Example sentences of "[been] [adj] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have I been asleep under a hedge with a strange man not my husband ? |
| 2 | Appointing the FDP leader Walter Scheel as foreign minister and ably assisted by Egon Bahr , Brandt developed ‘ Ostpolitik ’ much more dramatically than had been possible under the Grand Coalition , in a situation where East-West détente was increasingly more welcome to the US and so need not endanger Western unity . |
| 3 | Would it have been different under a Labour government ? |
| 4 | Things may have been different under another Minister , or under the same one in happier and healthier days , but it seems doubtful . |
| 5 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
| 6 | With this freedom , much could happen which would have been impossible under Lanfranc . |
| 7 | If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any such claim provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Proviso ( a ) of Paragraph 2 of Section A of this policy . |
| 8 | Provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Exception ( c ) to Part A of this Policy . |
| 9 | Relations with the USA which had generally been amicable under the Bhutto government , underwent a serious crisis in October 1990 following the suspension of aid worth around US$570 million on grounds that Pakistan was engaged in a nuclear weapons programme [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 10 | Parma became renowned for its elegance during the reign of Maria Luigia , Napoleon 's second wife , daughter of the Emperor of Austria and mother of the King of Rome , when she was Duchess of Parma , Piacenza and Guastalla ; although it had already been famous under the Farnese and the Bourbons . |
| 11 | Such an abortion would have been illegal under the then existing law . |
| 12 | that 's a lie because you do n't wan na improve your lot because you 've been happy under the Confucius |
| 13 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 14 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 15 | It is extremely improbable where , as is normally the case , that majority is constituted by a single party which , ex hypothesi , has been successful under the existing voting system and therefore lacks any great incentive to change it . |
| 16 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 17 | Postgraduate education was excluded from eligibility for LEA discretionary grants ( it had been eligible under the 1962 Education Act ) . |
| 18 | If the precedent sale was at the request of the defendant , who later made the express promise of the guarantee , why should not the guarantee have been enforceable under Lampleigh v. Brathwait ? |
| 19 | Although it was found that the defendants had been at fault , Atkinson J. considered that , irrespective of this , the defendants would have been liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |