Example sentences of "were dominated by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another old London couple were dominated by a ‘ matriarch ’ of a grandmother . |
| 2 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 3 | Craft villages were very different in character from their predecessors of a century or two before , and the new settlements which were dominated by a single workplace and where even the houses and public buildings were owned by the ironmaster , millowner or colliery company had no antecedents in an earlier age . |
| 4 | Two out of every three parishes were dominated by a squire or a small group of rich farmers . |
| 5 | Some hamlets were dominated by a single manufacturer whose influence was as great as that of a squire in an estate village , but most villages had several warehouses belonging to small manufacturers . |
| 6 | That is , their memories may just go back to Suez , they can remember where they were when Kennedy was assassinated and their formative political years were dominated by the Wilson government at home and the Vietnam war abroad . |
| 7 | The Chicago discussions were attended by fifty-one countries , many of which were still under German or Japanese occupation , so the proceedings were dominated by the USA , Britain , and the Commonwealth ( the USSR backed out at the last minute ) . |
| 8 | Such people , he added , were dominated by the notion of ‘ an end with horror , rather than a horror without end ’ . |
| 9 | Hitler 's proclamation on 24 February 1943 was , in fact , hardly noticed at all by the population , while reactions to the low-key speech on 21 March 1943 were dominated by the speculation over the astonishingly low figures for German war casualties which Hitler had given . |
| 10 | They were dominated by the Cliveden set — the Astors , friends of Herr Ribbentrop , the Nazi envoy to Britain . |
| 11 | By the time the pop charts were dominated by the girl groups of the '60s , the split was n't as apparent . |
| 12 | While that conception of the matter was a natural one in the world of thought of the Enlightenment period , in which the emerging sciences were dominated by the model of a machine-like world , it is open to serious scientific and theological challenge . |
| 13 | Between 1880 and 1890 international relations were dominated by the system which Bismarck built on the Berlin settlement of 1878 . |
| 14 | The second and third sessions were dominated by the question of ‘ collegiality ’ . |
| 15 | The capital accounts were dominated by the loan to the government , which was increased by a further £1m. in the 1740s , and it was the decline in interest paid on the government bonds rather than a fall in trading profits that led to declining dividends . |
| 16 | The 1956 Olympics at the MCG were opened by a president of MCC , Prince Philip , and were dominated by the likes of Kuts , Cuthbert , Devitt and Fraser . |
| 17 | These African developments owe much to an American entrepreneur who has personally provided the necessary technology transfer and opened up new possibilities for breaking old structures of trade that were dominated by the large producers in developed countries . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 20 | The universities , using an antiquated syllabus , turned out theologians , doctors , and lawyers and were dominated by the self-recruiting major colleges ( colegios mayores ) . |
| 21 | We can be fairly certain that the lives of most of the people were dominated by the need to provide the means of subsistence and somewhere to shelter . |
| 22 | We can be fairly certain that the lives of most of the people were dominated by the need to provide the means of subsistence and somewhere to shelter . |
| 23 | By contrast , the early 1980s were dominated by the re-emergence of the drift to the South East which had been such a focus of attention in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 24 | Earlier blends of spice used in medieval and Elizabethan cooking were dominated by the flavour of ginger . |
| 25 | Both the July 24-25 meeting and the post-ministerial conference between ASEAN and its " dialogue partners " ( Australia , Canada , the European Communities ( EC ) , Japan , New Zealand and the United States ) held on July 27-29 were dominated by the question of Cambodia and in particular the recent US decision to withdraw its support from the Cambodian rebel government at the UN and to enter into talks with Vietnam [ see p. 37598 ] . |
| 26 | Political developments in 1990 were dominated by the insurrection launched in October by armed forces of the FPR , which posed a significant threat to the Habyarimana government [ see pp. 37765-66 ; 37950-51 ] . |
| 27 | Dominica 's foreign affairs were dominated by the plans for political union agreed in principle by the seven countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) . |
| 28 | Events in Martinique and Guadeloupe were dominated by the work of the Ripert Commission , appointed by the French Minister of Overseas Departments and Territories to examine the issue of social and economic equality within France 's four overseas departments ( the other two being French Guiana and Réunion ) . |
| 29 | Discussions were dominated by the question of Western assistance to the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Foreign affairs during this period were dominated by the Gulf crisis . |