Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new government was sworn in on Feb. 27 and contained only three new members , Odd Engstrom as Deputy Prime Minister ( a post which had not hitherto been filled under Carlsson ) , Allan Larsson as Finance Minister , and Eric Asbrink who entered the Cabinet as Deputy Finance Minister . |
| 2 | Some vertical agreements , such as exclusive distribution and exclusive purchasing , have been examined under this framework . |
| 3 | In his day , works on Evolution had been catalogued under Pre-Adamite Man . |
| 4 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 5 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 6 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 7 | For example , there have been a large number of initiatives by local authorities in recent years intended to improve the local economy , many of which have been undertaken under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 , to incur expenditure which in the authority 's opinion is in the interests of their area . |
| 8 | A farm in Norfolk has been placed under strict quarantine after the discovery of rhizomania or ‘ root madness ’ , which attacks sugar and other beet crops , reducing the yield . |
| 9 | But by the end of 1884 , 14 sites in England had been placed under the act , including the Arbor Low and Rollright stone circles and Silbury Hill , plus two in Scotland , and more followed in later years . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the ambush on William Black at his cottage was the work of an MRF unit which had been placed under the charge of the SAS specialist from Hereford . |
| 11 | Why , he asked himself , had his uncle , Earl Rivers , been placed under arrest ? |
| 12 | Such ties have been placed under great strain as the result of urbanization and the arising of great inequalities within society , inequalities which have been mirrored within society , inequalities which have been mirrored within many families . |
| 13 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 14 | ‘ The Alexander Palace was where Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra had been placed under house arrest by the revolutionaries . |
| 15 | The mine has since — with violent and fatal opposition — been placed under government control . |
| 16 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 17 | There were reports that the royal palace in the capital , Maseru , had on that day been surrounded by armed troops , and that the Army was patrolling the town , but Lekhanya on Feb. 22 denied that the King had been placed under house arrest . |
| 18 | By March 14 the entire homeland area had been placed under a state of emergency . |
| 19 | In mid-November it was reported that the country 's First Deputy Chairman of the Council of State ( Vice-President ) and Minister for the Armed Forces , Col. Iafai Camara , had been placed under house arrest , accused of supplying arms to Senegalese separatists . |
| 20 | The principal target of the order , however , appeared to be the territorial defence forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which had been placed under the control of the republican leaderships by legislation passed in Slovenia in October 1990 [ see p. 37790 ] and in Croatia on Nov. 8 , and a newly formed Croatian paramilitary police reserve known as the specijalci . |
| 21 | On Feb. 9 the US administration confirmed that some US$107,000,000 of US aid to Jordan had been placed under review . |
| 22 | The US Congress approved a bill on March 22 cutting off the US aid programme to Jordan , which had been placed under review in early February following King Hussein 's pro-Iraqi and anti-US speech [ see above ; p. 38024 ] . |
| 23 | On April 20 the Egyptian liberal opposition newspaper Al Wafd said that Abu Salih had been placed under house arrest for opposing the execution on April 16 of 20 army officers involved in a coup attempt . |
| 24 | Saadi , whose family dynasty had effectively run the province for over 40 years , had been dismissed as governor by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April 1991 and the province had been placed under a federal government trusteeship , following widespread evidence of official involvement in corruption and drug trafficking [ see p. 38144 ] . |
| 25 | The raids were centred on the towns of Nablus , Ramallah and El-Bireh , all of which had been placed under curfew beforehand . |
| 26 | All but one of those released have been placed under heavy restriction orders . |
| 27 | * Evidence is growing that BSE may be transmitted through the generations , after a third cow which has not received contaminated feed has been placed under a restriction order on the grounds of suspected infection . |
| 28 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 29 | All five have been placed under investigation . |
| 30 | He sometimes claimed Jewish blood , sometimes denied it , and there is evidence that feelings about how Jews had been treated under the Nazi regime troubled him after he had settled in Germany . |