Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain or America or France history making is dominated by professional historians organized in universities and institutes ; their institutional loyalties are cross-cut by intellectual allegiances to schools of interpretation and to further specializations by place and by time . |
| 2 | However , since they are usually areas of low vegetation dominated by rough grasses frequently with bracken ( Pteridium aquilinum ) , gorse ( Ulex sp. ) , and scattered trees , in ornithological terms it is convenient to consider the two together . |
| 3 | Governors should control the money with this end in view and must not allow their thinking to become dominated by financial concerns . |
| 4 | The elections established a new local government structure with considerably enhanced powers in place of local councils still dominated by former communists . |
| 5 | A re-draft , tabled for the December session by a constitutional commission dominated by former communists , had envisaged parliament having the right to form the Cabinet and shape policy , shifting the balance of power away from the President . |
| 6 | As in many English country house sales , the bidding was dominated by private buyers prepared to bid uncommercially high prices for silver which , although good quality and of eighteenth-century date , had been well used ( up to his death in 1990 , the late Fürst lived like a fairy tale prince ) , for lavish nineteenth-century jewellery and bibelots like snuff boxes and jewelled ostrich feather fans . |
| 7 | The London market may be seen to be increasingly dominated by eight firms , five of whom are true international firms — owning and controlling a wide network of offices worldwide — and three local firms . |
| 8 | Consequently , the mechanical behaviour is dominated by viscoelastic phenomena , in contrast to materials such as metal and glass where atomic adjustments under stress are more localized and limited . |
| 9 | In this period , against the background of a developing world market , within a ‘ global economy ’ dominated by multinational corporations , the existing monopolistic cultural formation both confirms itself and , at another level , becomes noticeably fissured , through the development of an assortment of transient subcultures . |
| 10 | He indicates that , with the control of premature mortality largely the result of reducing mortality from infectious diseases , the pattern of population morbidity will be dominated by chronic diseases . |
| 11 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 12 | Egypt was to become shaped and then dominated by European developments of both a political and economic character . |
| 13 | Other equally influential modern forms of historiography have tended to develop still further this European ethnocentrism , with other societies viewed either as the passive victims of the European search for markets ( e.g. Wallerstein 1979 ) , so that the rest of the world is seen as peripheral to a West-European core , or else as active players in what is still , however , a story dominated by European desires ( e.g. Wolf 1982 ) . |
| 14 | In areas dominated by Quaternary deposits emphasis in research in the late 1950s and subsequently was naturally directed towards the interpretation of the stages and nature of Quaternary landscape change , and this involved the inception of new conceptual models of glacial landform development well exemplified by the way in which J.B. Sissons of the University of Edinburgh developed a theme in many research papers of the interpretation of patterns of deglaciation involving stagnant as well as active ice ( Sissons , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 16 | During his visit Kaifu held extensive talks with his Chinese counterpart , Li Peng , the talks were dominated by international issues , especially arms control . |
| 17 | The examples of Sugar Ray Robinson , Henry Armstrong and Ike Williams attest to this and heavyweight boxing was dominated by black boxers almost totally from 1937 . |
| 18 | Yesterday 's debate was dominated by black sections supporters who derided the compromise notion of a mixed-race ‘ black and white minstrels ’ society . |
| 19 | During June 1991 Walesa came into conflict over the new electoral law with the Sejm , which was still dominated by ex-communist deputies ( in the 1989 elections 65 per cent of seats had been guaranteed to PUWP ( communist ) members — see p. 36723 ) . |
| 20 | The third part is dominated by two chapters on perception , which perhaps constitute the centre of the book . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So the non-communist world came to be dominated by two payments systems , the dollar area and the EPU , each involving multilateral payments arrangements . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The early search firms were dominated by two types of individuals . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ( 1983 ) , who used partial data ( unemployment registers classified by last employment ) for the period 1979–82 to conclude that the regional north/south split was as important as the urban/rural split , and that future growth would probably be dominated by free-standing towns in the ‘ sun-belt ’ of the southeast . |
| 29 | In a business still dominated by male managers , her management strengths are not obvious , but none the less stunningly effective . |
| 30 | With pantomime a dwindling art-form ( dominated by superannuated sportsmen and holidaying soap-stars ) , David Cregan and Philip Hedley usually nod towards traditional story-telling . |