Example sentences of "[pron] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I under arrest ? ’ |
| 2 | Any kind of overt optical distortion can only be an occasional isolated effect for a clearly marked purpose , such as rendering the subjective experience of someone under stress or drunk or dreaming . |
| 3 | The due process of law could be a bit of an ass when you arrested someone under age . |
| 4 | He fights back like someone under orders ; he never concedes the thrill of revenge or the trembling orgasm of blood . |
| 5 | Agrippa , Angus , his hired assassins , or someone under orders from the arch murderer at Royston . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , and Miss Hardbroom , I 've just remembered , there is a frog in the pond and it really is someone under enchantment . |
| 7 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
| 8 | wages cos we 've been giving ourselves under wages over the last |
| 9 | ‘ We put ourselves under pressure , which you do when you have n't played together , ’ said Laughton . |
| 10 | In some cases subsidence damage will have come to light when a property is being sold and we may find ourselves under pressure to resolve the claim quickly to allow the sale to proceed . |
| 11 | Even if the Academy is ‘ allowed ’ to meet , we 'll find ourselves under house arrest . ’ |
| 12 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 13 | On March 2 USC leaders held talks with members of the Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ) , which under Col. Omar Sheiss controlled areas in the south . |
| 14 | Plastics are ‘ cooperative ’ in this respect ; one can often make a pilot moulding out of clear polystyrene , which under stress emits a visible ‘ scream ’ in polarised light , to test where the forces are destructively concentrated . |
| 15 | We had referred to the rather disturbing politics of The Times , which under Geoffrey Dawson favoured appeasement of the dictators . |
| 16 | The SGA has no provisions implying warranties as to title or quiet possession into such contracts , but s 7 of the SGSA implies certain warranties as to the right to transfer possession into a " contract for the hire of goods " ( which under s 6 of the SGSA is defined as a contract of bailment by way of hire for a consideration of any nature ) . |
| 17 | The Academic Division is responsible for servicing the General Board of the Faculties ( which under Council is responsible for the academic administration of the University ) and some 13 standing committees , 16 faculty boards ( and a variety of board committees ) , 15 inter-faculty and similar committees , and the Libraries Board and its committees . |
| 18 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |
| 19 | The Government is introducing competitive tendering for leisure facilities which under Labour is costing the City nearly £7 million . |
| 20 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 21 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 22 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 23 | The net assets of the Company , as stated in the balance sheet on page 18 , are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and , in our opinion , on that basis there did not exist at 31 December 1992 a financial situation which under Section 40(1) of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 would require the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company . |
| 24 | To put it another way , the risk which under section 20 passes with property ( i.e. which falls upon the owner ) does not include the risk of loss or damage due to the other party 's negligence . |
| 25 | Assuming the purchaser obtains the relevant authorities from its shareholders , it will make the offer to the shareholders to subscribe for shares by issuing a provisional nil paid allotment letter which under Stock Exchange rules must be open for acceptance for a period of at least 21 days . |
| 26 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 27 | In such tests there is always a control product or pack , the behaviour of which under market conditions is known . |
| 28 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 29 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 30 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |