Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | As between themselves , the purchaser and the vendor are bound under the terms of the sale agreement by the decisions of the expert , but the provisions in the sale agreement do not prevent the aggrieved party , whether it be the purchaser or the vendor , from attempting to bring a claim against the expert if it can be shown that such party has suffered loss under the normal principles of the law of negligence ( see Arenson v Casson Bechman Rutley & Co [ 1977 ] AC 405 ) . |
| 2 | The Council of EC Social Affairs Ministers has agreed concessions under which the UK has been allowed to opt out of the proposed EC Directive which imposes a maximum working week of 48 hours . |
| 3 | G M B has brought cases under the equal pay directive and the enquir acquired rights directive . |
| 4 | This action , which has seen a 22% reduction in the workforce in the past twelve months , has brought costs under control and the recent devaluation of the Italian Lira is bringing new export opportunities . |
| 5 | The UK government has issued FRNs under the name of variable-rate gilts . |
| 6 | The issue was referred up to Joint Industrial Council level and a meeting has taken place under the Chairmanship of Mr. Peter Smith , Q.C . |
| 7 | The emerging alliance between health authorities and general practitioners , and the stimulus offered by fundholders , has put hospitals under pressure and has started to move resources in the direction of primary care . |
| 8 | Either identical particles are fermions , which means that their wavefunction has to change sign under interchange , or they are bosons , in which case they have the even simpler property that their wavefunction is completely unaltered by an interchange . |
| 9 | Of course , a man may have more than one razor , and in tidying up for departure he may forget that he has left pyjamas under his pillow , but the impression of the bedroom and the bathroom conflicted with the kitchen . |
| 10 | It has delegated authority under the Consolidated Regulations to grant such exemptions . |
| 11 | Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) . |
| 12 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 13 | This is the first time a unit trust company has had to suspend funds under the Financial Services Act 's pricing regulations , which oblige it to cease trading once an error is suspected . |
| 14 | While the rest of the City has had to relinquish self-regulation under the Financial Services Act , the Panel has continued as a non-statutory body . |
| 15 | Last year he took home something in the region of $60 million : this year he will have to find room under the bed for 65 . |
| 16 | The typical picture in such industries was one in which international oil companies , having secured concessions under which they risked their capital , discovered and developed the resource . |
| 17 | He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies . |
| 18 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ Ruth suggested wryly at the same time uncharitably thinking that Maria Luisa must have put Fernando under such a terrible strain over something that had nothing to do with him . |
| 19 | Flett , an Orcadian , had taken medical and natural history degrees at Edinburgh , having studied geology under J. Geikie . |
| 20 | It will be noted in that case that the assignee , having obtained relief under the statute , was in the position of one who had the protection of the bankruptcy laws . |
| 21 | However , Local Authorities do not at present have delegated powers under Regulation A13 to grant relaxations on fire safety matters for buildings which exceed 7,000 m3 and any such application is forwarded to the Secretary of State for a decision . |
| 22 | It was only the stupidity of Treasury rules that had stopped BR under Labour and Tory governments going after private capital . |
| 23 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 24 | It was as if Andrus 's legs had given way under him . |
| 25 | The new plan was formulated in consultation with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which in September 1991 had frozen payments under an April 1991 loan agreement [ see p. 38162 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ I gave away a Moses basket to my sister-in-law without realising he had planked £1,000 under the mattress . |
| 27 | The Cabinet , Financial and Home Secretaries were all transferred , while some of those civil servants who had suffered demotion under the Congress ( I ) administration were rehabilitated . |
| 28 | I 've seen strikes under Labour . |
| 29 | James had done training under Dr John Conolly at Hanwell , the Middlesex County pauper lunatic asylum , and to him the insane were the most pitiable of all human flotsam . |
| 30 | Some people had written dates under their names and sometimes there were short messages . |