Example sentences of "as [being] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in European antiquity the days of the week were regarded as being under the influence of the principal heavenly bodies — Saturn-day , Sun-day , Moon-day , and so on — for the Maya each day was itself divine . |
| 2 | The persons named in the notice as being under investigation included S. , a former director of G. Plc . |
| 3 | As the courts have not articulated more precisely the content of the duty to act in the interests of the company we will continue to describe directors as being under a duty to maximise profits . |
| 4 | The presence of foreign armies — including their female personnel — in Saudi Arabia was not a development with which the more conservative elements were entirely comfortable , some of them describing the country with its Holy Places as being under the occupation of unbelievers . |
| 5 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 6 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |