Example sentences of "[been] under [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Provinces , as they were then known , had been under Habsburg rule and began a 40-year war with Spain for their national independence in the 1570s . |
| 2 | Dave Punshon , Age Concern 's chief officer , recently expressed fears that the scheme would have to close and its staff have been under redundancy notice since Christmas to finish on March 31 . |
| 3 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 4 | Srebrenica has been under Serb siege since the Bosnian civil war began 11 months ago . |
| 5 | CCETSW has been under government pressure to raise the number of newly-qualified social workers to 5,000 a year , partly to meet demand from the shift to care management . |
| 6 | On April 4 Bor , which had been under SPLA control since April 1989 , fell to a government force of some 2,000 men , which was armed with heavy artillery against the SPLA 's lighter arms . |
| 7 | On the chalk downlands , which have been under sheep pasture ever since the Iron Age , something like the original appearance of a similar trackway has been preserved , but in the arable Midlands it must have disappeared fairly early . |
| 8 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 9 | All this time , Lumumba had been under house arrest in Leopoldville . |
| 10 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 11 | Suu Kyi , secretary general of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , had been under house arrest since July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 12 | This meant in effect that Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition leader who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , was removed as the party 's secretary general . |
| 13 | Former interim President Ertha Pascal Trouillot , who had been under house arrest following allegations of her involvement in the January 1991 coup attempt [ see pp. 37955 ; 38145 ] , left for Florida , USA , on Sept. 9 . |
| 14 | In April 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi , who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , had been effectively removed as NLD general secretary [ see p. 38151 ] . |
| 15 | During the following week over 30 political prisoners were reportedly released , including a number of bodyguards and assistants to Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 16 | Aung San Suu Kyi , the country 's main opposition figure who had been under house arrest since mid-1989 , was permitted a visit by her husband , Michael Aris , and two sons during May . |
| 17 | The resolution also called for the unconditional release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi , who had been under house arrest since 1989 . |
| 18 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 19 | However she was unable to attend , having been under house arrest in Burma which is ruled by the military , for the past four years . |
| 20 | The seven laureates hope to focus world attention on the plight of Ms Suu Kyi , who has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 , and 1,500 other political prisoners of the junta . |
| 21 | The seven laureates hope to focus world attention on the plight of Ms Suu Kyi , who has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 , and 1,500 other political prisoners of the junta . |
| 22 | ‘ We have been under enemy attack since we arrived here six days ago , with practically no sleep . |
| 23 | It was the first time Ingrid had been under small-arms fire . |
| 24 | The black population has been under police surveillance for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ Then there 's a small matter of your presence at two locations within a week which have been under police surveillance . |
| 26 | One of its Knesset members is in prison for stealing from its own coffers , another has been charged with cooking the books and Mr Deri himself has been under police investigation for suspected financial irregularities for more than two years . |