Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The show was dominated by painting with issued-based and figurative work featuring prominently . |
| 2 | The introduction of new products , continuous improvements in productivity , and customer service and cost reduction initiatives have all helped to sustain performance in a year dominated by recession in our principal markets around the world . |
| 3 | We have , in this simple example , a paradigm case of a legislative judgment dominated by consistency in strategy . |
| 4 | She takes a hard look at the way women present their bodies , their image and how this is dominated by notions of contemporary beauty . |
| 5 | Barro ( 1977a , fn.9 ) acknowledges this criticism but argues that the principal movements in FEDV , which are dominated by changes in wartime activity , would be known to agents in advance . |
| 6 | The later stages of evolution are dominated by changes in the pattern of fluctuation with respect to time — from the very regular periodicity considered above towards the irregular fluctuations characteristic of turbulence . |
| 7 | Suddenly , she felt the need to confide , to be able to tell some other person that when she was not actually working , her mind and heart were dominated by thoughts of Harry . |
| 8 | Its accounts of anorexia , for instance , are dominated by descriptions of how dominant discourses of femininity link a narrowly defined physical attractiveness to female sexuality and success . |
| 9 | Although the primary purpose of the meeting was to initiate a follow-up conference on the future role of the CSCE , the meeting was dominated by discussions on the resolution of the conflict in Nagorny-Karabakh [ see pp. 38827-28 ] . |
| 10 | Both meetings had been dominated by calls from LDC representatives who urged that countries in the LDC category be given special treatment , including the writing-off of all outstanding debt [ for inclusion of Namibia in the list of LDCs see p. 38263 ] . |
| 11 | By 1985 the total employment of foreign-owned plants had fallen to 677,100 , dominated by ownership in the USA ( 416,300 ) and the EC ( 95,100 ) ; by mechanical engineering and vehicles ( 205,600 ) ; and by the South East ( 240,200 ) . |
| 12 | The client 's discourse was dominated by conceptions of kin-based relationships ; the lawyer 's discourse was dominated by conceptions of relations involving ownership potentialities and capacities . |
| 13 | The client 's discourse was dominated by conceptions of kin-based relationships ; the lawyer 's discourse was dominated by conceptions of relations involving ownership potentialities and capacities . |
| 14 | The role of " burden-sharing " among NATO allies in terms of costs and responsibilities , an issue which developed further during June-December 1989 , was dominated by consideration of the future level of US forces stationed in Western Europe , principally in West Germany . |
| 15 | The session appeared to be dominated by consideration of economic problems in particular . |
| 16 | He admitted the award now in its eighth year tended to be dominated by pubs in the North . |
| 17 | To say that Tit for Tat , say , is an ESS , would be to say that Tit for Tat does well in a climate dominated by Tit for Tat . |
| 18 | In a climate entirely dominated by Tit for Tat , Suspicious Tit for Tat does not prosper , because its initial defection triggers an unbroken run of mutual recrimination . |
| 19 | However , the search for methods of countering the national economic and military ‘ deterioration ’ after the Boer War was dominated by discussion of methods of improving the numbers and environment of the masses rather than of weeding out the unfit . |
| 20 | Wales have not yet been regularly dominated by England in the way that France and Ireland have been recently . |
| 21 | He took the award from a field dominated by studies of early 19th century poets . |
| 22 | In spite of the increasing diversity of their work on women 's experiences with children , for instance , this work remains dominated by studies of mother-child relations and the problems they encounter . |
| 23 | If the population already happens to be dominated by genes for pathway 1 , selection will favour other genes for pathway 1 , and penalize genes for pathway 2 . |
| 24 | The occult section was dominated by works on numerology . |
| 25 | Soon the Klausenpass hotel is reached and within another kilometre the pass summit of 1,948m ( 6,389ft ) , dominated by mountains on both sides . |
| 26 | In the late 1970s , since its leadership was no longer dominated by members of the Communist Party , it was no longer regarded as subversive , but merely as a ‘ Communist penetrated organisation ’ . |
| 27 | Instead of rapidly expanding the ranks of the Party , it threatened , in their view , to reduce them ; instead of bridging the gap between a party dominated by members of the intelligentsia and the working masses , it threatened to institutionalize that gap . |
| 28 | The highest reaches of the Menshevik , Bolshevik and SR parties , it is true , continued to be dominated by members of the intelligentsia throughout . |
| 29 | The Party has long been dominated by members of the Sunni Arab minority , who have shown little patience with the Kurds of the north or the Shiite Arabs of the south . |
| 30 | Following his re-election as President in May 1988 François Mitterrand appointed as Prime Minister Michel Rocard , who in turn formed a minority government dominated by members of the Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste — PS ) [ see pp. 35978-81 ] . |