Example sentences of "came to dominate the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silver denarius was not established on a permanent footing until the Second Pubic War ( fig.39 : c , d ) , and gold only came to dominate the imperial coinage and advertise the power and majesty of Rome with the extension of the Empire ( fig.39 : e , f ) . |
| 2 | That was how the Gens Redburna came to dominate the imperial economy . |
| 3 | It was they who , at the turn of the century , founded the socialist parties which came to dominate the political scene in 1917 . |
| 4 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 5 | Alternatively , from the mid-1970s , a new libertarian strand of thinking came to dominate the Conservative party . |
| 6 | The marsupials came to dominate the Australian story and the placentals the Old World , while the two groups played important roles alongside each other in South America . |
| 7 | It meant also that the consideration which more and more came to dominate the Dual Monarchy 's foreign policy was the need to check Russian influence over the Slavs of the Balkans . |
| 8 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 9 | Its modern quays were well suited to accommodate the new large ships , known as cogs , which in the course of the second half of the twelfth century came to dominate the maritime trade of the Baltic , North Sea and Channel coasts . |