Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We will say that a feasible solution is efficient if it is dominated by no other feasible solution . |
2 | Feminist scholars have shown how all academic disciplines have been dominated by a male view of the world . |
3 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
4 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
5 | The mode and relations of production in an economy dominated by a smallholding peasantry strengthen the ability of the bureaucracy to control without strengthening the ability of other political institutions to intervene in a representative capacity . |
6 | Q2 's accommodation is dominated by a forward-facing chart table just abaft the Proctor mast . |
7 | Cressy , the waiflike wife , is a refugee from a strange Catholic family community dominated by a patriarchal grandfather who as an artist has something of Holman Hunt ( I fancy ) as well as of Eric Gill , who more immediately inspired him . |
8 | The study of religion in the context of local history will be influenced by such things as ‘ Was the area dominated by a religious institution in medieval times ? ’ |
9 | But the basic changes towards a farming system dominated by a limited range of plants , most of which are cereals , can only have reduced variety in farmland wildlife , including birds . |
10 | ‘ The existence of such a body is seen as giving more appropriate recognition to the commercial and practical realities of an auditing services market dominated by a small number of large accounting firms . ’ |
11 | The European car industry has increasingly become dominated by a small number of large companies . |
12 | The unusual structure of the Daily Herald certainly prevented it being dominated by a small group , apart from the elected brothers of the TUC council . |
13 | Heavy industry was largely concentrated in a handful of favoured regions , dominated by a small number of major and in part foreign-owned firms , and closely dependent upon the government for subsidies and contracts . |
14 | Retail banking , insurance , property , shipping , communications , and retailing , for example , are all dominated by a small number of giant enterprises . |
15 | Although technical monopoly may be a rarity , as already noted markets are commonly dominated by a small number of large producers . |
16 | Many industries are dominated by a small number of large companies ; because of their relative share of the market , the existence of barriers to entry , and the differentiated character of their products , these companies are not pure price- takers , but have the ability to increase their prices above marginal cost . |
17 | Suppliers operating in industrial markets dominated by a small number of large companies may find it possible to base their annual and long term forecasts on the expected purchases of these customers . |
18 | The striking feature is the extent of congruence across a range of different musical practices , resulting in a not exactly homogeneous musical field but one clearly dominated by a bourgeois synthesis . |
19 | A succession of marquees led to the fairground complex , dominated by a great ferris wheel . |
20 | At times even Rome itself was dominated by a great senatorial family whom the popes could not control . |
21 | The dark taproom was dominated by a morose Cranston , who sat slumped on a bench with his back against the wall . |
22 | A popular resort , its beaches stretch for miles and the city 's particular charm lies in its past — we visited underground Minoan tombs and explored an old Venetian town , dominated by a well-preserved fortezza and mosques dating from as early as 1670 . |
23 | A family likeness can be seen among all the boys , every face dominated by a long curved nose . |
24 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
25 | Now it 's reverted to its original purpose — a dining room , dominated by a long , dark wood table , at which Neneh is sitting , absent-mindedly twisting a plait . |
26 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
27 | There is the standard , spacious , minimally-furnished living room , tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal and dominated by a long sofa and oversized TV . |
28 | Navigation and survey project work run from Swindon was dominated by a second season working for the Italian Government on search and salvage of aircraft wreckage deep offshore Italy . |
29 | This meant that whichever of the leading candidates was eventually declared president , he or she would have to face a legislature dominated by a rival party . |
30 | The lay-out was traditional and mirrored that of the old medieval cathedral , but both exterior and interior were lavishly decorated with classical arches and columns , and the whole building was dominated by a vast classical dome , which rose almost to the height of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral , one of the tallest Gothic buildings in Europe . |