Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [be] 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 | INSIDE A TEXAN hangar no less than four new-build Grumman F3F–3 biplane fighters are under construction for museums and owners in the USA . |
| 3 | Moreover , historians who are teaching computer methods are under the same pressures as their counterparts in humanities computing departments to justify their activities . |
| 4 | The role of families and of informal neighbourhood care is much more widely acknowledged and various projects to support the carers and stimulate neighbourhood networks are under way . |
| 5 | I wonder if any Golf Monthly readers could explain to me why golf manufacturers and club professionals are under the illusion that left-handed people do not want to play golf ; or , if they do , then they are able and willing to use right-handed clubs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 8 | Never before in the CIA 's history had so many current and former intelligence operatives been under investigation , and the agency was further embarrassed by evidence on the monitoring of Sandinista government communications with seven Democratic congressmen who were critical of Reagan administration policy in Central America . |
| 9 | Already more than 100 management agreements are under discussion and the number is expected to increase dramatically now that the guidelines are in force . |
| 10 | During his lifetime the suggestion was treated with hostility in Australia but migration schemes were under way by the 1920s . |
| 11 | The need for Government action to ensure that sufficient ships remain on the British register to meet defence needs is under consideration . |
| 12 | PTA and ‘ Klea ’ have already crossed that hurdle ; others such as Katalco , ‘ Melinar , ’ Watercare and Forest Products are under consideration . |
| 13 | → String manufacturers are under no real pressure to provide standard gauges , Martin . |
| 14 | The community workshops are under threat from new government arrangements for funding . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In addition , afforestation programmes are under way in many nations to augment the rapidly diminishing natural forest resource and in some cases to halt environmental degradation . |
| 17 | When one of the women 's social service homes was under threat of closure they suggested , " Do n't close yours . |
| 18 | Major privatization programmes are under way not only in the UK but also in countries as different as France , Japan , Taiwan , Mexico , Poland , and Hungary . |
| 19 | Cases of contaminated apple juice are on the increase because apple growers are under pressure to use fewer chemicals , it was claimed today . |
| 20 | Particular emphasis will be placed on a limited number of field study areas where nature conservation resources are under a variety of land use pressures . |
| 21 | District councillors are under no illusion that the extra cash they are providing is enough to solve the problem entirely . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Retrospective conversion of earlier catalogue records is under way . |
| 24 | The danger is still there , however , especially if colleagues in adult services are under the impression that all who work with children are slightly fragile — and ‘ potty ’ with it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Community care for drug and alcohol misusers is under pressure , reports Bob Cervi |
| 27 | Several pilot projects are under way to show that women can be persuaded to attend for screening and that lower than average bone mass will be found in some . |
| 28 | Expensive new capital projects were under consideration including a vast new British Library to replace the Georgian splendour of the British Museum . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |