Example sentences of "[been] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inquiry at Linlithgow Sheriff Court heard that the pensioner was supposed to have been under supervision when the second fall happened . |
| 2 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 3 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 4 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |
| 5 | Ever since she 's been under threat of eviction . |
| 6 | This ancient wetland has been under threat ever since the £50 million Hereford Eastern bypass was announced in 1988 . |
| 7 | THOUSANDS of people will take to the streets of Glasgow tomorrow in support of the Albion axle factory , which has been under threat since the financial collapse of its Dutch parent company last month . |
| 8 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 9 | The United Provinces , as they were then known , had been under Habsburg rule and began a 40-year war with Spain for their national independence in the 1570s . |
| 10 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 11 | Work started on rebuilding utilities and refineries , and the government began administering the operation of the country 's ports , which had previously been under militia control . |
| 12 | Dave Punshon , Age Concern 's chief officer , recently expressed fears that the scheme would have to close and its staff have been under redundancy notice since Christmas to finish on March 31 . |
| 13 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 14 | Srebrenica has been under Serb siege since the Bosnian civil war began 11 months ago . |
| 15 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 16 | Contract discussions have been under way since early this year , according to West German sources . |
| 17 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 18 | The combined numbers of these three are perhaps 100 or 200 at the most , although an urgent conservation programme has been under way since 1980 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 21 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 24 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 , he explained , under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 25 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 26 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 27 | But the essence of re-engineering — taking a strategic view of the component functions of a business , stripping some out and streamlining others with inter-disciplinary teams and more effective use of technology — has long been under way in a number of companies . |
| 28 | Because they were effecting the repair work themselves it had taken longer to complete than if they had let the Yard do it , but even so the tow had been under way again shortly after noon on the third day . |
| 29 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 30 | In early March 1989 it was reported that the UK , Italy , Netherlands and Spain had agreed to study costings for a joint army Light Attack Helicopter ( LAH ) project ; a Franco-German joint project had been under way since late 1987 ( see p. 35665 ) . |