Example sentences of "[verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 32 | Easily Accessible : Southwell is dominated by the impressive Norman Minster ( incidentally the most rural minster in Great Britain ) and is a quiet , pretty town , famous for the beautiful foliage carvings in the Chapter House . |
| 33 | The steeply climbing road very soon affords views over Thun , dominated by the impressive , massive square keep with corner turrets of the castle built by the Zahringen Dukes from 1191 , with the Stockhorn mountain ( 2,190m , 7,183ft ) forming a backdrop across the wide valley . |
| 34 | This part of the record business , getting the records to the consumers , had been even more strongly dominated by the major companies than had the origin of recordings . |
| 35 | In a society so deeply divided by class ( and gender and race ) inequalities , and increasingly dominated by the privatised technological culture of late capitalism , the social purpose orientation alone is now inadequate , however admirable it may have been in the past . |
| 36 | In his speech to the inaugural session , dominated by the economic implications of the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37694-97 ] , Camdessus urged the richer countries to assist those unable to " cope with the additional burden " of rising oil prices and the loss of earnings from worker remittances . |
| 37 | Traditionally , or at least since Marx , socialist thought has been dominated by the economic problems posed by capitalism , poverty , mass unemployment , squalor , instability and even the possibility of the collapse of the whole system … |
| 38 | It is dominated by the imposing Citadelle de Vauban , constructed in 1549 to defend the island against invaders . |
| 39 | For , if ( x 1 , … , x n ) were optimal and dominated by the feasible ( in VMP ) solution ( x 1 , … , x n ) , then so that ( x 1 , … , x n ) is also feasible in LP* ( x 1 , … , x n ) . |
| 40 | Politically , the area was dominated by the Labour Party . |
| 41 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |
| 42 | Of the partisan councils , most are dominated by the Labour Party with some nationalist presence on occasion . |
| 43 | In a campaign dominated by the current economic crisis Vargas Llosa , long the pre-poll favourite , had called for " a clear mandate " to allow him to introduce radical economic measures to tackle recession and inflation ( then running at 30 per cent per month ) . |
| 44 | They support their conjecture that writing enables interpersonal meanings to be dominated by the logical functions of language , for instance , by citing the Royal Society of London . |
| 45 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 46 | Election campaigns are short , sharp , and dominated by the political parties . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Political activity mirrors that on the US mainland , and is therefore dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party . |
| 49 | Political activity mirrors that on the US mainland , and is therefore dominated by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party . |
| 50 | The scenery is dramatic — a breathtaking mixture of strange volcanic deserts and lush vegetation — a landscape dominated by the snow-capped peak of a dormant volcano , Mount Teide . |
| 51 | Last October the Kelantanese elected a state government dominated by the Parti Islam se-Malaysia ( PAS ) , which opposes the country 's ruling United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO ) and has promised to govern according to the principles of Islam . |
| 52 | It is a world of compacts and bargains , of the control of present and future by ritual , a world dominated by the absolute power of words once spoken to bring order to the world of actions and social relations , an order which needs other words to dispel . |
| 53 | Antiphonal choirs of rosewood and mahogany gleamed darkly in rooms dominated by the rich pedal-tones of velvet curtains and hand-printed wallpaper . |
| 54 | The King 's bedroom is dominated by the eighteenth-century state bed . |
| 55 | With a low-coupon bond , the present value will be dominated by the terminal payment and the annuity curve will lie close to the spot curve ; with a high-coupon bond , the two curves will be further apart . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | They are always dominated by the strong . |
| 58 | Where stone foundations are normal , as at Catterick and Hibaldstow , regional variations reflect local sources : flint and chalk in areas dominated by the geological presence of chalk , limestones and sandstones in the area of the Jurassic ridge and granites and slates beyond . |
| 59 | His speeches were , of course , dominated by the great foreign political issues of the year , but there can be no doubt that Hitler was deliberately steering clear of the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and that there was a continued conscious attempt to dissociate his public image from the seamier side of anti-Semitism visible in the renewed growing violence of Party activists . |
| 60 | Louis , count of Flanders , was pro-French ; his subjects , however , dominated by the great cloth-weaving towns of Bruges , Ghent , and Ypres were more likely to turn to England , the source of the wool upon which their industry and wealth depended . |