Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you 've been under pressure lately , try Seven Seas Vitamin B complex , which cost £2.99 for 60 capsules or Vitalert For Stress with B-vitamins , £2.89/30 . |
| 2 | Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd . |
| 3 | Ever since she 's been under threat of eviction . |
| 4 | If she 's been under stress . |
| 5 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 6 | When Aziru sent his Khabiris against us , finally , we had been under siege for three years . |
| 7 | ‘ There are times this season when we have been under pressure and coped well , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ We have been under enemy attack since we arrived here six days ago , with practically no sleep . |
| 9 | They 've been under scrutiny since they met — a considerable strain for any relationship , and doubly so for one as close as theirs . |
| 10 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 11 | The green staff worked miracles to get the course fit for play after it had been under water from Thursday night 's storms . |
| 12 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 13 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 14 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 15 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 16 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 17 | He had been under attack from right-wing politicians for some time , in particular for signing an appeal by a wide range of opposition forces calling for greater democracy in Hungary . |
| 18 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 19 | He had been under pressure to water down the doctrine of collegiality . |
| 20 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 21 | He liked to give the impression he had been under fire — of a sort . |
| 22 | It did not disturb him that he had been under observation ; he was not accustomed to deprecate what he was , or to undervalue it . |
| 23 | It 's been under wraps for weeks , but now the political biography everyone 's talking about has finally arrived . |