Example sentences of "was under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the Irish Free State did emerge in 1921 , practically the entire school system was under the control of the churches . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Rangers were grateful that Alan McDonald was under the bar to head away after John Cooke had eluded Kenny Sansom . |
| 3 | Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East . |
| 4 | The rest of the market was under the BZW whip . |
| 5 | The local Soviet was under the firm control of the SRs . |
| 6 | The next street towards the River Tyne was under the railway arch . |
| 7 | ‘ I was under the impression you despised sympathy , Miss Fanshawe . ’ |
| 8 | He was under the impression that the renewal of his contract was a formality . |
| 9 | He was under the impression that the renewal of his contract was a formality . |
| 10 | The fine statues on the topmost balconies of the Ayuntamiento and framing the moonlike clock-face gestured against the midnight skies , and at once I was under the spell of the past . |
| 11 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 12 | I was under the influence of a power a million times stronger than any drug . |
| 13 | The Vicar of Kidderminster was under the influence of Sir Ralph Clare and refused to allow Richard Baxter to return under any circumstances , even though he offered to preach for nothing . |
| 14 | For much of Charles ' reign Constantinople was under the control of relatively ineffectual rulers , and had many internal disputes and factions which made imperial interest in Italy difficult to enforce . |
| 15 | Within a few years Dunkirk Mills was under the control , although not in the complete ownership of Peter Playne , of a long-established clothier family of Flemish descent . |
| 16 | By 1839 it was under the control of Playne and Smith , whose main base was Dunkirk Mill . |
| 17 | In 1857 , Reading police force was under the auspices of Chief Constable Henry Peck , a man who played it strictly by the rule book . |
| 18 | He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night . |
| 19 | It was under the protection of the Estates and was also known as the Estates Theatre . |
| 20 | This area was under the sea . |
| 21 | Before this , in a period called the Carboniferous , the whole region was under the sea . |
| 22 | Standard Two was under the control of Miss Judd , a very nice lady whose home was at Winterslow , where she returned in 1924 as Headmistress . |
| 23 | This started at 2.30 pm , lasted for an hour and was under the direction of Mr. Ernest Russ , our Headmaster . |
| 24 | The mother had pointed out that her daughter was under the legal age for sexual intercourse , but the high priest had explained that the order had its own calendar . |
| 25 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 26 | Like the FAOR Field Trial ( Chapt 10 ) it took place in an establishment that was under the control of a Social Services Department . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Smith ’ , as he was always formally addressed , was under the impression he was just temporary holiday relief . |
| 28 | Gillerthwaite - - ‘ was under the influence of a warm and sportive sunshine , which rendering lazy , while it illuminated the lowing herds of cattle , presented , to the mind 's eye , after their viewing such a scene the results of a Cuyp , a Bergham , or a Potter , or of many an English painter of animals . ’ |
| 29 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 30 | The American lad , Lee Horan , was under the impression that she was Dominic 's girlfriend , but apparently she denied it to him , as she did to me . |