Example sentences of "[verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race was dominated by 1992 champion Bryan McMonagle who qualified on pole position , led from start to finish and set fastest lap along the way . |
| 2 | In the 1960's such applications were dominated by financial control , transaction and personnel records . |
| 3 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 4 | Urban development corporations ( UDCS ) , were established , dominated by private business , to promote the regeneration of inner cities and bypass local authorities . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Top 40 rock is increasingly dominated by black music . |
| 10 | Takes precedence at carcasses over Egyptian Vulture but is dominated by Black Vulture . |
| 11 | The propriety of using animals in scientific education and research is , however , dominated by esoteric debate to the extent that the average reader is easily overawed into thinking that there is no room for non-specialist opinion which is other than rattle-brained ( of which there is no lack ) . |
| 12 | External relations were dominated by increasing tension with Pakistan over Kashmir [ see below ; p. 37965 ; see also p. 38631 ] . |
| 13 | The post-war fall in food prices , together with the larger cohorts seeking work , depressed agricultural wages , but new average real wage levels were dominated by industrial employment and continued to rise until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | The lifetime of the Thatcher governments has been dominated by large-scale unemployment . |
| 15 | In ancient Greece , Winckelmann saw the embodiment of an ideal : an ideal of visual beauty and , more particularly , of a whole mode of life dominated by visual beauty . |
| 16 | THE URBAN COMMONS of Manchester are dominated by Japanese knotweed ( Polygonum cuspidatum ) , forming large clumps and thickets on nearly every site . |
| 17 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the regular demand and supply of currencies in the foreign exchange markets tended to be dominated by current account transactions , which were expanding quite rapidly as international trade grew faster than domestic growth rates . |
| 19 | For example , there has been a good deal of solid research on the changing nature of the mining industries in the Third World , once entirely and now less entirely dominated by First World TNCs . |
| 20 | Alpine France is dominated by new brutalist architecture : stacked rabbit hutches reaching into the sky ; chains of pizzerias and hamburger restaurants ; cramped supermarkets . |
| 21 | Other areas of conifers are found in the High Weald and on the Lower Greensand , but the heavy soils of the Low Weald are dominated by deciduous woodland . |
| 22 | What my analysis suggests is that the denials of professional responsibility , and the attempts to limit the economic consequences of being professionals , are not very convincing to a public that can observe auditors in a position of power dominated by economic self-interest . |
| 23 | However , just as hardware systems are dominated by engineering thinking , macro-systems are dominated by economic thinking . |
| 24 | This fluidity of grouping practice , in classrooms dominated by curriculum-specific work areas in which a wide range of totally dissimilar tasks were simultaneously undertaken , occasionally led to extremely complex organizational problems and a good deal of confusion . |
| 25 | The publicly-available BES issues in the early months of 1993 , and those scheduled for the remainder of the year , are expected to again be dominated by assured tenancy schemes , which invest in residential properties for letting under assured tenancies . |
| 26 | As an example , he contends that ‘ communism is a transference to the party state of the moral traits and the regulatory mechanisms of the exogamous community family ’ ( p. 33 ) , so that the electoral success of communist parties had occurred only in areas dominated by that family type , whereas in France ‘ Socialism … follows on quite naturally from Catholicism ’ ( p. 86 ) . |
| 27 | However , the degree to which the maintenance behaviour is absorbed by several people appears to depend on the strength of the task-oriented actor(s) ; that is , if the group is dominated by one person , then , to restore balance to the group , most other members , for reasons which are difficult to understand , may adopt a consensus-seeking , team-building posture . |
| 28 | So a ‘ power ’ culture is dominated by one individual with the effect that others have little power . |
| 29 | This structure , made up of a succession of different levels or instances , is dominated by one form of production which forces the unity of any conjuncture , the non-economic structures determined ‘ in the last instance ’ by the economic ( 99 ) . |
| 30 | The accession of a child-king was also a dangerous time , especially if he , or indeed a mature monarch , was dominated by one group at the expense of others . |