Example sentences of "been under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 5 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 6 | 6d. and many would have been under the average . |
| 7 | The gunman is thought by detectives to have been under the influence of ‘ crack ’ cocaine . |
| 8 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 9 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 10 | As a result of these disputes , Charles gained possession of a number of Istrian coastal cities which had originally been under the rule of Constantinople . |
| 11 | I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it . |
| 12 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The bloody fools seem to have been under the impression that they had performed rather well . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had always been under the impression that home breeding was unsuccessful , until I read an account of a breeding success by a Mr. Werner Nowak of Montreal . |
| 17 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 18 | While the history of the press has been marked by cleavages between the rulers and the ruled , radio had been under the control of colonial administrators . |
| 19 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 20 | United and today 's opponents Arsenal have both been under the disciplinary spotlight , having picked up a stack of yellow cards between them . |
| 21 | This angered several readers , who seem to have been under the impression that in publishing it , I condone and support abortion . |
| 22 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 23 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 24 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 25 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 26 | Consequently such services have only been under the administration of health authorities for a short while . |
| 27 | By contrast , the regulation of the international economy in earlier periods had been under the domination of London , pivoting around London 's capital markets and the pound sterling which acted as the main form of international money . |
| 28 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 29 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |
| 30 | He 'd been under the ice , under the water , for ten minutes or more . |