Example sentences of "[verb] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elections established a new local government structure with considerably enhanced powers in place of local councils still dominated by former communists . |
| 2 | A re-draft , tabled for the December session by a constitutional commission dominated by former communists , had envisaged parliament having the right to form the Cabinet and shape policy , shifting the balance of power away from the President . |
| 3 | The NSF was reorganized as a political party , dominated by former RCP members . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | All this suggests that lack of competitive pressure felt by US business played an important role in the loss of its pre-eminent position The structure of domestic industry was probably dominated by fewer firms than in Japan or the EEC taken as a whole . |
| 6 | The first three chapters of I Corinthians are dominated by this problem . |
| 7 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 8 | Thursday morning 's newspapers were dominated by this news , accompanied by that of the victory of an independent ( i.e. anti-Coalition ) Conservative candidate in a by-election at Newport . |
| 9 | General Obasanjo 's biography of his friend Chukwuma Nzeogu , the organizer of the coup , makes it very clear that the objective of the coup leaders was to create a government no longer dominated by these values . |
| 10 | When Margaret Thatcher became leader the party was still dominated by these men who had been through the war together . |
| 11 | The answer from a CEGB expert , surrounded by much verbiage , was essentially ‘ No ’ . |
| 12 | The gesture is likely to be surrounded by much ballyhoo when it is officially announced in April . |
| 13 | One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day . |
| 14 | ‘ That probably sounds simple-minded to you , considering that you live surrounded by such things , but — ’ |
| 15 | I find Dr. Proudie and some of the characters such as Mr. Harding and Eleanor Bold rather pathetic and not worthy of sympathy — I do not know whether these are the sentiments Trollope hoped to arouse , but though I obviously dislike Mrs. Proudie as we are supposed to , I find that I can admire her and sympathise with her for having the bad luck to be surrounded by such people . |
| 16 | It is so unusual , most bands are surrounded by such security at gigs and anyone who wants to get near them is thrown out on their ear , ’ says their London based press officer , Mick Houghton . |
| 17 | They do n't wish it to happen , but it becomes an impossibility almost for them to stand up to their rights , and Mr talks about rights and no rights is in abstract and we all know how difficult it is then to stand up as a minority when you 're surrounded by that majority , but I 've had personal representations |
| 18 | To outsiders it would have looked incongruous : men in black zoot suits , all with fashionable elephant 's trunk hair styles , filling in a grave , surrounded by more men and women dressed in black . |
| 19 | The officer , surrounded by these noises , was moved and a little embarrassed . |
| 20 | David Damiani has an old photograph of him , a slightly pompous-looking man in a top hat surrounded by some Jerusalem worthies and an Englishman or two . |
| 21 | The issue of employment for mothers , and especially mothers of young children , is surrounded by some ambiguity both in policy and in popular attitudes ( Brown , 1989 ; Brannen and Moss , 1991 ) . |
| 22 | And in the faculty he was surrounded by several men of substance with much the same opinions though with less hardness in their advocacy . |
| 23 | I asked , delighted by these gifts , tatty as they were . |
| 24 | A firm must take reasonable steps to ensure that it does not make any personal recommendation to a private customer of an investment or investment agreement , or effect or arrange a discretionary transaction with or for an customer , unless the recommendation or transaction is suitable for him , having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer and other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or reasonably should be aware . |
| 25 | A firm must take all reasonable steps to ensure that it does not give investment advice to , nor effect , a discretionary transaction with or for , a private customer , unless that advice or transaction is suitable for him having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer or other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or ought reasonably to be aware . |
| 26 | The bleak prospect disclosed by this view of present and potential conflict situations is not relieved by the existence of any significant social movement which is clearly capable of diminishing the appeal of nationalism , or substituting a new and persuasive political ideal for that of the nation state . |
| 27 | The detainee making a request ‘ must be permitted to consult a solicitor as soon as is practicable except to the extent that delay is permitted by this section ’ . |
| 28 | The resulting knock-down sale at the end of the day was eagerly awaited by many people , who were able to buy a basket for 6d . |
| 29 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 30 | The ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) retained the governorships of the provinces of La Rioja , Jujuy and Santiago del Estero , but lost to small local conservative parties in ( i ) Chaco — won by José Ruiz Palacios , a former colonel who served as an Under-Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior under the previous military dictatorship ; ( ii ) Salta — won by former navy captain Roberto Ulloa , who had been the provincial governor under the military regime ; and ( iii ) Corrientes . |