Example sentences of "[verb] by two [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The third part is dominated by two chapters on perception , which perhaps constitute the centre of the book . |
2 | Trade in the metals — which have applications ranging from making TV sets to catalysts-is dominated by two companies , Rhone Poulenc of France and Molycorp of the US . |
3 | So the non-communist world came to be dominated by two payments systems , the dollar area and the EPU , each involving multilateral payments arrangements . |
4 | Socially and demographically the period has been dominated by two factors — the fall in the size of families and the increase in the expectation of survival to retirement , the effects of which are still far from having exhausted themselves . |
5 | The early search firms were dominated by two types of individuals . |
6 | We are now back where we were in Elizabeth I 's days : a middle power , making our way in a world dominated by two superpowers , and doing so through intuitive manipulation of balances of power , as we have always done over the centuries . |
7 | In the agrarian south and east of the continent , the character of society was dominated by two classes of very different size : a body of wealthy landowners , still often enjoying the prestige and privilege and sometimes the legal and noble status of its feudal forebears , and a huge mass of subordinate peasants , some of whom might be freeholders , but by and large economically dependent on the landowners . |
8 | It is all too easy for accounts in this period to be dominated by two issues — the transfer of the British commitment in Greece to the United States in February–March 1947 ( followed by the formulation of the Truman Doctrine ) , and the angry Anglo-American exchanges over Palestine and the creation of Israel . |
9 | The three remaining seats were won by two representatives of the Turkish Moslem minority in Thrace ( a gain of one ) , and one environmentalist candidate . |
10 | Town won by two goals to one . |
11 | Less well run events rely upon the memories of the refereeing panel to screen out those who have won by two disqualifications . |
12 | Four seats were won by two parties closely aligned with the NLD , the United Nationalities League for Democracy ( UNLD ) won 65 seats and the remaining seats were won by smaller parties or independent candidates . |
13 | ‘ The next year the Japanese won by two miles . |
14 | After this timewasting procedure , George Shackel related how he and his manservant had been attacked by two labourers in Kings Meadow . |
15 | A YOUNG doctor was attacked by two youths as he walked his dogs on a Middlesbrough housing estate . |
16 | John McBride , who is partially deaf , was attacked by two youths when only yards from his home in Arden , Glasgow . |
17 | If the adventurer is stupid enough to continue , he will be attacked by two Ghosts ; there will be two Ghosts for each adventurer taking part in the looting . |
18 | A TAXI ride home ended in violence when a man was attacked by two people with whom he shared the cab , a court heard . |
19 | At midnight on the first Saturday in August , Inspector Charles Binfield , who was in charge of the paying-in office at Mitcham Road depôt , was attacked by two men and knocked unconscious . |
20 | Adrian Stayte , was attacked by two men on his early morning milkround last month . |
21 | Adrian Stayte , was attacked by two men on his early morning milkround last month . |
22 | A young mother is attacked by two men |
23 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
24 | The 6ft 5ins former Irish forward was attacked by two men wielding iron bars near Heuston railway station last night . |
25 | In one incident a student was attacked by two men and then forced at gunpoint to hand over his £250 mountain bike . |
26 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
27 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
28 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
29 | The new council tax would ( i ) be introduced from April 1993 ; ( ii ) reflect the capital value of a property occupied by two adults , with a 25 per cent discount for single people ; and ( iii ) be calculated from property values in seven bands . |
30 | That room is occupied by two people . ’ |