Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the emphasis is on efficiency rather than excitement , with a colour scheme dominated by a variety of blacks and greys . |
| 2 | Henceforth they were denied access to active participation in the public cult and ( by implication of the biblical text which concentrated upon male activity ) deemed exempt from the obligation to fulfil many of the commandments — a loaded exemption given the fact that Judaism by this time was already very much a religion of performance , moving towards being a religion dominated by a plethora of commandments governing virtually every aspect of daily existence . |
| 3 | The nineteenth-century railway history of the United States was dominated by a number of themes which were dramatically reflected in the railway stations . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the issue of relations with neighbouring Senegal , which had deteriorated after the dissolution of the Confederation of Senegambia in September 1989 [ see p. 37602 ] . |
| 6 | Privatisation during the second term of the Conservative government ( 1983 — 7 ) was dominated by the sell-off of monopolies and public utilities . |
| 7 | ‘ Although we have reported an improvement in our performance in the third quarter the results for the period are dominated by the impact of losses on Hurricane Andrew ’ , which are now estimated at $38m net , including losses of more than $7m incurred through our London Market reinsurance operations . |
| 8 | Directly opposite the beach , surrounded by a mixture of bars and restaurants and only five minutes walk from the nightlife of Rhodes Town , the Club Exclusive Four Seasons hotel boasts a perfect location . |
| 9 | The Emperor 's five tents were invariably pitched on a rise in the centre of the camp and the royal enclosure was surrounded by a wall of curtains with five entrances . |
| 10 | There they found their beloved girl , surrounded by a horde of chimpanzees that had found and taken care of her . |
| 11 | Look ! ’ and he pointed in the direction of two nuns surrounded by a horde of children . |
| 12 | As in most Gascon forces of the time , they were surrounded by a mass of damoiseaux , donzels or douzets , some of whom were not young , inexperienced esquires but veterans of many campaigns and expeditions . |
| 13 | But becoming a woman does n't happen in a vacuum ; girls are surrounded by a mass of images and ideas about the female body and female sexuality , about periods and breasts , and about what exactly ‘ a woman ’ means , in our society . |
| 14 | She came upon the leather-worker further along the street surrounded by a mob of youths who were beating and kicking him . |
| 15 | WINDY Loch Assynt lies a few miles from the coast , near the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver ; surrounded by a ridge of mountains eleven miles in length , none of which drop below 2,000 feet , crowned by Sutherland 's highest peak , mighty Ben More Assynt . |
| 16 | We sat on her bedroom floor , surrounded by a stack of Looks , Elle , Cosmopolitan and Just 17 magazines , and I asked Janet to describe herself . |
| 17 | The boots , Mayhew tells us , were an object of special pride , often ‘ tastily ornamented … with a heart or thistle surrounded by a wreath of roses , worked below the instep ’ . |
| 18 | Bernice was fairly sure that if she asked whether she was , at that moment , on a lumpy excrescence on a strand of spaghetti stretching into the Doctor 's future and surrounded by a soup of probabilities , she would n't like the answer . |
| 19 | And when she came to cross the stream , she was surrounded by a host of angels . |
| 20 | In the dome is represented the Ascension with Christ seated on a rainbow and surrounded by a ring of angels and apostles alternating with olive trees . |
| 21 | ‘ I think he 's my favourite , ’ Eloise said , one slim finger directed at a toad made of nephrite , its bulging eyes two big ruby cabochons , surrounded by a ring of diamonds . |
| 22 | The chancel screen was of polished oak and before it , surrounded by a ring of candles , lay the corpses of Sir Ralph Whitton and Sir Gerard Mowbray . |
| 23 | Lizzy went into the party with Joanie and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of boys . |
| 24 | It was highly embarrassing , a sort of indelicacy , to stand on the platform surrounded by a crowd of males who had to be polite but were obviously not in the mood for feminine society . |
| 25 | He showed me a farmhouse , a solid four-square Umbrian tenant farm , surrounded by a grove of trees to break the wind . |
| 26 | It no longer amused him to be surrounded by a band of admirers . |
| 27 | On entering the exhibition , one is confronted by three objects in space surrounded by a perimeter of panels of drawings . |
| 28 | First , Athens is surrounded by a barrier of mountains , her first line of defence : working clockwise from Eleusis in the west , Mts Aigaleos , Parnes , Pentelikon and Hymettos run round the city , imagined at the centre of the dial ( the best place to get an impression of this is from near the Philopappos Monument on the Hill of the Muses ) . |
| 29 | Erika was ready for a treat and a moment later , surrounded by a forest of plants which gave the café an Amazonian aspect , they were seated and ordering coffee and cakes . |
| 30 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |