Example sentences of "[verb] [be] under [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1979 , the civil service has been under renewed pressure to reduce administrative cost . |
| 2 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 3 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 4 | This incentive , combined with a period of cost containment in which public hospital funding from state and federal governments has been under increasing pressure , has created even more of a temptation to attract privately funded patients in preference to patients solely supported by public funds . |
| 5 | Since 1979 , local government has been under increasing pressure to consider ways in which the private sector could run services previously provided by the public sector . |
| 6 | The Eritreans want their educational system to contribute to the total transformation of this Red Sea country which has been under colonial occupation by Ethiopia since the end of World War Two . |
| 7 | Traditionally a Democratic state , New Jersey has been under broad Republican control since Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Governor Thomas Kean narrowly defeated Mr Florio in 1981 . |
| 8 | As an autonomous region , Tibet ( Xizang ) has its own legislature ( Local People 's Congress , whose Chairman is currently Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme ) and is administered by a People 's Government ( whose Chairman is currently Doje Cering ) ; since pro-independence demonstrations in September and October 1987 [ see pp. 35716-17 ] security has been largely controlled from Beijing , and since March 1989 Lhasa has been under martial law [ see pp. 36521-22 ] . |
| 9 | Phillips has been under financial pressure ever since the expensive failure of its venture into the US market . |
| 10 | Dubroca 's outburst — totally out of character for a player recognised for his sense of fair play and a captain admired for his commitment — though indefensible , was perhaps understandable : the man has been under tremendous pressure since the beginning of the World Cup , and he cracked . |
| 11 | Norman White has been under cross examination as the trial at Bristol Crown Court comes in to its third week . |
| 12 | The dissident movement in the Soviet Union has been under heavy attack over the past few years . |
| 13 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 14 | During the review of broadcasting which began with the Peacock Committee , one proposal for Channel Four has been under constant discussion . |
| 15 | Clinton has been under growing pressure to take a tougher stand including NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs to end the bloodshed in the 17-month-old war . |
| 16 | The forests of the Chimanimani mountains , on Zimbabwe 's border with Mozambique , which are among the most species-rich areas of Africa , have been all but destroyed during the 10 years in which the region has been under military control . |
| 17 | Northamptonshire has been under Conservative control for the last eight years but it 's still tight . |
| 18 | He has been under 24-hour guard in his cell in Gibraltar 's grim 13th century prison since slashing his wrists and groin with a razor blade three months ago . |
| 19 | Since the Turkish invasion of 1974 the north-east of the island has been under Turkish occupation . |
| 20 | Mr Barry has been under intense scrutiny ever since ; Mr Lewis was arrested on March 3rd in the FBI 's Frenchman 's Reef sting , allegedly for trying to sell drugs to undercover agents . |
| 21 | The pound , which has been under intense selling pressure for most of the past seven trading days , rallied 2.4 pfennigs to close in London at DM3.0342 . |
| 22 | But he has been under intense pressure recently . |
| 23 | The Principality of Monaco is a hereditary monarchy , which since 1861 has been under French protection . |
| 24 | The Principality of Monaco has been under French protection since 1861 . |
| 25 | But when he spoke the anger she had expected was under tight control . |
| 26 | She 'd been under medical care . ’ |
| 27 | How the position of Communist Parties is changing in Eastern Europe SOVIET UNION : The party 's guaranteed right to rule is under unprecedented challenge , particularly in the Baltic states . |
| 28 | Apart from the worry over The Family Reunion , I perceived that lie was under considerable strain . |
| 29 | Glynn was not by nature careless or casual ; he must have been under strong emotion . |
| 30 | As these activities became more intense a greater demand would have been placed on those who made it possible , the food-producers , who would have been under increasing pressure to maximise output . |