Example sentences of "[verb] by " 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 its tragic grandeur it seems to forestall by a century some of the finest thoughts of Sibelius . ) |
| 3 | In 1964 11,204 passengers disembarked by aeroplane . |
| 4 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 5 | The authorities claimed they were conspiring to overthrow the government , which is dominated by a different community , the Moors , but offered no evidence to substantiate this claim . |
| 6 | These dreadful events took place in the south of Sri Lanka , which is dominated by the majority Sinhalese population . |
| 7 | The Northern state became wholly dominated by protestant loyalists and became extremely coercive in its dealings with the substantial catholic — nationalist remnant within its borders . |
| 8 | McAllister ( 1980 ) describes that political culture as traditionalist , and dominated by clientelism , parochialism , local attachment , and ascription : politicians were elected on the basis of local reputation and solely with reference to local issues . |
| 9 | The class structure of Northern Ireland is predictably dominated by protestants . |
| 10 | The South is not a classless society , but its class nature has been well hidden in consciousness and dominated by the procedures of the capitalist-democratic process . |
| 11 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 12 | The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church . |
| 13 | The influence of the second Vatican Council ( 1962–5 ) has enabled theological discourse to become dominated by non-hierarchical models of the church and a generally eirenic theology in which all the churches in Ireland share . |
| 14 | The impetus to create Eureka Audiovisual was the recognition that television and cinema in Europe were dominated by non-European programmes . |
| 15 | The skyline of Brignorth , dominated by Telford 's church tower , provides a backdrop for this view of Class 59 No 59001 Yeoman endeavour leaving the Severn Valley terminus with a train for Kidderminster on the SVR diesel weekend in May 1988 . |
| 16 | The history of the past 30 years in brewing has been dominated by the emergence of a handful of giant national companies — Bass , Allied , Whitbread , GrandMet/Watney , Courage , and Scottish & Newcastle — driven by a need to maximise profit rather than concentrating on high quality products that also generate a good return . |
| 17 | In a region dominated by Whitbread ( aka Fremlins ) and Allied ( aka Friary Meux ) , who both prefer to supply their own guest beers to tenants , getting into the pubs is no easy matter for a micro . |
| 18 | Not far away is the village of Buis les Baronnies , dominated by a steep hill topped by a spectacular blade of rock similar to those of the Dentelles . |
| 19 | The former was dominated by a single mode of utterance , as in the traditional literary genres , the lyric , epic , and tragedy . |
| 20 | All this might well be accomplished in the comparatively open-ended context of adult or continuing education , which is not dominated by the teleology of the examination system . |
| 21 | It might also become dominated by Marxists and cultural materialists , but not inevitably so ; academic sociology offers points of comparison here . |
| 22 | Never less than thoroughly fascinating , the production is dominated by Ian McKellen 's extraordinary Iago , a performance which feels like a shifting palimpsest of impersonations . |
| 23 | Historically tea has been a fairly dull market , dominated by trade interests — two arguments against the London Fox 's efforts to excite interest in a tea futures contract . |
| 24 | If , further , he feels that the free market policies and values embraced by Mrs Thatcher have done much to create a divided nation , dominated by Pharisees , he should feel free to offer his opinion . |
| 25 | Zenith is the last US-owned TV manufacturer in a market dominated by Japan . |
| 26 | The conference was dominated by pragmatist liberals . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not dominated by emotions . |
| 28 | The Opole meeting was dominated by elderly party members , who refused to talk about such problems as names , new programmes , and new membership laws . |
| 29 | The rest of the stock market was dominated by Ferranti 's hectic return , with Seaq putting volume at a remarkable 115 million shares . |
| 30 | Yesterday 's debate was dominated by black sections supporters who derided the compromise notion of a mixed-race ‘ black and white minstrels ’ society . |