Example sentences of "[verb] by a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
| 2 | By implication , the whole thrust of post-war economic policy had been misguided , dominated by a totally unrealistic fear of a return to the 1930s . |
| 3 | The event opens with some of his more recent ‘ topiary ’ interpretations of the Minster , where the whole is dominated by a very powerful interpretation of the Crucifixion that owes much to Matthias Grunewald ( 1475/801528 ) the Mathis der Maler of Hindemith 's opera . |
| 4 | The form of slave production and exploitation and subsequent colonial development of the West Indies has also ensured for most of the islands a fate similar to that of many modern African states : a form of ‘ peripheral ’ development in which individual economies are dominated by a very small number of cash crops , often the same as those cultivated under the original system of slavery , the income from which is dependent on world commodity prices subject to considerable fluctuation and open to manipulation by metropolitan powers ( Beckford , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | The formalities were completed sitting on a makeshift seat of boxes surrounded by a rather bedraggled crowd of schoolboys . |
| 6 | In the Chief Constable 's view the use of force was ‘ fully justified ’ , believing himself surrounded by a criminally hostile population , with recent memories of the looting and disorder which had accompanied the police strike of 1919 in Liverpool . |
| 7 | I 'm sure he 's in there somewhere , surrounded by a quite unfair bevy of beauties . |
| 8 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 9 | For example , Ralls ( 1977 ) argues that ‘ the intensity of intrasexual selection in a species should be proportional to the ratio of the lifetime number of offspring sired by a highly successful male compared to the number born by a highly successful female in her lifetime ’ while Payne ( 1979 ) suggests that the extent to which variance in breeding success differs between the sexes is important . |
| 10 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 11 | On his first night , he is homosexually attacked by a mentally handicapped dwarf , and there then follows a parade of evils which serve to emphasise the horrors of life in a mental hospital — attacks on patients by the staff , general squalor , lack of hygiene and overcrowding ; essentially harrowing and horrific . |
| 12 | I 've managed to arrange to meet her and talk to her and this should take place tomorrow ( though it 's being organised by a very unreliable man , one of the expatriate drunks that live here ) . |
| 13 | The delicatessen was owned by a most enterprising Indian who opened at all the times when other places were shut . |
| 14 | The police know that ’ hotting ’ , ram-raiding , and related offences are committed by a comparatively small number of people , many of whom are persistent young criminals . |
| 15 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 16 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 17 | Little short of a revolution has taken place inside the cabin , with the traditional Rolls/Bentley facia being superseded by a more modern arrangement siting the bulk of the instruments directly in front of the driver . |
| 18 | Thus the factors of soil formation as propounded by Jenny ( 1941 ) was superseded by a more process-based vision of the soil profile as based upon additions , subtractions , translocations and transformation of constituents ( Simonson , 1959 ) . |
| 19 | For them , the ‘ golden age ’ of journalism was being superseded by a more questionable set of practices and principles . |
| 20 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 21 | Perhaps more worrying for the Government is the attitude of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , who was reported by a most reliable gossip columnist called Peterborough in that impeccably Conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph as saying that it would have been better if there had been no deal at all . |
| 22 | However , that property could have defects which could only be identified and reported by a more detailed survey . |
| 23 | Now , if the depression has been preceded by a particularly deep-going crisis , equilibrium may be established at such a low level of activity that the volume of fixed capital currently being produced may well be considerably smaller than that which would allow for the time-proportional replacement of fixed capital at the previous average rate . |
| 24 | As this suggested that it might also be a cause of cancer in man , it was promptly withdrawn , to be succeeded by a more acceptable agent , propranolol . |
| 25 | The phase winding is excited whenever its switching transistor is saturated by a sufficiently high base current . |
| 26 | Warily , it approached by a more circuitous route , stopping to watch the dark shape , trying to scent the aroma of the human on the crisp , dawn air . |
| 27 | The history of the SI is in some ways a struggle for recognition ( despite Debord 's evasions ) sustained by a radically negative critique which ultimately failed to find a middle way between Hegelian metaphysics and the dynamics of political organisation in the pursuit of its utopian objectives . |
| 28 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 29 | never , no , and that is that it is constrained by a very tight village envelope which has actually just been defined and statutorily approved as an alteration to the rural areas local plan erm , and th the effect of that village envelope is to limit the possible amount of development to I would say no more than three or four hundred house . |
| 30 | Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity . |