Example sentences of "[being] under [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Walton J. referred on two occasions to the plaintiff being under a mistaken belief that they were bound to pay the duties it is clear from his findings that in relation to at least the last three payments they were in considerable doubt as to their liability and he said , at p. 745 : |
| 2 | As the courts have not articulated more precisely the content of the duty to act in the interests of the company we will continue to describe directors as being under a duty to maximise profits . |
| 3 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , it 's like being under a |
| 4 | Indeed in November 1979 the Guardian had published a wholly imaginary story about 900 miles of railway being under the axe . |
| 5 | Whereas in European antiquity the days of the week were regarded as being under the influence of the principal heavenly bodies — Saturn-day , Sun-day , Moon-day , and so on — for the Maya each day was itself divine . |
| 6 | It is fitted with the Automatic Vacuum for the L & NW , and the Westinghouse brake for the Caledonian , the pipes running along the sides , under the frames ; and Peters & Co 's American system of steam heating — an inner tube filled with acetate of soda , and heated by steam from the engine sent through an outer one , the amount of heat being under the control of the guard . |
| 7 | He went missing one night when she was sleeping soundly across the hut from me , being under the mistaken impression that he and his crew had been grounded because of an electrical fault in their aircraft . |
| 8 | General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore ! |
| 9 | There are also a number of cases where the Commission has held that the banning of meetings and procession for a restricted period because of fears for public safety , such bans being under the democratic laws of a State , were not in contravention of the Convention . |
| 10 | I ca n't find anyone who actually likes this offset idea , and you really do n't want to spend your playing career justifying why your instrument looks so wacky ; left to hang around the user 's neck , it does actually rest neck-up , as promised , although I would think that this has a fair bit to do with the strap button being under the top horn and slightly back towards the body . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had already received three written warnings ( one for fighting , one for being under the influence of drugs while in charge of a wood-turning lathe , and one for lateness ) and either had to leave or face the sack . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Law also charged the government with being under the control of Redmond : |
| 15 | The other variable which was not patient defined and which contributed to the multiple regression model was being under the care of a general practitioner with a special interest in diabetes . |
| 16 | This island has a liberty of brewing whisky without being under the necessity of paying the usual excise duty to the Government . " |
| 17 | This island has a liberty of brewing whisky without being under the necessity of paying the usual excise duty to the Government . " |
| 18 | First , the outside air , being in a space bigger than ten by ten by twenty ( I 've measured it out ) , being under the stars , and breathing in wonderful wonderful , even though it was damp and misty , wonderful air . |
| 19 | ‘ There was something subduing in the influence of that silent and solemn and awful presence ( the Jungfrau ) … one had the sense of being under the brooding contemplation of spirit , not an inert mass of rocks and ice — a spirit which had looked down , through the slow drift of ages , upon a million vanished races of men , and judged them ; and would judge a million more — and still be there , watching , unchanged and unchangeable after all life should be gone and the earth had become a vacant desolation . ’ |
| 20 | It has been held that the term relates to being under the influence of intoxicating liquor , and the offence is not capable of commission where the intoxication is induced by a substance other than alcohol , such as a solvent . |
| 21 | The presence of foreign armies — including their female personnel — in Saudi Arabia was not a development with which the more conservative elements were entirely comfortable , some of them describing the country with its Holy Places as being under the occupation of unbelievers . |
| 22 | Almost like being under the floor . ’ |
| 23 | Changes in hiring forms and in master-to-man relationships tending towards the predomination of the wage form in both agriculture and manufacturing resulted in only a part of the labourer 's life , his working hours , being under the control of his employer . |
| 24 | erm I feel much safer with that that the erm than our schools being under the control of the Department of Education , who will be very difficult to influence . |
| 25 | Sometimes this is difficult to state so that , for example , although the common law did refer to the owner being under an obligation to hire out goods of a reasonable fitness , the level of care associated with this obligation was uncertain , being mainly the product of dictum rather than decision . |