Example sentences of "[verb] by the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |
| 2 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 3 | ‘ His ’ life ( these people are still mainly male ) and that of his family are largely dominated by the large company in which he spends most of his working life . |
| 4 | An underground company that is n't dominated by the grey men in suits . |
| 5 | An Imperial triumph : the Emperor surrounded by the visiting sovereigns in 1867 . |
| 6 | An Imperial triumph : the Emperor surrounded by the visiting sovereigns in 1867 . |
| 7 | The system of capital allowances is the system of depreciation permitted by the Inland Revenue in arriving at taxable earnings . |
| 8 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 9 | This is illustrated by figures 5.10 and 5.11 which show the percentage of the seats in each house of the various State Legislatures won by the Democratic Party in 1972–6 . |
| 10 | It is likely also that works like Aristotle 's Masterpiece , which went through at least 25 editions between 1684 and 1930 , were a common form for the distribution of sexual knowledge , until attacked by the medical profession in the 1930s . |
| 11 | That was the area that was attacked by the Tory Government in their valuations and that is why we had the revolt . |
| 12 | Indeed the so-called ‘ Revolution Bill ’ , the Umsturzvorlage proposed by the German government in 1894 to ward off the threat of revolution , made criticism of the family as an institution punishable by drastic penalties . |
| 13 | Mobutu had intended that the Assembly , made up largely of members of his Mouvement populaire de la révolution ( MPR ) , should draft an alternative constitution to that proposed by the national conference in September [ see p. 39082-83 ] . |
| 14 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |
| 15 | Laura had been shattered by the swift deterioration in her father 's mental health , and to hear the official diagnosis from their family doctor . |
| 16 | They called this double yoked model " the Beau Ideal " and suggested that it was epitomised by the Victorian villa in a garden suburb . |
| 17 | Most of the trade is passers-by , but people are attracted by the comprehensive display in what was an empty shop site , at the station entrance , which London Transport has allowed the branch to erect . |
| 18 | Recent advances in NMR applications to porous media organised by the Collaborative Project in Magnetic Resonance , will be held at the University of Kent on 14–16 April 1992 . |
| 19 | The conference was organised by The Northern Echo in conjunction with chartered accountants KPMG Peat Marwick . |
| 20 | ‘ You can be sure that the Greeks have been trying to organise something like this since ‘ The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent ’ was such a success in America ’ , he added , referring to a travelling exhibition of objects from Turkish collections , organised by the National Gallery in 1987 . |
| 21 | The boundary is located by the sharp change in n∼ and its movement is followed as a function of time using one or other of the optical methods available . |
| 22 | The conflict centred upon the Northern Territories , four islands ( known in the Soviet Union as the Kuriles ) which lay off the coast of Hokkaido , and which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 . |
| 23 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
| 24 | It also seems somewhat inevitable that the collective impression of the work of the women artists included , Janine Antoni , Rachel Evans , Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith , would have to be a suitably sour comment on the degraded position occupied by the female body in popular culture . |
| 25 | The whole of the property had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 , and the land occupied by the three houses in Foster Lane was either soon after or by the early nineteenth century incorporated in the Goldsmiths ' Hall . |
| 26 | It was now known that the body of the Professor who specialised in nuclear physics had been claimed by the Iraqi Embassy in Rome . |
| 27 | In slave societies , though , labour power is one of the means of production since the workforce is actually owned by the social group in power . |
| 28 | She has used the many traditional farms and farm buildings owned by the National Trust in the region to give a reflection of everyday life over the past three centuries . |
| 29 | The shameful outrage committed by the German students in the crypt of San Esteban inevitably was echoed in the conclusion of the poem . |
| 30 | Mr Havel 's house was continously monitored from a nearby tower of the Manes gallery in central Prague , and cameras were installed by the secret police in other streets where dissidents lived . |