Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [was/were] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention was focused particularly on France , where state aid to the Thomson and Bull electronics groups was under examination [ see pp. 38156 ; 38472 ] . |
| 2 | The restaurant and bar operations were under the control of the Food and Beverage Manager , who oversaw the activities of the Head Waiter , Chef and bar staff . |
| 3 | During his lifetime the suggestion was treated with hostility in Australia but migration schemes were under way by the 1920s . |
| 4 | Everywhere in the Western world social security budgets were under scrutiny , not to see if they were too meagre but to see if they could be reduced . |
| 5 | But Germany has been peaceful because the East Prussians were under our control . |
| 6 | When one of the women 's social service homes was under threat of closure they suggested , " Do n't close yours . |
| 7 | In Britain road ‘ improvement ’ schemes to widen roads and remove traffic bottlenecks were under way by the 1930's in order to allow greater volumes and speeds of traffic . |
| 8 | It is reasonable , however , for Thompson to ask why such a degree of compartmentalisation of objectives should be presumed to have been the case in 1812 , when war had been largely continuous over twenty years , when trade unions were under the interdict of the Combination Acts , when the hand-loom weavers and knitters were suffering a catastrophic drop in earnings and when high food prices were producing widespread and severe hunger . |
| 9 | Expensive new capital projects were under consideration including a vast new British Library to replace the Georgian splendour of the British Museum . |
| 10 | The path to the abbey ruins was under water , but I managed to keep dry by sidling along the edge , holding on to a fence . |
| 11 | Pakistan denied that any missile sites were under construction on her soil and pointed out that the Soviet Union had herself been supplying arms and building airfields and other military installations in countries in the neighbourhood of Pakistan . |
| 12 | If nothing other than the Process and Working Directories were under LIBRARY$DISK : [ LSLIVE ] , ( ie. none of the storage directories were under this root ) then you could use the simpler BACKUP command : |
| 13 | If nothing other than the Process and Working Directories were under LIBRARY$DISK : [ LSLIVE ] , ( ie. none of the storage directories were under this root ) then you could use the simpler BACKUP command : |
| 14 | In Britain , although no one except Beaverbrook Newspapers were under any illusions that war was imminent , there was still surprise among German and Italian nationals by then resident in Britain that Conservative ministers ( led by Sir John Anderson , Home Secretary ) interned all aliens without distinction of friend , refugee and enemy , shamelessly abetted by the press of the Fascist-sympathiser , Rothermere . |
| 15 | During 1983 ten oil , gas and pipeline developments were approved , and six new offshore oil fields , one condensate field and three gas fields were under development . |
| 16 | Now the sentinel submarines were under way again , gently manoeuvring to take up positions alongside Taureg . |
| 17 | Well planned pilot schemes were under way , but more was needed on budgetary delegation and GP involvement . |
| 18 | Reports over the previous four months that unity negotiations were under way among the various political heirs of Kwame Nkrumah were confirmed by an announcement on Sept. 10 that three Nkrumahist parties , the National Independence Party ( NIP ) , the People 's Heritage Party ( PHP ) , and the unregistered Popular Party for Democracy and Development ( PPDD ) , had agreed to an electoral alliance , pledging themselves to support a single presidential candidate and one parliamentary candidate in each of the country 's 200 constituencies . |
| 19 | A TRIPLE bid from Cleveland for City Challenge funds was under way yesterday . |
| 20 | This may have been due to the fact that preparations for hosting the 1966 World Cup Finals were under way and there were fears that , as the English game came under greater international scrutiny , football hooliganism could damage the nation 's prestige . |
| 21 | Danielle Mitterrand , head of the privately-funded human rights group France-Libertes , told reporters searches were under way for more bodies in the debris of the hospital at Raniya after the air raids on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 22 | Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy , who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon ! |
| 23 | reported that delivery of the computer was expected shortly and that the writing of the software programs was under way . |
| 24 | Mr Widmer said the company could not afford these unpaid debts and claimed the 1,300 Caldaire employees were under threat because of the debt . |
| 25 | When Thorneycroft took over in July 1962 , the Defence Votes were under pressure again , and pruning was once more the order of the day . |
| 26 | The left arm bones were under the thorax . |
| 27 | According to the London Times ( 3 November 1987 ) , at that time more than a hundred party members were under investigation , and scores more had been arrested . |