Example sentences of "[vb past] be under " in BNC.

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1 The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing .
2 He 'd been under the ice , under the water , for ten minutes or more .
3 She 'd been under a spell — she must have been .
4 For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ?
5 erm , the one thing that I thought was under person who is who is talking he 's got ta be I think he 's got ta be firm so that the person understands that erm that what is required but he 's also got ta be fair at the same time has n't he ?
6 I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’
7 The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial .
8 The Brigade positions had been under attack for the past four days and Nos. 3 , 4 , 6 , and 45 Royal Marine Commando had been having their share of casualties .
9 No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods .
10 Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group .
11 Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) .
12 He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations .
13 But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time .
14 At issue was a boundary question between Venezuela and British Guiana which had been under discussion for some time .
15 The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years .
16 The Christian town of Zahle , which had been under siege by leftist militias , was now open to visitors and traffic , the Syrians cooperating openly with the local Phalangist defenders .
17 I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it .
18 But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time .
19 Both of these measures had been under discussion for a number of years , and but for the war there is every reason to believe they would have been enacted earlier .
20 Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran .
21 The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true .
22 The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results .
23 The Poles of the Prussian marches had been under pressure to Germanise themselves for centuries .
24 With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so .
25 All the land out there had been under water once .
26 ‘ A particular blackspot was the port of Kaffa in the Crimea , which had been under siege by the Mongols .
27 We also felt that Zephyr had been under pressure due to her immense popularity and had been given little opportunity to show off the gentle side of her nature — in the same way the more extrovert patients had dominated the evening while those of shy and retiring nature had slightly missed out .
28 Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them .
29 The Company had been under an obligation to complete the line by 15 August 1905 , but obtained an extension of time when it was discovered that the power supply from Beckenham would not be ready until I April 1906 .
30 The payments in question could be brought within the wording of Reg 20 and it followed that MGN had been under an obligation to deduct tax at source .
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