Example sentences of "been under [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |
| 2 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 3 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 4 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 5 | At issue was a boundary question between Venezuela and British Guiana which had been under discussion for some time . |
| 6 | The Commissioner had , according to Namaliu , been under observation for some time before acting on impulse and alone . |
| 7 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
| 8 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 9 | The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia . |