Example sentences of "[verb] by a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of you who trained under a very autocratic system , dominated by a strictly imposed hierarchy where nurses came somewhere close to the bottom of the pyramid , are likely to find the concept of accountability quite daunting . |
| 2 | The 1984 general election [ see pp. 33327-28 ] had been dominated by a hastily assembled NNP coalition , from which the current NDC , TNP and NNP originated . |
| 3 | The southern authority area is dominated by a heavily populated conurbation . |
| 4 | As a child , she had been dominated by a slightly older brother . |
| 5 | This sector continues to be dominated by a largely white farming community , with the addition of members of the new black elite . |
| 6 | By implication , the whole thrust of post-war economic policy had been misguided , dominated by a totally unrealistic fear of a return to the 1930s . |
| 7 | The form of slave production and exploitation and subsequent colonial development of the West Indies has also ensured for most of the islands a fate similar to that of many modern African states : a form of ‘ peripheral ’ development in which individual economies are dominated by a very small number of cash crops , often the same as those cultivated under the original system of slavery , the income from which is dependent on world commodity prices subject to considerable fluctuation and open to manipulation by metropolitan powers ( Beckford , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | The event opens with some of his more recent ‘ topiary ’ interpretations of the Minster , where the whole is dominated by a very powerful interpretation of the Crucifixion that owes much to Matthias Grunewald ( 1475/801528 ) the Mathis der Maler of Hindemith 's opera . |
| 9 | The formalities were completed sitting on a makeshift seat of boxes surrounded by a rather bedraggled crowd of schoolboys . |
| 10 | In the Chief Constable 's view the use of force was ‘ fully justified ’ , believing himself surrounded by a criminally hostile population , with recent memories of the looting and disorder which had accompanied the police strike of 1919 in Liverpool . |
| 11 | I 'm sure he 's in there somewhere , surrounded by a quite unfair bevy of beauties . |
| 12 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 13 | Stewart slotted in well in his first full game and Liverpool should have won by a much bigger margin . |
| 14 | Against Tipperary , Galway showed superb resilience and determination , quenching the fire and verve of Babs ' Keating 's side to such an extent that they could and should have won by a much greater margin . |
| 15 | For example , Ralls ( 1977 ) argues that ‘ the intensity of intrasexual selection in a species should be proportional to the ratio of the lifetime number of offspring sired by a highly successful male compared to the number born by a highly successful female in her lifetime ’ while Payne ( 1979 ) suggests that the extent to which variance in breeding success differs between the sexes is important . |
| 16 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 17 | On his first night , he is homosexually attacked by a mentally handicapped dwarf , and there then follows a parade of evils which serve to emphasise the horrors of life in a mental hospital — attacks on patients by the staff , general squalor , lack of hygiene and overcrowding ; essentially harrowing and horrific . |
| 18 | I 've managed to arrange to meet her and talk to her and this should take place tomorrow ( though it 's being organised by a very unreliable man , one of the expatriate drunks that live here ) . |
| 19 | We might expect the throne for some generations to be occupied by a more or less yellow king ; but can any one believe that the whole island will gradually acquire a white , or even a yellow population , or that the islanders would acquire the energy , courage , ingenuity , patience , self-control , endurance , in virtue of which qualities our hero killed so many of their ancestors , and begot so many children ; these qualities , in fact , which the struggle for existence would select , if it could select anything ? |
| 20 | The site of Stanley Mill was formerly occupied by a much smaller structure , recorded in 1560 as Giles Mill at ‘ Ryeford in King 's Stanley ’ . |
| 21 | Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a previously unknown right-wing group , the National Resistance Front ( FAN ) , who accused Leigh of having betrayed the " ideals " of the 1973 military coup . |
| 22 | The delicatessen was owned by a most enterprising Indian who opened at all the times when other places were shut . |
| 23 | The Primary Education Improvement Project in Northern Nigeria has produced a programme for the lower classes where more formal subject-based lessons were planned to cover about half the teaching time , but complemented by a carefully planned activities programme based on group work . |
| 24 | The police know that ’ hotting ’ , ram-raiding , and related offences are committed by a comparatively small number of people , many of whom are persistent young criminals . |
| 25 | Five licences were granted at one session at Singleton ; three related to tiny parcels , while a whole virgate was let by a recently admitted tenant to his brother , presumably the elder , the younger having inherited under the custom of borough English , and probably under age . |
| 26 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 27 | Little short of a revolution has taken place inside the cabin , with the traditional Rolls/Bentley facia being superseded by a more modern arrangement siting the bulk of the instruments directly in front of the driver . |
| 28 | For them , the ‘ golden age ’ of journalism was being superseded by a more questionable set of practices and principles . |
| 29 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 30 | Thus the factors of soil formation as propounded by Jenny ( 1941 ) was superseded by a more process-based vision of the soil profile as based upon additions , subtractions , translocations and transformation of constituents ( Simonson , 1959 ) . |