Example sentences of "[adv] being under " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one skate , on loan , to go round the block ( a distance of perhaps 500 yards ) the cost was one penny ; for two skates , two pennies ; any kid who took longer than 10 minutes ( thus being under suspicion of going further ) would be fined another two pence — or punched on the nose . |
| 2 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 3 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 4 | In post-war years MI5 has been remarkably unsuccessful at catching spies and traitors in our midst , going right back to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who in the summer of 1951 defected under the noses of MI5 despite supposedly being under surveillance . |
| 5 | a definition of the concept of a valuation , using such wording as : ‘ Fair market value is defined as the price at which shares would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller , neither being under compulsion to buy or sell , and both having reasonable knowledge of relevant facts and market conditions at the time . ’ ; |