Example sentences of "was dominated by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former was dominated by a single mode of utterance , as in the traditional literary genres , the lyric , epic , and tragedy . |
| 2 | The faculty of divinity at that moment was dominated by a hard intelligence , Professor Bethune-Baker , known to all behind his back as the Bath Bun . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By midday on Friday , the elegant facade of their first-floor flat was dominated by a banner bearing the message : moral — get stuffed boyo . |
| 5 | The stage was dominated by a cracked mask with blank , blind eyes . |
| 6 | In the portrayal of the institution , which was dominated by a brutish regime and encrusted in excrement , there was no indication whether this was present or bygone circumstances . ’ |
| 7 | The nineteenth-century railway history of the United States was dominated by a number of themes which were dramatically reflected in the railway stations . |
| 8 | Its façade was dominated by a 65 ft. concrete arch , with a vast concourse beyond flanked by offices and retiring rooms . |
| 9 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 10 | Sometimes , naturally , there would be strong disagreements , but more often than not , the atmosphere was dominated by a feeling of mutual respect . |
| 11 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 12 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 13 | ‘ The amateur game was dominated by a handful of players ; they did n't win everything but they won a large number of tournaments , ’ he adds . |
| 14 | In his youth , I discover , he too was sucked into a hippy cult that was dominated by a leader with suggestive powers . |
| 15 | The lay-out was traditional and mirrored that of the old medieval cathedral , but both exterior and interior were lavishly decorated with classical arches and columns , and the whole building was dominated by a vast classical dome , which rose almost to the height of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral , one of the tallest Gothic buildings in Europe . |
| 16 | Recently , it has emerged from studies of Upper Permian fluviolacustrine deposits throughout southern Africa that the geography was dominated by a series of giant lakes , perhaps interconnected within major fluvial frameworks . |
| 17 | It was dominated by a huge television in one corner and she pointed me towards an armchair , covered in worn corduroy , which had once been dark red . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Throughout Edward 's reign papal policy towards England was dominated by a concern for peace within the realm . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |
| 23 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 24 | From the beginning to the end of his life , Nizan was dominated by a manichean belief that the world could ultimately be divided into Good and Evil . |
| 25 | Under the leadership of Hugh Gaitskell , the Labour Party was dominated by a " revisionism " that edged away from socialism and dropped a commitment to the nationalisation of private industry . |
| 26 | There was an easy chair and a television set , but the room was dominated by a table covered in paints and an easel with a partly finished painting on it . |
| 27 | This may or may not be true , but , what most certainly is true is that the next decade of Trinidadian political life was dominated by a diverse band of political mavericks who had only one thing in common . |
| 28 | The room , possibly used as a chancery by the duke , was dominated by a long table with chairs down either side and a high-backed , throne-like seat at the top . |
| 29 | A chamberlain showed them to their seats just beneath the high table , which was dominated by a pearl-encrusted silver salt cellar . |
| 30 | Navigation and survey project work run from Swindon was dominated by a second season working for the Italian Government on search and salvage of aircraft wreckage deep offshore Italy . |