Example sentences of "and controlled by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the West , we voluntarily sell out to the alluring God of Materialism and allow ourselves to be manipulated and controlled by Western ideals .
2 As we have witnessed in the preceding chapter , the ideological contest for control of the past is largely predicated on the basis of the Renaissance being a phenomenon , something that can be discovered and controlled by accurate descriptions of what it is .
3 The therapeutic approach has tended to cast Disabled people in very passive roles , initiated and controlled by non-Disabled professionals .
4 ‘ Measurement by modern electric instruments developed in recent years has revealed that man and all life forms are ordered and controlled by electro-dynamic fields which can be measured and mapped with precision .
5 The Strone and Maukinhill Information Education Project was operated and controlled by local residents and financially supported by the local education authority .
6 In particular , the moves in education to allow schools to become self-governing has shifted finance normally allocated and controlled by local authorities back to central government , whilst the selling of council houses has reduced both the size of the public housing sector controlled by local authorities and the level of financial control that accompanied this .
7 Local Kurdish village guards , paid by central government to protect villages from PKK attacks and controlled by local notables , now numbered some 25,000 .
8 Moreover , the policing of the picket line was organised and controlled by local police officers according to a ‘ hearts and minds ’ philosophy : the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sensibly recognised that almost every family in Sheffield had connections with the steelworkers and was keen to ensure that the police did not alienate themselves from the wider community .
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