Example sentences of "[vb pp] by an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the eighteenth century the trade had been dominated by an elite group of well-organised journeymen . |
| 2 | On a bright but cold day , the austere 40-minute ceremony was the culmination of a peaceful switch of power from 31 years of politics dominated by an army elite to a man with no military background . |
| 3 | In short , even a genuinely mulitilateral world system effectively dominated by an oligarchy of the important states , such as was envisaged in the Security Council as originally set up , would not be an international system in which most nations and nation-states played a significant role . |
| 4 | She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove . |
| 5 | Dominated by an economy based on cereal crops , the region had been plunged into recession by a series of poor harvests in the 1830 s . |
| 6 | The Nikol'sk Soviet was dominated by an ex-merchant , who was chairman . |
| 7 | In a report last summer , Mr Wohl said the market was dominated by an atmosphere of violence and extortion that significantly increased the retail price of fish in the city . |
| 8 | Consequently , this was curbed by an attack on the laundering of money earned by drug dealers , through banks , corporate ownership and securities transactions . |
| 9 | They have been criticised for the choice of colours associated with warfare , but up here in these hills surrounded by an army of uniformed police , US marshalls and private security guards all bristling with weapons , it is war : UMWA vice-president Cecil Roberts has said as much . |
| 10 | He recognised no social barriers when making friends and was surrounded by an army of spongers . |
| 11 | As day dawned a thick pall of acrid smoke hung over the riot-torn prison which was surrounded by an army of police , fire and ambulance officers . |
| 12 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 13 | Castro claimed that the country would survive even if " surrounded by an ocean of capitalism " . |
| 14 | The apartments are surrounded by an abundance of bars and restaurants and a ten to fifteen minute walk will take you into the town centre and the nightlife . |
| 15 | It would be surrounded by an 80ft high embankment and be 120ft deep in the middle . |
| 16 | a dust particle sticking to the printing plate or blanket which appears on the printed sheet as a dark spot surrounded by an halo . |
| 17 | There are also sets of tiles which build up into larger designs ( known as feature panels ) , and which can look quite striking when surrounded by an area of plain tiling . |
| 18 | It was surrounded by an undergrowth of tangled bushes and trees . |
| 19 | Dr Kai Simons of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory has found that at least some animal viruses enter the cell surrounded by an envelope of cell membrane . |
| 20 | Bands of pure baryte over 15 m thick occur within the zone surrounded by an envelope of celsian ( barium feldspar ) and barian muscovite . |
| 21 | As guests of a Maharajah in one of the great Indian Native States , we were surrounded by an opulence and splendour little changed since the time of Akbar . |
| 22 | Now , in his early thirties , he was surrounded by an aura of such vital confidence that she was sure it attracted a positive response from anyone within his orbit . |
| 23 | Even then , most great men had to be content with ‘ motte and bailey ’ , with a mound having a wooden lookout tower on top as a central defensive position , and a large enclosure surrounded by an earth rampart in which living quarters could be sited . |
| 24 | A cairn , later surrounded by an Iron Age fort , marks the ancient grave ; and at Carinish , before the causeway to Benbecula , are the ruins of one of the oldest churches in Scotland , Teampull na Trionaid , established in the early years of the thirteenth century . |
| 25 | Our first glimpse of the islands , from the windows of the Royal Air Force Tri-star airliner , gave an almost tropical impression , with light brown plains and hills and beaches of pure white sand , all surrounded by an azure sea . |
| 26 | However once employment had ended it could be used or disclosed by an employee in competition with his former employer . |
| 27 | The aim , Basson alleged , was to split the Zulus off from the ANC , which was substantially supported by South Africa 's other major tribe , the Xhosa , and ultimately to ensure that eventual multiracial elections were won by an alliance of Inkatha and others regarded by the SADF as " moderates " . |
| 28 | With its efficient sights , this became so popular that it soon almost ousted the longbow ; in fact this was the last meeting at which the silver arrow was won by an archer using a longbow . |
| 29 | It was once won by an archer who had a large family of young children who were fascinated by the spoon , which has a silver chain with a hook at the end in the form of a swan 's head and neck . |
| 30 | Mind you Oxford should have won by an avalanche . |