Example sentences of "[vb past] been under [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been under a spell — she must have been . |
| 2 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 3 | He 'd been under the ice , under the water , for ten minutes or more . |
| 4 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 5 | But his wife , who 's the Mayor of Cirencester , said her husband had been under a lot of pressure recently . |
| 6 | This reticence extended even to the making of protests which was why , despite his feeble objections — he had been under no compulsion to go — he had been dragooned into the Navy in the first place . |
| 7 | Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless . |
| 8 | The Court judged that Carter had been under no duress when he authorized the amnesty and could have resorted to alternative methods to end the coup attempt . |
| 9 | No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods . |
| 10 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 11 | He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations . |
| 12 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 13 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 14 | I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it . |
| 15 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 16 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |
| 17 | While the history of the press has been marked by cleavages between the rulers and the ruled , radio had been under the control of colonial administrators . |
| 18 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 19 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 20 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 21 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 22 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 23 | By contrast , the regulation of the international economy in earlier periods had been under the domination of London , pivoting around London 's capital markets and the pound sterling which acted as the main form of international money . |
| 24 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 25 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |
| 26 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 27 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 28 | However , the allegation that Hazelwood had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the disaster was contradicted by a number of witnesses at his trial , which opened in Anchorage , Alaska , on Jan. 29 , 1990 , after a six-month delay . |
| 29 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 30 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |