Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a drafting meeting yesterday and discussions are under way in a Council of Ministers working group and various committees of the European Parliament . |
| 2 | Compulsory labour involves working at a site designated by the authorities , where prisoners are under surveillance and restricted in their movements . |
| 3 | One method may be through variations in government expenditure and taxation since these flows are under the direct control of the authorities . |
| 4 | He replies that investigations are under way . |
| 5 | Investigations are under way and neither the equipment nor the process concerned will be restarted until the cause of the incident is determined . |
| 6 | Investigations are under way . |
| 7 | Forensic investigations are under way for clues about the five-strong gang . |
| 8 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 9 | The staff members they deploy in the field to identify projects are under pressure from their senior management to turn such targets into reality . |
| 10 | Several pilot projects are under way to show that women can be persuaded to attend for screening and that lower than average bone mass will be found in some . |
| 11 | The Court held that the English rule that interim injunctions are not available against the Crown was a barrier to the ‘ effective protection ’ of European rights in English courts , and that English courts are under an obligation to remove such barriers . |
| 12 | It follows that the British courts are under a statutory obligation to apply to Community legal texts the Community methods of interpretation as developed by the European Court ; they would be under Community law even without the statutory provision . |
| 13 | The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it . |
| 14 | My point is that , in general , the courts are under an injunction not to give custodial sentences to offenders under 21 . |
| 15 | We recognise that local authorities are under a duty to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service and that they may wish to stock a range of material about homosexuality , dealing with homosexual themes or written by homosexual authors . |
| 16 | Local authorities are under a duty to provide a minimum of educational facilities and the courts will decide what this minimum is . |
| 17 | At the time of writing 36 nuclear plants have been installed , 28 of which are PWRs , and 23 further PWRs are under construction . |
| 18 | A The lupins are under attack from Powdery Mildew . |
| 19 | Action was promised as the minister said , in October nineteen ninety two by the former chancellor when the Bingham report was published , but I believe that these proposals are under the bear minimum requested by Bingham and they hardly live up er to the er minister 's announcement at the beginning of his speech . |
| 20 | Plans are under way , it was confirmed yesterday , to build a home for him , evidently on his own instructions , here in the capital of the so-called Republic of Transkei . |
| 21 | Plans are under way to license the killing of wolverines and eagles . |
| 22 | However , they are agreed on the fact that their major contribution is in Stage 2 , where both the decisions and implementation of spending plans are under way . |
| 23 | Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years . |
| 24 | Plans are under way to develop a package of special ‘ top up ’ courses in time for the 1994/95 academic year . |
| 25 | Plans are under way to have a Fun Day around about mid-summers day — based in the hall there will be day-time attractions and a Bar-B-Que and dance in the evening . |
| 26 | Supt Alan Saddler told a meeting of the town 's police and community consultative group that plans are under discussion to train non-officers for inquiry desk duties to release police for beat duties . |
| 27 | Plans are under way for a memorial , probably a cairn , to commemorate both RAF and Canadian Air Force bomber squadrons which flew from RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire during World War Two . |
| 28 | Darlington is on the brink of unveiling a multimillion pound shopping complex and ambitious plans are under way to pedestrianise parts of the town . |
| 29 | Plans are under consideration for an extended European League which would include two teams in Germany , one in Spain , one in Paris or Milan and two in the UK . |
| 30 | ICE also own a number of properties in nearby Nelson Street and plans are under way to improve those , possibly housing the London Road Development Association which has been created to oversee the regeneration of the nearby shopping area . |