Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout Edward 's reign papal policy towards England was dominated by a concern for peace within the realm . |
| 2 | In order to appreciate the significance of Dicey 's views on democracy we should recall , in particular , the fact that political opinion during the last decades of the nineteenth century was dominated by a concern with the rise of democracy . |
| 3 | In the centre of the village was the square , dominated by a portrait of the Chairman . |
| 4 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 5 | In the early years of this century its study was dominated by a man of great learning and erudition , Sir George Macdonald , who had conducted his own excavations . |
| 6 | Indeed , all in all , I can not see why the option of her returning to Darlington Hall and seeing out her working years there should not offer a very genuine consolation to a life that has come to be so dominated by a sense of waste . |
| 7 | It was dominated by a century from Richards , which on the fourth morning he took in explosive style to 182 not out when Lloyd declared on 379 for 7 . |
| 8 | The façade is dominated by a statue of the Virgin , but the best feature is the courtyard , still flanked by sections of the original convent . |
| 9 | The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard . |
| 10 | The first concerns the structure and organisation of agricultural edge-tool manufacturing — its transition from a workshop trade to a factory-based industry dominated by a hierarchy of large integrated firms and , after 1920 , following the collapse of its traditional markets , irreversible decline . |
| 11 | A similar situation exists in some Latin American countries — for example , in Brazil , Argentina and Chile — where industrialization is well advanced and political life is now dominated by a struggle between classes , the outcome of which will decide whether their regimes remain autocratic , sometimes regressing into military and repressive forms , or become more democratic and eventually social democratic . |
| 12 | This , everyone had agreed two years back , was because women were so used to being in groups dominated by a minority of articulate men ( all groups — social , work , political ) that it was important they ( we ) should be able to discover and articulate our own understanding of all the minute day-by-day ways in which we were oppressed , and relate these to a developing understanding of the ways women were oppressed in society generally . |
| 13 | The legislature was condemned as unrepresentative , as an institution dominated by a minority of rural and small town based conservatives , usually from the South , out of touch with the needs of the majority , located largely outside the South and living mainly in urban areas . |
| 14 | Product-costing is still too heavily dominated by a concept of variable costs which is very short-term and defined solely in respect of changing volume of output . |
| 15 | Her own stand is dominated by a burst of swansdown in shades of pink ranging from cerise to baby blush . |
| 16 | Instead , the emphasis is on efficiency rather than excitement , with a colour scheme dominated by a variety of blacks and greys . |
| 17 | Henceforth they were denied access to active participation in the public cult and ( by implication of the biblical text which concentrated upon male activity ) deemed exempt from the obligation to fulfil many of the commandments — a loaded exemption given the fact that Judaism by this time was already very much a religion of performance , moving towards being a religion dominated by a plethora of commandments governing virtually every aspect of daily existence . |
| 18 | They are dominated by a complex of chalk-rich till with many bodies of sand and gravel . |
| 19 | But feminist psychology , like traditional psychology , is still dominated by a love-affair with certainty . |
| 20 | The nineteenth-century railway history of the United States was dominated by a number of themes which were dramatically reflected in the railway stations . |
| 21 | The central star cluster is dominated by a number of discrete sources ; one of them , IRS16 , has traditionally been considered the core of the cluster . |
| 22 | In his youth , I discover , he too was sucked into a hippy cult that was dominated by a leader with suggestive powers . |
| 23 | For those who find themselves in that category , something extra is now needed , some adventitious stroke of fortune , something to upset the terms of the argument and create a world no longer dominated by a leader of proven unpopularity . |
| 24 | I have pointed out elsewhere that the epoch of Western civilization to which Rado refers is dominated by a process of unconscious recapitulation of polytheism in Christianity . |
| 25 | The N transept is dominated by a Visitation by Kracker . |
| 26 | Sometimes , naturally , there would be strong disagreements , but more often than not , the atmosphere was dominated by a feeling of mutual respect . |
| 27 | Or has the show been dominated by a faction from Goldsmith 's College ? |
| 28 | Peaceful Kidwelly is dominated by a castle of great and surprising strength . |
| 29 | In Prescott 's vivid account : The western wall of the temple was dominated by a representation of the god engraved on a ‘ plate of gold of enormous dimensions , thickly powdered with emeralds ’ , the most valuable precious stones of the region . |
| 30 | These forests contain many species of trees ( dominated by a mix of beech , spruce and fir ) , hundreds of wild flowers , deep carpets of moss and many lichens . |