Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Secretary of State made any advance in redressing the ridiculous situation of the Scottish soldiers in the territorial units who served in the Gulf for 51 days and who were constantly under attack by Scud missiles ? |
| 2 | However , with Jean Parmiter and Ann Langford teaching things were soon under way and the Display Items went down very well . |
| 3 | Sandbags were used to stem the flow but several corridors were soon under water . |
| 4 | The RWC men were soon under fire when , on the first day , the sides in Pool A discovered that their schedule allowed only three 20 minute rest-periods between matches . |
| 5 | He did n't , but experts on TV and in the papers set off flurries of speculation that negotiations were finally under way to release all the hostages . |
| 6 | To complete the picture of railways in this area one should add that the quite successful Leominster & Kington Railway was opened in 1862 and eventually had various extensions and branches , some of which were already under discussion when Kington was reached . |
| 7 | They were already under stress , thanks to the aftershock of last year 's drought and a drop in the price of tobacco , the country 's chief export . |
| 8 | A bid would be subject to the family raising the £20million needed to finance the purchase of the shares it does not already own , but Mr Roger De Haan , who is leading the bid approach , said discussions were already under way with a bank and he was confident the money would be available . |
| 9 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
| 10 | When he finally named seven people he was told he should be comforted by the fact that all of them were already under subpoena to appear . |
| 11 | In addition , charges of " receiving the fruits of a crime " were brought on Feb. 20 , 1989 , against 14 Greek companies , including the state-owned telegraphic and telephone office OTE and the state airline Olympic Airways , which were alleged to have deposited large sums of money with the Bank of Crete in August and September 1988 , when the Bank 's dealings were already under investigation . |
| 12 | An investigation concluded that the US captain and crew , given a midnight practice drill , had thought that they were genuinely under attack . |
| 13 | These included an ageing Soviet-supplied 8-megawatt plant ; a 50-megawatt and a 200-megawatt plant , both of which were still under construction ; and a 5-megawatt natural uranium experimental facility , the existence of which had previously been unknown internationally . |
| 14 | the recommendations on Citizen 's Law Centres were still under consideration ; |
| 15 | The remaining twenty were advised their applications were still under consideration . |
| 16 | Plans to establish a national guard , with specific responsibilities for controlling civil violence and resisting potential coup attempts , were still under consideration by the government , although observers speculated that the proposals were being resisted by members of the military establishment . |
| 17 | The extent of the process can be judged by the fact that in 1970–71 there were 117 meetings of subject boards , 113 visits , 253 courses considered and 159 approved ( of the ninety-four rejected thirty-four were still under consideration at the beginning of the next academic year ) . |
| 18 | However he argued that ancient woodlands were still under threat from new planting and new road developments — for example the proposed destruction of Oxleas Wood in south east London , to make way for a Thames crossing . |
| 19 | When we were flying over Holland I did steel myself to look out and I remember seeing where miles of land had been submerged under sea water to keep the Germans out , and houses , trees and roads were still under water . |
| 20 | The Foreign Office Minister Lord Brabazon of Tara confirmed that Vietnam had ‘ agreed to take these people back , provided forcible repatriation is not used ’ , and that talks were still under way . |
| 21 | ‘ Other modifications of the door closing system and methods of mitigating the effects of sudden depressurisation of the aft cargo compartment were still under study at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 22 | The rebels held the ports of Andalusia and Galicia , but the Mediterranean and Pyrenean communication routes were still under Republican control . |
| 23 | In 1880 , even on the British register , most of these ships were still under sail but steamships were common . |
| 24 | James Chaplin was born in 1886 , and during his early years at sea most of the craft were still under sail . |
| 25 | Further down the street , in Westmorland Street , some of the shops bore the scars of the fighting , and many were still under repair . |
| 26 | Another 60,000 had been punished for misdeeds but retained their party membership , while a further 120,000 were still under investigation . |
| 27 | It was getting near Christmas and we were both under pressure to get orders completed . |
| 28 | Only the fact that the streets were also under construction made them passable ; one made one 's way cautiously from one mound of earth to another . |
| 29 | Negotiations were also under way with Switzerland for a relaxation of that country 's ban on the 40-tonne lorries which were usual in all EC member states except the UK and Ireland , and Austria was also being asked to upgrade rail and road transit routes , particularly over the Brenner Pass between Innsbruck and the Italian border . |
| 30 | Discussions were also under way with Hungary on a similar agreement , not actually signed until March 10 , providing for the withdrawal of most of the 52,000 Soviet troops from Hungary by the end of 1990 and the remainder by July 1991 . |