Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when the party leadership was dominated by the sectarian views of Barbe and Celor , such reticence can not simply be explained by a sense of personal solidarity on the part of Thorez , and especially Vaillant-Couturier , for Barbusse . |
| 2 | White water-lily community ( Nymphaea alba ) in more oligotrophic lochs and lochans , dominated by the floating leaves of Nymphaea alba . |
| 3 | Self-assertive and uncompromising , Malins led a protest against the racial policies of the Good Templars in the American South , which culminated in a secessionist IOGT of the world , dominated by the grand lodges of England and Scotland , during 1876–87 . |
| 4 | They also discussed " a unique possibility of influencing the world markets of raw materials " — a reference to the gold and diamond mining industries dominated by the two countries . |
| 5 | The observations made so far may be summed up in terms of four historical phases throughout which Hellenic creativity was dominated by the two impulses . |
| 6 | Above : Finningley 's show was dominated by the Russian Knights Su-27 Flanker team , who provided a four-ship and singleton routine . |
| 7 | This part of the record business , getting the records to the consumers , had been even more strongly dominated by the major companies than had the origin of recordings . |
| 8 | Traditionally , or at least since Marx , socialist thought has been dominated by the economic problems posed by capitalism , poverty , mass unemployment , squalor , instability and even the possibility of the collapse of the whole system … |
| 9 | In his speech to the inaugural session , dominated by the economic implications of the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37631-41 ; 37694-97 ] , Camdessus urged the richer countries to assist those unable to " cope with the additional burden " of rising oil prices and the loss of earnings from worker remittances . |
| 10 | They support their conjecture that writing enables interpersonal meanings to be dominated by the logical functions of language , for instance , by citing the Royal Society of London . |
| 11 | Election campaigns are short , sharp , and dominated by the political parties . |
| 12 | Antiphonal choirs of rosewood and mahogany gleamed darkly in rooms dominated by the rich pedal-tones of velvet curtains and hand-printed wallpaper . |
| 13 | The first is dominated by the four generations of the patriarchs — Abraham , Isaac , Jacob and Joseph ( Genesis 12–50 ) ; the second by the majestic figure of Moses ( Exodus-Deuteronomy ) . |
| 14 | How can one communicate the importance of culture , the painstaking values of scholarship and of science in a society dominated by the superficial values of consumerism ? |
| 15 | A Communist International would not help , for it would be dominated by the working classes of the colonial countries , who would continue to be colonialist . |
| 16 | Since 1945 , Italy 's successive coalition governments have been dominated by the Christian Democrats , who have provided the country with a measure of continuity and stability through repeated crises and elections . |
| 17 | It has also had 52 governments , mostly coalitions , since 1945 , all dominated by the Christian Democrats . |
| 18 | There is also the rival Confederation of Co-operatives , dominated by the Christian Democrats and serving primarily rural and artisanal interests . |
| 19 | Our understanding of the civilian occupation at Kenchester is inevitably dominated by the aerial photographs , which reveal a 9 ha ( 22 acre ) irregular defended enclosure set roughly astride an east-west road immediately to the west of its junction with two other roads . |
| 20 | He saw it now as a crowding darkness of giant shapes against the merlons of the curtain wall , dominated by the eyeletted walls of the tall hexagonal keep . |
| 21 | Between 1945 and 1974 , according to research analysing the backgrounds of Tory MPs , the back benches remained dominated by the public schools and Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 22 | New Zealand also has the flightless kiwi ( its national symbol ) and was once dominated by the flightless moas , of which there could have been about 25 species . |
| 23 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 24 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 25 | Political activity during 1990 and early 1991 was largely dominated by the presidential elections due to be held in 1993 . |
| 26 | Tracey had been dominated by the perceptual aspects and had equated balance with apparent symmetry . |
| 27 | The East Coast of America is dominated by the big cities : Boston , New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , Washington all exert such a gravitational pull that the smaller towns are sucked into an orbit of dependency on the nearest city sun . |
| 28 | The organization of enterprises dominated by the modernist characteristics of Fordism , in terms of functional specialization , task fragmentation and assembly line production , is inimical to these requirements . |
| 29 | This year may well be the year in which British soul 's new generation emerges after a decade dominated by the synthetic beats of hip-hop and house . |
| 30 | Postmodernism points to a more organic , less differentiated enclave of organization than those dominated by the bureaucratic designs of modernity . |