Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Developments in the economy were dominated by the government 's policy of price liberalization [ see pp. 37866 ; 38162-63 ] . |
| 2 | The first half of the novel is dominated by the girl 's death from leukaemia . |
| 3 | Sparsely furnished in keeping with the austere , scholarly traditions of the Annamese mandarinate , it was dominated by the family 's ancestral altar , which consisted of three tables of different heights lacquered in red and gold . |
| 4 | It is a beautiful city , in a lovely setting — clearly built for noblemen and dominated by the city 's landmark , the 16th century cathedral . |
| 5 | Venetian Romanesque architecture was dominated by the city 's eastern contacts and Byzantium continued to have more influence than Lombardy or Pisa . |
| 6 | Until well into the nineteenth century the nation 's coalminers were not regarded as a race apart , living and working in closely-knit communities dominated by the colliery 's winding gear and huge , ugly muck stacks , but merely as one of a number of groups of village craftsmen and labourers . |
| 7 | Last year , Scotland 's 16 health boards were reconstituted so that no trade unions or local authorities had the right of membership , and they are now dominated by the Tories ' natural allies — business people — under the cloak of rhetoric about bringing in commercial nous ( see box ) . |
| 8 | To starboard is a considerable area given over to the navigator and surrounded by the yacht 's ostentatious gallery of navigational electronics : Navstar 2000D Decca , 2000 satnav and XR4 GPs , a Skanti 8400S SSB radio and 3000 VHF and a Raytheon R20s radar . |
| 9 | Bowbazaar , in the centre of Calcutta , is a crowded business and residential district surrounded by the city 's main gold and furniture markets . |
| 10 | Bowbazaar is in the centre of Calcutta , surrounded by the city 's main gold market and furniture market . |
| 11 | Antoinette reclined here , surrounded by the doctor 's wife , the pharmacist 's wife , the teacher 's wife . |
| 12 | RIDING THE STORM : Johnny Bryan is surrounded by the world 's Press after we published our sensational pictures . |
| 13 | The rise was disclosed by the Government 's Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth Calman in his annual report . |
| 14 | adding [ ] ; and the net assets of £ [ x ] as disclosed by the Company 's consolidated balance sheet for the year ended [ date ] . |
| 15 | The latter term is usually applied to the average number of word choices permitted by the system 's grammar . |
| 16 | The 82,000 cars in the capital emit levels of exhaust fumes which , in congested areas , are 70 per cent above those permitted by the Netherlands ' national environment plan . |
| 17 | Expert private customers who are individuals are nonetheless treated as private investors for the purposes of the cold calling rules , and cold calls on them which are permitted by the SIB 's 1991 Common Unsolicited Calls Regulations are therefore subject to the SFA 's Unsolicited Calls Rules ( COB Rules 5 – 17 and 5 – 18 ) . |
| 18 | These do not include the restrictions on the issue or approval of direct offer advertisements or advertisements relating to BES schemes , but they do include most of the other advertising rules , for example SFA 's rules regulating the procedures for cold calls on private investors ( as defined ) which are permitted by the SIB 's cold calling regulations . |
| 19 | In 1829 he was one of the three judges for the Rainhill locomotive trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , won by the Stephensons ' ‘ Rocket ’ . |
| 20 | the award has been won by the company 's Middle East division . |
| 21 | Opens have been won or not won by the bag-man 's performance before and during the world 's oldest major championship week . |
| 22 | The only seat won by the nationalist Fatherland Party of Labour was won by the party 's leader Dimitar Arnaudov in the town of Kurdjali , where according to the Guardian of June 18 there had been an " ugly backlash against the restoration of the rights of Bulgaria 's ethnic Turkish minority " earlier in 1990 . |
| 23 | The remaining deputies would be elected by proportional representation on party lists , on the basis of the number of first ballot votes won by the party 's candidates in the single-member constituencies , and with a minimum threshold of 4 per cent before a party would qualify for such seats . |
| 24 | The kirkyards and muirlands of central and south Ayrshire are dotted with headstones and memorials to men martyred by the King 's Dragoons . |
| 25 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
| 26 | WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ? |
| 27 | In normal development , the cells may act in this way so that the developing baby is not attacked by the mother 's defence system . |
| 28 | ‘ Saddam Hussein ’ in ‘ Baghdad ’ , attacked by the world 's greatest power and its allies , becomes a vessel into which any amount of grievances , frustrations and wretchedness can be poured . |
| 29 | It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized . |
| 30 | Like a glass shattered by a soprano 's voice the span disintegrates into small fragments . |