Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spot commands one of earth 's most splendid prospects with the city 's roofs , towers , flags and islets panoramically dominated by the red-brick campanile of St bark 's , the Basilica 's bulbous domes and the pinkish mass of the Doge 's Palace . |
| 2 | I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army . |
| 3 | I left these agonizing streets of beggars behind and entered the Plaza Mayor , a magnificent example of eighteenth-century Spanish baroque , dominated by the superb façade of the Churrigueresque Town Hail or Ayuntamiento . |
| 4 | One of the greatest centres of renaissance art , Raphael and Brumante were born here and it is surrounded by massive ramparts , set amid rolling hills and dominated by the superb 15th century Palazzo Ducale . |
| 5 | To Maggie , though , the city was dominated by the superb cathedral and the rocky slopes of the mountains . |
| 6 | Their perfectly logical conclusions are that the Falange and its predecessor the JONS were the only unambiguously fascist organizations in pre-Civil War Spain ; that the CEDA in particular did not deserve the epithet ‘ fascist ’ ; that after a sudden expansion during 1936 the Falange was politically neutered in April 1937 through its enforced merger with Carlism and the Catholic right ; and that the subsequent regime , utterly dominated by the non-Falangist Franco , was therefore not fascist — whatever else it may have been . |
| 7 | In the domestic sphere 1990 was dominated by the protracted dispute over the budget between Bush and the Democrat majority in Congress [ see below ] and by a series of financial and political scandals . |
| 8 | The proceedings were dominated by the developing study skills programme within the school , and it was this which the evaluators were assured was the major thrust of the school 's post-project library development . |
| 9 | Principal developments in Somalia from mid-1989 [ see p. 36757 for events to that date ] continued to be dominated by the civil war , the regime 's attempts to establish some dialogue with opposition forces on its own terms , and allegations of human rights abuses [ see pp. 36806 ; 37113-14 ; 37174 ] . |
| 10 | A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations . |
| 11 | He was still surrounded by woman , of course , mostly fat ones receiving Mud 's beauty treatment and so his early life was dominated by the female presence rather than the male which may help explain his future attitude to women for which flocks of emerging feminists , and a few of his friends , would berate him . |
| 12 | At a time when the party leadership was dominated by the sectarian views of Barbe and Celor , such reticence can not simply be explained by a sense of personal solidarity on the part of Thorez , and especially Vaillant-Couturier , for Barbusse . |
| 13 | The surrounding mountains are dominated by the towering Watzman Mountain and the magical Königssee Lake is just over two miles away . |
| 14 | The whole valley was dominated by the towering massive craggy bulk of Hanuman Tibba ( 5,928m ) . |
| 15 | IT IS a shame that discussion of the Environmental Protection Bill will be dominated by the ill-judged decision to dismember the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 16 | Most of these are also found in the upper canopy , although that is dominated by the wide-ranging bee , Apis dorsata , with Xylocopa bees also conspicuous . |
| 17 | White water-lily community ( Nymphaea alba ) in more oligotrophic lochs and lochans , dominated by the floating leaves of Nymphaea alba . |
| 18 | He became an alienated reactionary for whom the trauma of the First World War was reinforced by the memory of the fascist God that failed , and his thought became increasingly dominated by the negative obsession of the conspiracy theory of history . |
| 19 | Since the market for this metal is dominated by the automotive industry there was an inevitable decline in price which ended the year at $1,350 per ounce , over 55% down from the year 's high point . |
| 20 | The curriculum of the last two years of primary school is inevitably dominated by the final public examinations a child takes . |
| 21 | Self-assertive and uncompromising , Malins led a protest against the racial policies of the Good Templars in the American South , which culminated in a secessionist IOGT of the world , dominated by the grand lodges of England and Scotland , during 1876–87 . |
| 22 | Secondary trading in the government bond market is dominated by the gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) of which at the time of writing there are eighteen . |
| 23 | The first three years of de Gaulle 's presidency were dominated by the Algerian war . |
| 24 | In 1917 the socialist parties , created but no longer dominated by the revolutionary intelligentsia , commanded the support of the vast majority of both workers and peasants . |
| 25 | In Madeira the local branch of it is dominated by the charismatic figure of Dr Alberto João Jardim and at any election , national or local , the party can count on between sixty-five and seventy per cent of the votes cast in the island . |
| 26 | This is no mean achievement in a region which is dominated by the Islamic Sharia law and where nomadic men feel very threatened when their wives and daughters go to school . |
| 27 | Korn/Ferry , whose world fee income achieved a fivefold increase between 1977 and 1986 , and is confidently expected to pass the $100m. mark by the 1990s , is sometimes criticised in the USA for being dominated by the central management , for its ‘ big factory ’ image where the seniors do the selling and the juniors do the work , and it has also suffered much at the pen of headhunting newshound Jim Kennedy , who produces Executive Recruiter News . |
| 28 | It is an epic dominated by the central figure of Moses . |
| 29 | The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church . |
| 30 | Above : Finningley 's show was dominated by the Russian Knights Su-27 Flanker team , who provided a four-ship and singleton routine . |