Example sentences of "[noun] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1990 , P concluded that he could not cope with the mounting arrears under the mortgage , and his other debts . |
| 2 | Then the hairdresser , saying ‘ Now I 'll keep the hair out of your eyes ’ , gave John ‘ what he called a ‘ natural water wave ’ and stuck me with a net and brown cotton wool in my ears under the dryer . |
| 3 | The trial of Field Marshal Kesselring opened at ten o'clock on 10 February in the dark-panelled courtroom under the slogan ‘ La Legge e Uguale per Tutti ’ . |
| 4 | Far from welcoming the concept of the evolutionary ‘ tree ’ , zoologists and botanists resisted the idea that relationships were the product of an open-ended process of divergence under adaptive pressure . |
| 5 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 6 | Although the very name of the province derives from the promise of Emperor Leopold I that the immigrant Serbs would be given the right to elect their own vojvoda , or duke , the Habsburgs did not honour this pledge , and the area was incorporated into the military frontier under direct Habsburg control . |
| 7 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 8 | In my judgment , however , this is not of any importance as touching the liability of the defendant under his covenants . |
| 9 | The defendant under Rylands v. Fletcher can not be liable ad infinitum and in Blackburn J. 's formulation of the rule he ‘ is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape . ’ |
| 10 | The immunity of a defendant under the statute is illustrated by Collingwood v. Home and Colonial Stores Ltd . |
| 11 | The onus of proof is placed on the defendant under this section . |
| 12 | As I had mistakenly left my only pair of worn-in boots in Salford — I had been wearing them when I packed the kit , and changed into shoes to travel to North Africa — I now had blisters under the balls of both feet and another running from the top of my left heel right under the foot . |
| 13 | This has been demonstrated by the abuse of the SEA 's provisions for majority voting and harmonisation under Article 100A . |
| 14 | Apart from the obvious connotation that it puts the recipient under some moral obligation to purchase , it also serves as an advertising medium if the company logo is incorporated in the gift . |
| 15 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 16 | Research into compulsory competitive tendering under the Local Government Act 1988 has shown average savings of 6 per cent . |
| 17 | There have been far too many cases of abuse in which local authorities have contrived a system of competitive tendering under which only the direct service organisation could win because special conditions were imposed . |
| 18 | We used to bend the whiskers under the microscope with a dissecting needle and , having measured the thickness and radius of curvature very approximately we could estimate the breaking strain by simple beam theory . |
| 19 | In contrast to schools under local authority control , opted-out schools are able to appoint new staff promptly and in the manner they wish . |
| 20 | A more extreme example of very local publicity relates to the publication of proposals in relation to grant-maintained schools under sections 89(1) or 92(2) of the ERA . |
| 21 | A simple summary of the way finance is allocated annually to schools under LMS is given in Figure 1.1 . |
| 22 | to keep all aspects of the curriculum for maintained schools under review |
| 23 | That has something to do with the stress of constant innovation , and rather more with the fact that they and their work have been systematically devalued by a government determined to bring schools under political control . |
| 24 | The Fine Chemicals and Medicinals Groups continues to provide money to schools under the Small Grants Scheme ( up to the value of £500 ) for the purchase of equipment to carry out chemistry-related projects in schools . |
| 25 | ( 5 ) A pamphlet called Schools under Threat , designed as a handbook for the organisation of resistance to school closures , asserts that : — |
| 26 | Indeed , the pamphlet called Schools Under Threat makes an even broader assertion suggesting that schools are the centre of many urban as well as rural communities . |
| 27 | It is the first indication there are teething troubles with SSDs ' new powers to inspect private schools under the Children Act . |
| 28 | We are not suggesting that the tasks and skills children with severe learning difficulties are taught in schools under the new orthodoxy are of no value , or that they may not be useful to the children , either now or in later life . |
| 29 | The government proposes to set up a network of secondary schools under direct central control . |
| 30 | The National Union of Teachers fears that , because of its divisive potential , opting out will considerably weaken the educational system : ‘ What is proposed is really a means of reintroducing in a covert manner an elitist and centrally controlled system of direct grant schools on the lines of the grammar schools under the guise of increasing parental choice ’ . |