Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its tragic grandeur it seems to forestall by a century some of the finest thoughts of Sibelius . ) |
| 2 | In order to appreciate the significance of Dicey 's views on democracy we should recall , in particular , the fact that political opinion during the last decades of the nineteenth century was dominated by a concern with the rise of democracy . |
| 3 | Throughout Edward 's reign papal policy towards England was dominated by a concern for peace within the realm . |
| 4 | The architect or the engineer working within the civil service may believe this to be unnecessary red tape and their culture may be dominated by a concern to do the best possible job conforming to the highest professional standards . |
| 5 | In the centre of the village was the square , dominated by a portrait of the Chairman . |
| 6 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 7 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 8 | In the early years of this century its study was dominated by a man of great learning and erudition , Sir George Macdonald , who had conducted his own excavations . |
| 9 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 10 | It was dominated by a century from Richards , which on the fourth morning he took in explosive style to 182 not out when Lloyd declared on 379 for 7 . |
| 11 | Large spacious offices dominated by a Chesterfield reputedly used by the Rolling Stones singer and Marianne Faithful for amorous interludes attracted the traditional crowd of hangers-on , plus the few who came into work . |
| 12 | In the most extreme cases this has meant that previously small , socially closely knit occupational communities , dominated by a squirearchy , have totally disappeared , or else survive only partly as encapsulated communities . |
| 13 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 14 | The façade is dominated by a statue of the Virgin , but the best feature is the courtyard , still flanked by sections of the original convent . |
| 15 | The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard . |
| 16 | The prospect of the hill above their homes being dominated by a 100ft tower so appauled local people , the first ever public planning inquiry was convened . |
| 17 | The first concerns the structure and organisation of agricultural edge-tool manufacturing — its transition from a workshop trade to a factory-based industry dominated by a hierarchy of large integrated firms and , after 1920 , following the collapse of its traditional markets , irreversible decline . |
| 18 | A similar situation exists in some Latin American countries — for example , in Brazil , Argentina and Chile — where industrialization is well advanced and political life is now dominated by a struggle between classes , the outcome of which will decide whether their regimes remain autocratic , sometimes regressing into military and repressive forms , or become more democratic and eventually social democratic . |
| 19 | I thought what a snakepit my family was ; a snakepit dominated by a genius who knew how to create any illusion — even love . |
| 20 | All around its industrial heritage can be seen , in the lead mining centre at the Dale Killhope Wheel , Britain 's finest lead mining site , which is dominated by a 30ft water wheel . |
| 21 | Metropolitan clusters were clearly in evidence with their own internal dynamics of change dominated by a trend to loosen and shed population from the core to the periphery . |
| 22 | This , everyone had agreed two years back , was because women were so used to being in groups dominated by a minority of articulate men ( all groups — social , work , political ) that it was important they ( we ) should be able to discover and articulate our own understanding of all the minute day-by-day ways in which we were oppressed , and relate these to a developing understanding of the ways women were oppressed in society generally . |
| 23 | The legislature was condemned as unrepresentative , as an institution dominated by a minority of rural and small town based conservatives , usually from the South , out of touch with the needs of the majority , located largely outside the South and living mainly in urban areas . |
| 24 | By midday on Friday , the elegant facade of their first-floor flat was dominated by a banner bearing the message : moral — get stuffed boyo . |
| 25 | The R-Series is also supported by a wide range of applications , and the MIPS market is a level playing field , not dominated by a Sun Microsystems . |
| 26 | Product-costing is still too heavily dominated by a concept of variable costs which is very short-term and defined solely in respect of changing volume of output . |
| 27 | Yet the centre of the mosaic is now dominated by a roundel ( the contents of which have not survived ) , and the canthari , here , are wide at the base and curve , evenly , up to the rim . |
| 28 | Her own stand is dominated by a burst of swansdown in shades of pink ranging from cerise to baby blush . |
| 29 | Schizophrenia is primarily a thought disorder , whereas depression is dominated by a mood disorder . |
| 30 | Instead , the emphasis is on efficiency rather than excitement , with a colour scheme dominated by a variety of blacks and greys . |