Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 2 | The prospect of the hill above their homes being dominated by a 100ft tower so appauled local people , the first ever public planning inquiry was convened . |
| 3 | All around its industrial heritage can be seen , in the lead mining centre at the Dale Killhope Wheel , Britain 's finest lead mining site , which is dominated by a 30ft water wheel . |
| 4 | Schizophrenia is primarily a thought disorder , whereas depression is dominated by a mood disorder . |
| 5 | Sweden is a larger country than Norway with a compact Arctic region dominated by a mountain chain that runs along its western edge , near the border with Norway . |
| 6 | For most of the eighteenth century the trade had been dominated by an elite group of well-organised journeymen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But it is still dominated by the attitude Parlee advises at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 10 | The report noted that " if the 1980s were dominated by the debt crisis in the developing world , the 1990s have started under the shadow of one in the developed " . |
| 11 | Component 4 is dominated by the scan line banding mentioned previously , but some anomalous dark areas may be worthy of investigation . |
| 12 | The new five-door car , which is aimed at a middle sector of the market dominated by the VW Golf , Vauxhall Astra and Fiat Tipo , is one of Rover 's most important launches this decade . |
| 13 | Biocontrol agents , dominated by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis , even now account for only ca 1 per cent of this market . |
| 14 | Most previous research on economic restructuring has focused on job loss and geographical shifts in investment in manufacturing industry , but manufacturing accounts for only 26% of all employment today and the Thanet area provides an opportunity to examine restructuring processes in an area dominated by the services sector . |
| 15 | It is a picturesque city of cobbled pedestrian streets and timber-framed houses , dominated by the Cathedral Tower , a Gothic building constructed of red Vosges sandstone and standing over 320 feet tall . |
| 16 | In that sense purity marks a distinctive break with the earlier sanitary approach to sexual regulation which had been dominated by the elite voice of professional experts . |
| 17 | The growth of international trade during the long post-war boom and the internationalization of production which have given rise to the new international division of labour occurred under a system where exchange rates were stable over long periods of time , and international finance was dominated by the US dollar , the US economy and Washington 's policies . |
| 18 | The ground floor has big architectural metal sculptures , dominated by the Elephant Palace whose abstract form in shiny brass echoes the monumental mass of an elephant and scores the top price at $250,000 . |
| 19 | The commercial propliner world is dominated by the Douglas family , from the ubiquitous Dc-3 and all its variants to the DC-4 , DC-6 and DC-7 . |
| 20 | Land-agents and estate agents passing through at the brief moment of negotiation are likely to be more exclusively dominated by the money motive . |
| 21 | In an election dominated by the unification issue , it was notable that combined share of the vote won by the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , was only 43.8 per cent , a smaller percentage than in any of the West German general elections except that of 1949 . |
| 22 | The central 10pc is dominated by the radio continuum source known as Sgr A ( Fig. 6b ) , and a dense star cluster observed in the infrared . |
| 23 | On the Cornish side of the Tamar , the village is dominated by the railway viaduct crossing the river . |
| 24 | Successful business transactions hinge on the overcoming of cultural barriers to communication , with the consequent emergence of a localised negotiated order , not so clearly dominated by the host society and its culture . |
| 25 | Much of liberal politics before they were snuffed out by the Dej regime had been dominated by the Bratianu family . |
| 26 | In a referendum on Aug. 19 popular approval was given to a new constitution drafted by the National Forum , a multiparty conference dominated by the opposition Comité des forces vives formed in mid-1991 . |
| 27 | The high moral principle , to use his own phrase , of mid-Victorian muscular Christianity , may well have seemed to the agnosticism of early twentieth-century scientific certainty an insubstantial basis for the development of Co-operation ; and , as a derivative from the French , from the advocacy by Louis Blanc and Buchez of self-governing Producers ' Associations formed by workmen and operating through ‘ National Workshops ’ , the concept was not only at odds with but alien to that of the British Movement which had come to be dominated by the Consumer Movement . |
| 28 | This year Middle Eastern life was dominated by the Gulf War . |
| 29 | Foreign affairs during this period were dominated by the Gulf crisis . |
| 30 | Foreign relations during this period were dominated by the Gulf crisis , in which the UK government gave strong support to the US-led allied operation against Iraq [ see pp. 37935 ; 37982-86 ] . |