Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard that the allegations were made by an international conman called Barry Edward Gray , who operated under aliases and specialised in ‘ stings ’ in Britain and abroad . |
| 2 | Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools . |
| 3 | In 1987 , it was the paramilitary extortionists of the UDA who came under scrutiny . |
| 4 | One Scottish player who played under Bremner when he managed Leeds , said , ‘ Being bollocked by Billy is a bit hard to take , it 's like Dean Martin telling you stop drinking . ’ |
| 5 | The second work is by Christen Kobke who studied under Eckersberg in the 1820s . |
| 6 | Michel Foucault ( 1926–1994 ) , who studied under Althusser , took the step his teacher never did and distanced himself from Marxism while remaining politically radical . |
| 7 | Mr Brain , for the prosecution , brought forward several witnesses who stated under oath that they had heard Slatter encourage James to stab PC Hewett with a sheath knife . |
| 8 | The President , who acted under Article 58 of the Constitution , also dissolved the National and provincial assemblies , imposed a state of emergency and swore in an interim government led by Ghulam Mustapha Jatoi , leader of the Combined Opposition Parties ( formed in June 1989 — see p. 36736 ) . |
| 9 | His chief binder was Claude de Picques , who worked under Grolier 's close supervision so that , amidst the intricate variety of decoration , a number of common features can be found . |
| 10 | He himself denied that the former MI5 deputy director Guy Liddell was a Russian agent during the war and he also defended Sir Roger Hollis who fell under suspicion when he was director-general of the security services . |
| 11 | MP Simon Burns and Chelmsford Mayor Edgar Roberts were among the dignitaries who attended Under Pressure 's official opening yesterday afternoon . |
| 12 | In 1971 social class I women who married under age 20 had on average 1.96 children , declining to 1.23 ( 63 per cent of the average for teenage marriage ) for women married at age 30–44 . |
| 13 | Some of these transactions were alleged to have been conducted with the assistance of insider information supplied by Mitsuhiro Kotani , the head of a speculative investment syndicate who in 1990 pleaded guilty to one charge of manipulating stock prices and who remained under investigation for other alleged offences . |