Example sentences of "be under some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision . |
| 2 | ‘ Here in the palace — though since none herein has seen hide or hair of him , one suspects that the king and his brother are under some form of house arrest . ’ |
| 3 | They are under some degree of political control but they also need to have enough autonomy to carry out complex productive activity in an efficient way . |
| 4 | And I think er Well Pat and I have discussed that a little bit as well , cos I 've been under some pressure in this direction with Alice . |
| 5 | … in recent weeks , Bush and Major have been under some pressure from the families of people who died at Lockerbie . |
| 6 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 7 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 8 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 9 | However , other retailers of the product will normally be under some obligation not to seek customers actively in R 2 's industry . |
| 10 | This is that , no matter how good any one predator 's vision may be under some conditions , it can be exceedingly poor under other conditions . |
| 11 | That sort of decision should be under some sort of democratic decision making ability . |
| 12 | I was genuinely concerned that Bev might be under some stress or pressure from the many attacks she was dealing with . |
| 13 | The entrance to Pennistons Court was through an opening between the Burdens and the next cottage which was occupied by the Stanford family — the court entrance being under some of Burden 's bedrooms . |
| 14 | We saw earlier that in the UK the main problem with an action for misrepresentation was that , as a general rule , neither party to a business transaction was required to disclose information to the other unless they were under some confidential or fiduciary obligation to do so ; and , in the UK , owing to Percival v. |
| 15 | The Universities Council for the Education of Teachers ( UCET ) debated this before agreeing to publication as a matter of course , though they were under some pressure from the DES , HMI , and , interestingly , from the Vice-Chancellors ( individually and collectively through the Committee for Principals and Vice-Chancellors ) . |
| 16 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 17 | In 1939 , of 20,906 schools 10,553 were ‘ non-provided ’ , that is under some form of Church or voluntary control and yet receiving considerable sums of public money . |
| 18 | The user of the vehicle is the owner of the vehicle or the person in whose possession it is under some hiring or leasing agreement ; this is often not the driver himself but the driver 's employer or principal . |
| 19 | At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent . |
| 20 | " He 's under some delusion that I 'm going to cheat him , " Matthew said . |
| 21 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 22 | She was under some kind of attack . |
| 23 | He returned to France in November 1944 and was rehabilitated , but was under some pressure to demonstrate his patriotism , including support for the empire . |
| 24 | The two watchmen were in a van , radio-equipped of course , but unfortunately the particular area was under some overhead power cables which badly affect radio for some distance around . ’ |
| 25 | My impression is that just before his death Paul Gray was under some sort of pressure . |
| 26 | Already she was under some malign spell that seemed woven to keep her close to Rune Christensen . |
| 27 | ‘ Give me one good reason , ’ he demanded , somehow his voice reaching her as gruff and as if he was under some powerful emotion too . |
| 28 | It was as if she was under some sort of hypnotic spell . |
| 29 | The main discussion concerned the position at left wing where Pierre Hontas of Biarritz was under some pressure after mediocre performances . |