |
| 11 | The macro- and microflora from Upper Permian deposits in southern Africa are dominated by Glossopteris , which formed monospecific forests or woodlands along river banks and on elevated grounds . |
| 12 | The ÖVP in Carinthia , although it was part of the provincial governing coalition dominated by Haider 's FPÖ , nevertheless supported an SPÖ resolution passed by the Landtag calling for Haider 's resignation . |
| 13 | Zambia emerged into the tailored industrial park , most of which was dominated by Roirbak 's hangars . |
| 14 | Last week , with the launch of chocolate snack Time Out , it wheeled out the big guns for a direct assault on the mainstream snacking market dominated by Nestlé ( Kit Kat ) and Mars ( Twix ) . |
| 15 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 16 | The Iagifu-Hedina oilfield in the Southern Highlands Province which was being developed by a consortium dominated by Chevron and BP was on target to begin production by 1993 . |
| 17 | This feeling is reinforced by the fact that the community councils , ln which such debate rages , are dominated by Shetlanders and are seen by incomers as existing to serve the interests of Shetlanders only . |
| 18 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 19 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 20 | Politically , Britain feared that if the Six were to go ahead and form the EEC , it would generate a unit that would be dominated by West Germany . |
| 21 | The skyline south of Newcastle is dominated by Slieve Donard . |
| 22 | Despite the obvious influence of Impressionism in the appearance of Walker 's pictures she also worked under the umbrella of ‘ decorative symbolism ’ — belonging more specifically to a tradition dominated by Puvis de Chavannes , which was authoritatively identified in relation to Augustus John by David Fraser Jenkins in his essay ‘ Slade School Symbolism ’ for the Barbican exhibition catalogue , the Last Romantics ( 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Zenith is the last US-owned TV manufacturer in a market dominated by Japan . |
| 24 | Furthermore , we have to recognise Europe 's place in the world economy dominated by Japan and the USA . |
| 25 | Dominated by Gary Newby 's Freemans catalogue vocals , there is n't a chord or a shimmering crescendo out of place . |
| 26 | In 1962 , the Queen 's Speech debate was dominated by Europe . |
| 27 | By the eighteenth century , the music of the Iberian Peninsula , so long dominated by North European developments , had a decidedly Italianate weave : Scarlattian , even occasionally Vivaldian threads run through the texture . |
| 28 | Never less than thoroughly fascinating , the production is dominated by Ian McKellen 's extraordinary Iago , a performance which feels like a shifting palimpsest of impersonations . |
| 29 | A JP of Middlesex and Westminster for many years , he searched for papists and for popish books , and was employed by the committee of the House of Lords for the examination of witnesses , dominated by Shaftesbury . |
| 30 | It represented all shades of opinion , but it was dominated by Sukarno . |