Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [vb pp] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | A farm in Norfolk has been placed under strict quarantine after the discovery of rhizomania or ‘ root madness ’ , which attacks sugar and other beet crops , reducing the yield . |
| 2 | But by the end of 1884 , 14 sites in England had been placed under the act , including the Arbor Low and Rollright stone circles and Silbury Hill , plus two in Scotland , and more followed in later years . |
| 3 | The funds of the NHS have been put under further strain , in addition to the pressures of rising demand , by a number of other factors . |
| 4 | Bernard Buckley had been trapped under rubble after an explosion destroyed the house , but James Sutherland had pretended to the emergency services that there was no-one inside , it was claimed in court . |
| 5 | Since nationalisation under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1964 , the exploitation of all coal reserves within the United Kingdom has been brought under public control . |
| 6 | On Feb. 9 the US administration confirmed that some US$107,000,000 of US aid to Jordan had been placed under review . |
| 7 | Nearly 14 tonnes of gold deposited in the United Kingdom had been sold under a February 1967 Soviet-UK agreement to pay compensation to UK citizens for property which had been lost during the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states [ see p. 21882 ] . |
| 8 | It is believed that chimpanzee colonies in Western Africa have been put under severe strain by live export trade for medical research . |
| 9 | The early April agreements came in marked contrast to the generally poor atmosphere during March , when a visit to Washington by Toshiki Kaifu , the Japanese Prime Minister , had produced a tentative agreement on the sale of supercomputers to Japan [ ibid. ] — the first of three major trade areas for which Japan had been named under the " Super 301 " rule . |
| 10 | Before then the office came alive with two pieces of news : Sniffy Wilson had been captured and Marilyn Duxbody had been charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 11 | Plans to commission a monument to the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin have been abandoned under pressure from the Bundestag . |
| 12 | ‘ The Alexander Palace was where Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra had been placed under house arrest by the revolutionaries . |
| 13 | On April 20 the Egyptian liberal opposition newspaper Al Wafd said that Abu Salih had been placed under house arrest for opposing the execution on April 16 of 20 army officers involved in a coup attempt . |
| 14 | John has been put under psychologist because he was slow at school right ? |
| 15 | Its research institutes in Ulm , Berlin and Frankfurt have been put under the centralised control of the Daimler holding company in Stuttgart . |