Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 2 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 3 | 5–9- " There was laid on the table a minute of the Deacons ' Court of date from which it appeared that the subject of the conversion of the Schoolhouse into dwelling houses had been under consideration , and that the Court had agreed to submit the proposal to the congregation for its opinion . " |
| 4 | The bill , which had been under consideration for more than two years , would have ended the state monopoly on broadcasting and reorganized the radio and television services as independent public bodies . |
| 5 | Even though the site is only a second option , Councillor William Bleakes urged the council 's planning committee not to allow the matter to rest , and Alderman Samuel Semple pointed out the site had been under consideration since 1976 . |
| 6 | Lord James told the committee an extension of hours had been under consideration since the 1970s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 9 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 10 | On Jan. 19 the Ministry for Research , Technology and the Environment confirmed that two inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , at the invitation of the Algerian government , had visited the nuclear reactor at Ain Oussera , 140 km south of Algiers , which had been under construction since 1986 with technical assistance from China . |
| 11 | This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years . |
| 12 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 13 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 14 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 15 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 16 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 17 | Because they were effecting the repair work themselves it had taken longer to complete than if they had let the Yard do it , but even so the tow had been under way again shortly after noon on the third day . |
| 18 | In early March 1989 it was reported that the UK , Italy , Netherlands and Spain had agreed to study costings for a joint army Light Attack Helicopter ( LAH ) project ; a Franco-German joint project had been under way since late 1987 ( see p. 35665 ) . |
| 19 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 20 | The USA reacted angrily to the attack and threatened to call off talks with the PLO which had been under way since late 1987 . |
| 21 | Seventeen of those arrested , including the soldiers , were detained on Aug. 21 , whilst the others were arrested in separate operations which had been under way since March . |
| 22 | A general strike called by the UDF-affiliated Podkrepa trade union began on Nov. 26 and spread quickly as a result of sympathetic media coverage ( a strike and sit-ins by students protesting against the government had been under way since Nov. 5 ) . |
| 23 | The national debate concerning Canada 's constitutional future — particularly Quebec 's role within it — which had been under way since the collapse in June 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord [ see pp. 37519-20 ] , continued in June but showed some evidence of a greater willingness to compromise by both the separatist French minority and the English-speaking majority . |
| 24 | Talks had been under way since February 1991 [ see p. 38115 ] , the principal difficulties being over improved access to EC markets for eastern European agricultural products and textiles . |
| 25 | Ostensibly , efforts at drafting the constitution had been under way since the mid-1970s , but real progress had only become evident in mid-1990 when a first draft was published for discussion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even the intendants , who had been under Colbert and his successors the greatest of all agencies of administrative centralization , showed tendencies of this kind in the last decades of the period . |
| 28 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 29 | The Christian town of Zahle , which had been under siege by leftist militias , was now open to visitors and traffic , the Syrians cooperating openly with the local Phalangist defenders . |
| 30 | ‘ A particular blackspot was the port of Kaffa in the Crimea , which had been under siege by the Mongols . |