Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prospect of the hill above their homes being dominated by a 100ft tower so appauled local people , the first ever public planning inquiry was convened . |
| 2 | All around its industrial heritage can be seen , in the lead mining centre at the Dale Killhope Wheel , Britain 's finest lead mining site , which is dominated by a 30ft water wheel . |
| 3 | Recently , it has emerged from studies of Upper Permian fluviolacustrine deposits throughout southern Africa that the geography was dominated by a series of giant lakes , perhaps interconnected within major fluvial frameworks . |
| 4 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 5 | It is fringed by sandy beaches and coconut groves , and dominated by the 3,500ft Mount Nevis . |
| 6 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |
| 7 | Above it the Boyne coat of arms , surrounded by a cannon , flags and spears , forms the centre-piece of the ceiling . |
| 8 | The abbey he lorded was essentially a preserve for the well-endowed ; thirty or so monks surrounded by a staff of several hundred servants , controlling the life of a substantial area . |
| 9 | Their armour consisted of large dorsal and ventral oval shields surrounded by a series of smaller plates . |
| 10 | Somewhere out there in the darkness , surrounded by the paraphernalia of violent death , was a body . |
| 11 | Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most . |
| 12 | Sandringham , the royal family 's winter fortress , was also surrounded by the media . |
| 13 | It would be surrounded by an 80ft high embankment and be 120ft deep in the middle . |
| 14 | He was horrified at the ‘ monstrous forms of misery and vice ’ disclosed by the statistics , believing that facts must disturb prejudices and theories , and that the Census reports were ‘ the Doomsday-book of the people of England , as the great volume of the Conqueror was of its surface ’ . |
| 15 | Henry II 's inheritance was won by a series of marriages which were politically successful but domestically disastrous . |
| 16 | She was attacked by a 12ft shark . |
| 17 | Even by 1972 , energy and economic issues displaced environmental issues as more newsworthy , being deemed by the media to be of greater and more immediate public interest ( Parlour , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | The 60,000-tonne Aegean Sea was shattered by a series of explosions , setting the surrounding seas ablaze . |
| 19 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the fabric of mid-Victorian hegemony was shattered by a series of structural contradictions , from economic retardation and industrial unrest , to growing socialist and feminist political militancy and intensification of anxiety over a whole range of social issues . |
| 20 | The British establishment has become rather touchy of late about arms dealers , embarrassed by a series of press revelations about shady deals being done in London . |
| 21 | The fourth side of the square was occupied by a gas-works whose gasometer looked down on its neighbours . |
| 22 | It was owned by a series of French collectors until 1937 , then by three New York galleries until its purchase in 1947 by the late Mrs Charles S. Payson for $80,000 . |
| 23 | The brands , owned by the Sheep Dip Whisky Company , are not flavoured by either sheep dip or pig 's nose but have a promising cult following among farmers . |
| 24 | The following day British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB — launched in April 1990 ) merged with its chief rival , Sky Television , which had been formed in February 1989 and was owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch , both companies having sustained substantial operating losses over the year . |
| 25 | Her countrywoman 's upbringing told her that he must be a gamekeeper on the estate owned by the people at Hillmarden Hall — some property developer and his wife , she believed . |
| 26 | However , if we look up rather than down the stratification hierarchy and see serious crimes being committed by the people who are respectable , well-educated , wealthy , and socially privileged then the imagery of pathology seems harder to accept . |
| 27 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 28 | A High Court judge on Friday made Gemma a ward of court and ruled that she could not be approached by the media . |
| 29 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 30 | He told Macmillan that if any harm befell him ‘ it would have a most serious effect upon the relations of Ghana with the Commonwealth … the failure to help Lumumba would never be forgotten by the people of Africa . ’ |