Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spot commands one of earth 's most splendid prospects with the city 's roofs , towers , flags and islets panoramically dominated by the red-brick campanile of St bark 's , the Basilica 's bulbous domes and the pinkish mass of the Doge 's Palace . |
| 2 | I had been interviewing a family — four young brothers , two sisters , their parents , the children 's paternal grandmother — about their lives in a city that was now dominated by the Syrian army . |
| 3 | To Maggie , though , the city was dominated by the superb cathedral and the rocky slopes of the mountains . |
| 4 | I left these agonizing streets of beggars behind and entered the Plaza Mayor , a magnificent example of eighteenth-century Spanish baroque , dominated by the superb façade of the Churrigueresque Town Hail or Ayuntamiento . |
| 5 | In the domestic sphere 1990 was dominated by the protracted dispute over the budget between Bush and the Democrat majority in Congress [ see below ] and by a series of financial and political scandals . |
| 6 | The proceedings were dominated by the developing study skills programme within the school , and it was this which the evaluators were assured was the major thrust of the school 's post-project library development . |
| 7 | If only a few births occur to teenagers who are under 18 years old , then the infant mortality of the " under 20 " maternal age group may be dominated by the lower mortality at maternal ages 18–19 , which may explain the apparent " anomaly " of the Danish data . |
| 8 | Principal developments in Somalia from mid-1989 [ see p. 36757 for events to that date ] continued to be dominated by the civil war , the regime 's attempts to establish some dialogue with opposition forces on its own terms , and allegations of human rights abuses [ see pp. 36806 ; 37113-14 ; 37174 ] . |
| 9 | A very striking example of a philosopher dominated by the visual metaphor is Descartes , of all the one who made the most radical attempt to break away from the preconceptions of common experience and establish knowledge on purely rational foundations . |
| 10 | He was still surrounded by woman , of course , mostly fat ones receiving Mud 's beauty treatment and so his early life was dominated by the female presence rather than the male which may help explain his future attitude to women for which flocks of emerging feminists , and a few of his friends , would berate him . |
| 11 | IT IS a shame that discussion of the Environmental Protection Bill will be dominated by the ill-judged decision to dismember the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 12 | Most of these are also found in the upper canopy , although that is dominated by the wide-ranging bee , Apis dorsata , with Xylocopa bees also conspicuous . |
| 13 | He became an alienated reactionary for whom the trauma of the First World War was reinforced by the memory of the fascist God that failed , and his thought became increasingly dominated by the negative obsession of the conspiracy theory of history . |
| 14 | Since the market for this metal is dominated by the automotive industry there was an inevitable decline in price which ended the year at $1,350 per ounce , over 55% down from the year 's high point . |
| 15 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 16 | Secondary trading in the government bond market is dominated by the gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) of which at the time of writing there are eighteen . |
| 17 | Torri del Benaco meanwhile , is another charming village , dominated by the 13th century castle of the Scaligiers . |
| 18 | In the old town by the harbour you find Piazza III Novembre , dominated by the 13th century Apponale Tower , and the cable-car up to the round Venetian watchtower which offers wonderful views . |
| 19 | The first three years of de Gaulle 's presidency were dominated by the Algerian war . |
| 20 | In 1917 the socialist parties , created but no longer dominated by the revolutionary intelligentsia , commanded the support of the vast majority of both workers and peasants . |
| 21 | In Madeira the local branch of it is dominated by the charismatic figure of Dr Alberto João Jardim and at any election , national or local , the party can count on between sixty-five and seventy per cent of the votes cast in the island . |
| 22 | This is no mean achievement in a region which is dominated by the Islamic Sharia law and where nomadic men feel very threatened when their wives and daughters go to school . |
| 23 | Korn/Ferry , whose world fee income achieved a fivefold increase between 1977 and 1986 , and is confidently expected to pass the $100m. mark by the 1990s , is sometimes criticised in the USA for being dominated by the central management , for its ‘ big factory ’ image where the seniors do the selling and the juniors do the work , and it has also suffered much at the pen of headhunting newshound Jim Kennedy , who produces Executive Recruiter News . |
| 24 | It is an epic dominated by the central figure of Moses . |
| 25 | The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church . |
| 26 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 27 | Politically , the area was dominated by the Labour Party . |
| 28 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |
| 29 | Of the partisan councils , most are dominated by the Labour Party with some nationalist presence on occasion . |
| 30 | This has come about because southern politics were so dominated by the Democratic party in the century after the Civil War that many of its Senators and Representatives faced sterner re-election contests in the Primary elections within their own party ( i.e. for the right to stand for the Democrats again ) than they did against the Republicans in the election itself . |