Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The R-Series is also supported by a wide range of applications , and the MIPS market is a level playing field , not dominated by a Sun Microsystems . |
| 2 | The Government has the power and the responsibility to set accounting standards , and financial accounting is dominated by the appropriation accounts , which provide the central account to the legislative of spending by the executive . |
| 3 | The public system of child care in the UK has been dominated by the twin themes of rescue and compensation . |
| 4 | By the time the pop charts were dominated by the girl groups of the '60s , the split was n't as apparent . |
| 5 | The class structure is becoming dominated by the knowledge mercenaries who hire themselves out to the feudal barons of top management and state agencies , each of whom is as good as the last battle . |
| 6 | Immediately dominated by the teacher unions , who were committed to the maintenance of teacher autonomy , the Council soon came to view its tasks as increasing the range of choice available to teachers but in no way prescribing what and how they taught . |
| 7 | In this case , the dictionary was partitioned by word length and , for any length , was sorted by the vector sequences of the words in descending order . |
| 8 | Set up four months ago , it consists of a couple of corrugated iron buildings surrounded by the twig shelters of the 3000 families that the government says live there . |
| 9 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 10 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 13 | Surrounded by the engineering workshops and servicing companies of Aberdeen Harbour lies the entrance to the nerve centre of a major Scottish band . |
| 14 | There is little industry except the old dog mill which now makes plastic chairs and the new brewery which brews real ale , but being surrounded by the power stations of Drax , Eggborough , Ferrybridge and Thorpe Marsh , it makes a good base for power station workers , who can move for promotion without uprooting their families . |
| 15 | the building societies ; since the deregulation permitted by the Building Societies Act of 1986 and subsequent Orders in Council . |
| 16 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 17 | But this attitude was vehemently attacked by the campaign organisers , who argued that it is hard to influence the number of partners people have . |
| 18 | Stainless steel is also attacked by the cleaning fluids intended for silver-plated cutlery and by immersion for long periods in vinegary solutions , particularly if the vinegar has salt with it , as in the case of pickles . |
| 19 | They must have been attracted by the fringe benefits . ’ |
| 20 | The Commission 's president , five vice-presidents and commissioners were nominated by the member governments but were supposedly loyal to the EEC itself and had departments created under them , just like a government . |
| 21 | He was a member of the Council of the National Trust for 29 years and was nominated by the Youth Hostels Association . |
| 22 | The Appointments Commission which selects public members will in future also select press members from names proposed ‘ at large ’ , instead of being nominated by the constituent bodies . |
| 23 | Under its 1949 Basic Law ( Constitution ) , the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are ( i ) the Federal Diet ( Bundestag ) , the lower house of parliament , comprising 497 members elected for a four-year term by a mixed system of proportional representation and direct voting , and 22 members elected by the West Berlin House of Representatives ; ( ii ) the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) , the upper house of parliament , comprising 41 members of the governments of the Republic 's 10 Länder ( states ) and four representatives appointed by the West Berlin Senate ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident — currently Richard von Weizsäcker ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; and ( iv ) the federal government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — currently Helmut Kohl ) elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President and his or her ministers . |
| 24 | Under the 1949 Basic Law the Federal Republic is a " democratic and social federal state " whose organs are : ( i ) the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) elected for a four-year term in universal , direct , free and secret elections ; ( ii ) the Bundesrat ( upper house ) , now comprising 65 members of the governments of the Republic 's 16 Länder ( states ) ; ( iii ) the Federal President ( Bundespräsident ) elected for a five-year term by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) , comprising the members of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates nominated by the Länder parliaments ; ( iv ) the Federal Government ( Bundesregierung ) consisting of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler — elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the Federal President ) , together with his or her ministers ; and ( v ) the Federal Constitutional Court ( Bundesverfassungsgericht ) , whose judges are elected by the Bundestag and Bundesrat to serve 12-year non-renewable terms . |
| 25 | All the tee-shirts were modelled by the pupils during the school 's fashion show organised by the Parent Teachers Association . |
| 26 | The Micronet service , organised by the publishing houses EMAP and ECC with Prestel , will adapt a set for £50 plus a low quarterly charge , and provide programs for microcomputers at low or no cost . |
| 27 | The awards were organised by the Home Counties South group of the IPR and presented by explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes . |
| 28 | This year there are going to be at least seven conferences , organised by the fan clubs around the country . |
| 29 | It was clear that our troops would not be able to hold out much longer , so we got most of the convalescent men away , making for Mohnyin where there was a small hospital organised by the Bible Churchmen 's Missionary Society . |
| 30 | The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules . |