Example sentences of "could [be] under " in BNC.

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1 The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job .
2 Jason Nicolle also won in four games , against Raymond Schaffer , but had to fight back from a game and 6-7 down in the second , and his place in the sudden-death phase at the weekend could be under threat from Parke .
3 More than 150,000 children are already educated in grant-maintained schools but , if the prediction is correct , two thirds of all state school pupils in England and Wales could be under the new system .
4 Thus the father could be under pressure at 40 years of age , again at 50 years and finally at 60 years .
5 Any one of us could be under the same sort of misapprehension without even realizing it .
6 The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US .
7 PETER Scudamore 's seven-season monopoly on the champion jump jockeys ' title could be under threat , according to the bookies .
8 Construction is expected to begin next year and the first experiments could be under way as early as 1998 .
9 To this question the defendant answers ‘ No , ’ because at the time of his neglect the plaintiff was not in existence as a living person , had no separate existence apart from her mother , was not capable of suing to assert a legal right , and was not a legal person to whom he could be under a duty .
10 All contemporary accounts suggest that eighteenth century seamen , brutal and violent as they could be under provocation , were hardly lacking in the capacity to organise in support of their claims , and by the standards of the day , to do so peaceably whenever the authorities kept their heads sufficiently to allow mediation to proceed .
11 Whether these figures could be under siege may depend on the weather .
12 According to a report by Dr Chris Van Sway of the government funded Dutch Butterfly Foundation , the Netherlands has lost 15 of its 63 species and 10 more could be under threat .
13 ULSTER cattle herds could be under threat from ‘ imported ’ bovine diseases which may not show themselves for several years .
14 International issues could be under the aegis of a separately elected British Parliament which would replace the House of Lords .
15 JOBS could be under threat at a NorthEast cigarette factory if Labour comes to power and bans tobacco advertising , a company chairman has warned .
16 It can put pressure on her family , on her children , er put pressure on her at work in her job situation and she could be under a lot of harassment .
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