Example sentences of "we [be] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It means , ’ said Bramble wearily , ‘ that we are under siege from the great detectives . |
| 2 | ‘ We are under instruction not to confirm or deny anything , ’ she said . |
| 3 | We must learn to see our anxiety symptoms as signals that we are under stress and learn to cope with and control these signals through our efforts and not simply mask or try to ignore them with tranquillizers . |
| 4 | ‘ I imagine , Professor Summerfield , ’ his voice floated back to them , ‘ that it 's because we are under surveillance , and in any case we can only go in one direction — oh . ’ |
| 5 | A patrol car spots us and its occupants make it clear we are under observation . |
| 6 | I think it is very important that people should see that we are under Cabinet government . |
| 7 | We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh , but we are under house arrest . |
| 8 | The contradictions remain but they only become tension and conflict when we are under pressure to perform more than one role at a time . |
| 9 | Concede goals on the break and seem incapable of surviving the few moments in a match that we are under pressure . |
| 10 | Mr Wallace , based at the Granada headquarters in Bedford , said : ‘ Like a lot of businesses , we are under pressure at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | Referring to the current recession , Mr Wallace said : ‘ Like at lot of other businesses we are under pressure at the moment . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're under attack , ’ Defries said . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're under attack and we 're a hundred metres up . ’ |
| 14 | We 're under attack again . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're under attack . |
| 16 | We know at the moment we 're under boundary changes . |
| 17 | We 're under starters orders for the National Hunt season . |
| 18 | Very quick , erm for the new route to already got all his plates for Munich , erm we 're under negotiations with |
| 19 | Norman Costain , secretary of Parkfield Cricket Club in Wallasey Central Park , said : ‘ We were under siege . |
| 20 | I started the engine , got up the anchor , and we were under way . |
| 21 | As we strolled away , however , we had to hold our hands out at arm 's length , as if we were under arrest , to show the hawk that we were n't holding a juicy lump of rabbit . |
| 22 | Several times the steering wheel took on a wild life of its own as we crashed into an unnoticed pot-hole , and the windscreen wipers stuttered against the rain of dust and small stones that hurtled against the car in handfuls : it was if we were under fire . |
| 23 | When we were not at school , we were under canvas , often as not , and far from the crack-crazed cities of Europe . |
| 24 | Out of kindness to me , the army had allowed them to travel without permission from the Algerians , though we were under orders not to enter Niger without confirmation of clearance . |
| 25 | ‘ We were under pressure from the Charity Commission to sort ourselves out and she said that she had done charity accounts before , ’ said Penny Boyd . |