Example sentences of "been under [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Provinces , as they were then known , had been under Habsburg rule and began a 40-year war with Spain for their national independence in the 1570s . |
| 2 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 3 | Srebrenica has been under Serb siege since the Bosnian civil war began 11 months ago . |
| 4 | On April 4 Bor , which had been under SPLA control since April 1989 , fell to a government force of some 2,000 men , which was armed with heavy artillery against the SPLA 's lighter arms . |
| 5 | The State of Qatar became independent in 1971 , having previously been under United Kingdom protection . |