Example sentences of "has be under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Saatchi has filled the twin role of chairman and chief executive for several years , but Mr Louis-Dreyfus 's appointment is designed to bring in financial skills at a senior level at a time when the company 's business has been under pressure . |
| 2 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 3 | Spain in particular , with its relatively large , shambling army ( a relic from the Franco era ) cut off behind the Pyrenees , has been under pressure from NATO to put more money into its air force and navy . |
| 4 | Bowlby has been under pressure ever since the Cheltenham Gold Cup , over his riding tactics on Golden Freeze , coincidentally brought down at The Chair in Thursday 's John Hughes Memorial Chase here . |
| 5 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Breedt has been under pressure in his position but the Springbok selectors have learned from the many selection mistakes made by Pierre Berbizier with France this season . |
| 8 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 9 | It 's one of those things that we think lies dormant , and can flare up if the patient has been under strain or run down . |
| 10 | A massive scheme for the Hong Shui River in Guanxi province has been under study since the 1950s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The report from the three wise men concludes : ‘ The significance of Super-SARA , from a Community point of view , has already been severely eroded during the years that the project has been under discussion and it is expected that its significance will be yet further undermined before the completion of the project . ’ |
| 13 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 14 | Since 1980 a proposal has been under discussion for a Directive which could require companies to introduce procedures for informing and consulting employees ; it became known as the ‘ Vredeling Directive ’ . |
| 15 | Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story . |
| 16 | Of course , it is not just audit regulation that has been under scrutiny in 1992 . |
| 17 | Audit itself has been under review , too , with the publication of The Future Development of Auditing : a Paper to Promote Public Debate , by the Auditing Practices Board ( APB ) . |
| 18 | She herself has been under attack in several ways already and needs our prayers daily . |
| 19 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 20 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The network has been under trial since July last year and although the switching equipment for the trial was supplied by Alcatel NV , the final order , worth £3m , went to GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd in conjunction with Siemens AG , against bids from AT&T Co , Alcatel and others . |
| 23 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 , he explained , under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 24 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 25 | One of its Knesset members is in prison for stealing from its own coffers , another has been charged with cooking the books and Mr Deri himself has been under police investigation for suspected financial irregularities for more than two years . |
| 26 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 27 | CCETSW has been under government pressure to raise the number of newly-qualified social workers to 5,000 a year , partly to meet demand from the shift to care management . |
| 28 | The university has been under curfew and restraint for months . |
| 29 | ‘ [ J. ] has been under my care since he sustained serious injuries in February 1991 . |
| 30 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |