Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q2 's accommodation is dominated by a forward-facing chart table just abaft the Proctor mast . |
| 2 | A succession of marquees led to the fairground complex , dominated by a great ferris wheel . |
| 3 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 4 | Chamber 7e is dominated by a man-size iron cage which hangs from a ceiling hook . |
| 5 | A chamberlain showed them to their seats just beneath the high table , which was dominated by a pearl-encrusted silver salt cellar . |
| 6 | Its walls are banked head-high with electronic equipment , dominated by a single computer screen . |
| 7 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 8 | Like a number of other cultural forms , popular music in the west is dominated by a commercial market system , which itself is dominated by a handful of transnational companies . |
| 9 | The kitchen is dominated by a huge pine dresser and pine cupboards . |
| 10 | Architecturally , as in other ways , this pleasing street scene was dominated by an elegant seven-bay house in red Quantock sandstone . |
| 11 | Warlords operated in the west , and the east was dominated by an independent anarchist force , the green armies of Makhno . |
| 12 | Torri del Benaco meanwhile , is another charming village , dominated by the 13th century castle of the Scaligiers . |
| 13 | This is no mean achievement in a region which is dominated by the Islamic Sharia law and where nomadic men feel very threatened when their wives and daughters go to school . |
| 14 | The King 's bedroom is dominated by the eighteenth-century state bed . |
| 15 | Areas with a relatively high density of children also seemed to have a higher incidence ( table V ) , but a combined analysis was dominated by the recent oil impact measure . |
| 16 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 17 | This showed the use of 25,771 items , a number dominated by the larger-scale Ordnance Survey mapping of the period 1850–1939 . |
| 18 | The main room too , painted a sea-green which Virginia feared the Charlestonians would ridicule , is dominated by the painted dining table and chairs decorated by Vanessa with her distinctively organic circles , webs and waves . |
| 19 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |
| 20 | A city of 3.2 million people , Rangoon is surrounded on three sides by water and dominated by the glistening gold stupa of the Shwedagon . |
| 21 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 22 | By contrast , the CEGB saw this as another opportunity to join the worldwide water-cooled club , now dominated by the Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 23 | yes , I think , I think their view is dominated by the old group selectionist or point that women are there to do their duty |
| 24 | On March 30 a group of 14 Kurdish deputies resigned from the Social Democratic Popular Party ( SHP ) , which was junior partner in the governing coalition dominated by the True Path Party ( DYP ) . |
| 25 | The site of the ‘ 1066 ’ Battle of Hastings , this charming medieval town which is dominated by the magnificent Battle Abbey . |
| 26 | Schaffhausen is dominated by the sixteenth-century Munol fortress , perched on top of a hillock and towering over half-timbered houses sleeping by the water . |
| 27 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 28 | On the east side was a small playground , surrounded by a low brick wall . |
| 29 | A classical palace was created lying athwart Park and Fourth Avenues , surrounded by a raised roadway offering access to the wheeled traffic which would soon pitch the railways into dramatic decline . |
| 30 | The swimming pool is also surrounded by a great sun terrace . |