Example sentences of "[verb] by an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are potential pitfalls , the association may become dominated by an unrepresentative majority that could attempt to bring undue pressure on school policies . |
| 2 | However , discussions on this issue seem to be dominated by an inherent unrealism . |
| 3 | Architecturally , as in other ways , this pleasing street scene was dominated by an elegant seven-bay house in red Quantock sandstone . |
| 4 | The fear was that Britain 's population would decline rapidly , that it would be dominated by an aged population with few people of working age coupled with a rapidly decreasing birth rate . |
| 5 | Foucault 's recent work has been dominated by an explicit preoccupation with ‘ power ’ , and in his History he argues that the apparatus of sexuality is of central importance in the modern play of power . |
| 6 | Some of these points are illustrated in Table 3.1 which compares the effects of sleep at night and during the day upon growth hormone release and deep sleep ( dominated by an external cause , the act of going to sleep ) and cortisol release and REM sleep ( dominated by the body clock ) . |
| 7 | Warlords operated in the west , and the east was dominated by an independent anarchist force , the green armies of Makhno . |
| 8 | Knossos , Mallia and Zakro belong to a second type of Minoan town : one where the settlement surrounds and is dominated by an important temple . |
| 9 | Results within Yarns and Fabrics have been dominated by an invigorating performance by Blackwood Brothers . |
| 10 | Scott 's life was dominated by an intense commitment to godly religion , which involved searing spiritual experiences and recurrent bouts of melancholic despair . |
| 11 | He ‘ carried ideology to the point of perfection , [ was ] incapable of perceiving the world as it is , [ and was ] totally dominated by an unreal vision of things . ’ |
| 12 | The kitchen was what she had expected , dominated by an antique cooker and a fridge the size of a Buick . |
| 13 | Maj von Keller spurred his horse towards the carriage which , settling into the mud , was soon surrounded by an expectant crowd . |
| 14 | South Park , containing a herd of fallow deer , was surrounded by an 8 foot ( 2.5-metre ) deer fence ; North park was divided into areas for cattle grazing by iron fencing and barbed wire . |
| 15 | When I entered the Winter Gardens he was emerging surrounded by an hysterical crowd , having been greeted by a demonstration described to me by a hostile witness as ‘ reminiscent of a Nuremberg Rally ’ . |
| 16 | Today , the remarkably well-preserved ruins of the church , Abbot 's House and Infirmary are set in an attractive , wooded park — though surrounded by an incongruous mass of streets and factories . |
| 17 | The fibre is surrounded by an outer membrane , the sarcolemma , which encloses the nucleated sarcoplasm in which the fibrils are embedded . |
| 18 | Retrovirus virions consist of a capsid surrounded by an outer envelope , and within the capsid lies the nucleocapsid . |
| 19 | The blue theme was continued by using a pale blue-grey linen mount card backed with cream silk and surrounded by an attractive gold frame . |
| 20 | The portrait is surrounded by an ornate design . |
| 21 | However , the cell can not be surrounded by an impermeable membrane , because it must acquire substances — ‘ food ’ — from outside . |
| 22 | The Horror Film Specialist was surrounded by an admiring coterie of lesser horror film specialists and most of their conversation referred back to previous triumphs . |
| 23 | Nutty went to round up the others with the good news and returned to find their new trainer surrounded by an admiring crowd . |
| 24 | But , however confident you are after being wooed and won by an overseas recruiter , you may feel isolated and vulnerable once you have signed a contract and find that you are on your own . |
| 25 | Pebbles had broken the course record and brought her owner $900,000 ( £629,371 at the prevailing exchange rate ) , the greatest amount ever won by an English-trained horse in a single race . |
| 26 | On Dec. 20 the house of Ros Chhun , Minister of Transport and Communications , had been attacked by an angry mob . |
| 27 | The book was well received by the Lancet and British Medical Journal , but savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer in the Medical Times and Gazette of 1859 , who dismissed it , in a ridiculous review for which the most likely reason was personal animosity or jealousy , as ‘ a book which is not wanted [ and ] is not even up to the mark of the existing vade-mecums . |
| 28 | Baobabs in Zimbabwe and South Africa are being attacked by an unknown pathogen . |
| 29 | In Plymouth , Ricky Maule , six , underwent plastic surgery after he was attacked by an unknown dog while playing in the street . |
| 30 | Whilst many companies did not increase their dividends through the recession — indeed , quite a few cut their dividends — the overall dividend income from equities did not fall by an appreciable amount . |