Example sentences of "[verb] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist scholars have shown how all academic disciplines have been dominated by a male view of the world . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Q2 's accommodation is dominated by a forward-facing chart table just abaft the Proctor mast . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Retail banking , insurance , property , shipping , communications , and retailing , for example , are all dominated by a small number of giant enterprises . |
| 14 | Although technical monopoly may be a rarity , as already noted markets are commonly dominated by a small number of large producers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A succession of marquees led to the fairground complex , dominated by a great ferris wheel . |
| 19 | The dark taproom was dominated by a morose Cranston , who sat slumped on a bench with his back against the wall . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is the standard , spacious , minimally-furnished living room , tastefully carpeted in subdued oatmeal and dominated by a long sofa and oversized TV . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Empirically however , the last century has been dominated by a major movement of people away from the countryside , although in the past 10 or 20 years there has been a significant repopulation of rural areas . |
| 26 | He was replaced by a Muslim revolutionary regime dominated by a 79-year-old theologian , the Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 27 | In the West , again , warfare was largely , though by no means completely , dominated by a defensive spirit . |
| 28 | In fact , it would be true to say that my first impression was of a man entirely dominated by a regular pattern of tight ginger curlicues of hair . |
| 29 | She was disconcerted to find that she walked into what was the main bedroom , dominated by a four-poster bed already turned down for the night . |
| 30 | In a league dominated by a restricted number of Canadian imports , home grown talent is craved like gold . |