Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout each experiment subjects were instructed to avoid swallowing saliva , which was collected in 15 minute aliquots by continuous buccal aspiration . |
| 2 | In Britain or America or France history making is dominated by professional historians organized in universities and institutes ; their institutional loyalties are cross-cut by intellectual allegiances to schools of interpretation and to further specializations by place and by time . |
| 3 | However , since they are usually areas of low vegetation dominated by rough grasses frequently with bracken ( Pteridium aquilinum ) , gorse ( Ulex sp. ) , and scattered trees , in ornithological terms it is convenient to consider the two together . |
| 4 | Governors should control the money with this end in view and must not allow their thinking to become dominated by financial concerns . |
| 5 | In the 1960's such applications were dominated by financial control , transaction and personnel records . |
| 6 | Clearly party and leader images were dominated by personal partisan prejudice and that domination increased towards the end of the campaign . |
| 7 | Clearly images of parties and leaders were dominated by personal partisan prejudice and that domination increased towards the end of the campaign . |
| 8 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 9 | Urban development corporations ( UDCS ) , were established , dominated by private business , to promote the regeneration of inner cities and bypass local authorities . |
| 10 | As in many English country house sales , the bidding was dominated by private buyers prepared to bid uncommercially high prices for silver which , although good quality and of eighteenth-century date , had been well used ( up to his death in 1990 , the late Fürst lived like a fairy tale prince ) , for lavish nineteenth-century jewellery and bibelots like snuff boxes and jewelled ostrich feather fans . |
| 11 | Consequently , the mechanical behaviour is dominated by viscoelastic phenomena , in contrast to materials such as metal and glass where atomic adjustments under stress are more localized and limited . |
| 12 | In this period , against the background of a developing world market , within a ‘ global economy ’ dominated by multinational corporations , the existing monopolistic cultural formation both confirms itself and , at another level , becomes noticeably fissured , through the development of an assortment of transient subcultures . |
| 13 | He indicates that , with the control of premature mortality largely the result of reducing mortality from infectious diseases , the pattern of population morbidity will be dominated by chronic diseases . |
| 14 | Casework loads tend to be dominated by short-term ( or even crisis ) work ; service development — which demands long lead times — is easily squeezed out . |
| 15 | On a day-to-day basis , the market is instead dominated by short-term capital movements in search of quick profits or a hedge against exchange risks . |
| 16 | Unless the leaky Government machine has failed to function by spewing out the usual advance warning of announcements in the pipeline , it seems unlikely that the deadline will be met — reflecting the complexities of trying to make rational long-term decisions in energy markets dominated by short-term thinking . |
| 17 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 18 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 19 | Both cars will retail at roughly $40,000 , challenging a market currently dominated by European luxury imports . |
| 20 | Other equally influential modern forms of historiography have tended to develop still further this European ethnocentrism , with other societies viewed either as the passive victims of the European search for markets ( e.g. Wallerstein 1979 ) , so that the rest of the world is seen as peripheral to a West-European core , or else as active players in what is still , however , a story dominated by European desires ( e.g. Wolf 1982 ) . |
| 21 | Egypt was to become shaped and then dominated by European developments of both a political and economic character . |
| 22 | In areas dominated by Quaternary deposits emphasis in research in the late 1950s and subsequently was naturally directed towards the interpretation of the stages and nature of Quaternary landscape change , and this involved the inception of new conceptual models of glacial landform development well exemplified by the way in which J.B. Sissons of the University of Edinburgh developed a theme in many research papers of the interpretation of patterns of deglaciation involving stagnant as well as active ice ( Sissons , 1976 ) . |
| 23 | But now the animal world is facing its biggest ever challenge — to stay alive in a world dominated by greedy and thoughtless humans armed with guns , explosives , machines and money . |
| 24 | The Bush tour produced no substantial new initiatives , and was seen primarily as a US effort to reassure the region 's governments that they were not being ignored , even though US foreign policy was currently dominated by eastern Europe and by the Gulf crisis . |
| 25 | The culture of the North East , identified by Ardagh as being dominated by working class values , was formed in an era of highly paid male employment in mining , heavy engineering and marine transport . |
| 26 | The reasons for this are many — the sheer size of the square , the three surrounding sides that are dominated by elegant palazzo walls that add a solidity that speaks of permanence , but mostly the Duomo , the cathedral , whose façade is among the most beautiful in the world ; in the sun , its marble is eye-achingly white . |
| 27 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 28 | During his visit Kaifu held extensive talks with his Chinese counterpart , Li Peng , the talks were dominated by international issues , especially arms control . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's debate was dominated by black sections supporters who derided the compromise notion of a mixed-race ‘ black and white minstrels ’ society . |
| 30 | The examples of Sugar Ray Robinson , Henry Armstrong and Ike Williams attest to this and heavyweight boxing was dominated by black boxers almost totally from 1937 . |