Example sentences of "under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money was part of the proceeds from the sale of unclaimed property sold under the Police Property Act . |
| 2 | This has the effect of cancelling your existing covenant and in return you commit yourself to making payments under the new covenant . |
| 3 | This procedure is perfectly acceptable provided that your new commitments are at least as great as the remaining commitments due under the orignal covenant . |
| 4 | This can cause problems , since you agree under the terms of the covenant to make payments out of income from which tax has been deducted . |
| 5 | A covenant is a legally binding document to make regular donations , and such donations must be made under the terms of an existing Deed of Covenant for tax to be reclaimable . |
| 6 | The minimum donation which an individual can make under the Gift Aid is £600. the total donations which an individual may make under Gift Aid in any tax year must not exceed £5,000,000 . |
| 7 | So if you are not a UK taxpayer you are advised not to make a payment under the Gift Aid scheme but to make a straight payment by cash or cheque . |
| 8 | A recent survey of church youth groups shows that 1 in 4 have had sex by the time they are eighteen years old , 1 in 10 under the age of sixteen . |
| 9 | Death squad killings , ‘ disappearances ’ , illegal arrests and torture persist in spite of the Government and the Farabund Marti National Liberation Front signing the Agreement on Human Rights in July 1990 , under the auspices of the United Nations . |
| 10 | The Commission also took a stronger stand in respect of two other countries on its agenda : Cuba will not come under special scrutiny by a representative of the UN Secretary-General and the Expert on Equatorial Guinea , a country which receives assistance under the UN Advisory Services Program , has been requested to study the human rights situation there . |
| 11 | Suspected torturers are permitted under the new law to continue to interrogate detainees while charges against them are outstanding . |
| 12 | AI also sent urgent appeals to the governments of the United States , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in April , urging them to ensure that Iraqi refugees then under the control of United States-led coalition forces were guaranteed effective and durable protection against human rights violations by Iraqi Government forces . |
| 13 | Hamadi Jebali was charged with defamation of a judicial institution under the Tunisian Press Code , under which prior authorization by the Ministry of Interior is required to publish any newspaper or periodical . |
| 14 | The detentions followed the formation of an official Patriotic Catholic Association ( PCA ) , independent of the Church of Rome , intended to bring Catholic affairs under the control of the Chinese Government . |
| 15 | Since its implementation , fines totalling more than £24 million have been imposed under the Act and clearly some airlines have adopted practices aimed at minimizing the number of penalties incurred . |
| 16 | Art Now had started life as a lecture series , but Read was a frequent reviewer of exhibitions , and a contributor to the Listener , from which some short essays were published under the title The Meaning of Art . |
| 17 | ‘ Having spent the Vigour of my Youth and Genius under the Oppression of Sir Joshua & his Gang of Cunning Hired Knaves Without Employment & as much as could possibly be Without Bread , the Reader must Expect to Read in all my Remarks on these Books Nothing but Indignation and Resentment . ’ |
| 18 | In the evening our friend has supper in the art nouveau interior of the Hotel Europe , before going to a performance at the National Theatre , built in the 1880s as a monument to the Czech national spirit , pinioned under the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 19 | A biography of an artist is a tricky proposition for a writer , since the artist may prefer to be judged through art , not life ; the incidentals of an everyday activity , not altogether under the artist 's control , are rather unimportant compared to the artist 's concentrated effort to create paintings or sculpture . |
| 20 | His secretary , the poet Rainer Maria Rilke , wrote with feeling about his work , but during the 1920s Rodin was less regarded , and not until after the Second World War did his reputation revive under the stimulus of exhibitions and increasingly careful cataloguing of his work . |
| 21 | There are shows which could be grouped under the heading of historical exhibitions ; there are mixed exhibitions and group exhibitions of works by living artists ; and there are exhibitions in dealers ' galleries , notably solo shows . |
| 22 | It may also give a misleading impression : for example , the work of German Expressionist painters under the banner of the name Die Brücke , Kirchner , Nolde and Pechstein was affected by their practice as print-makers , where some motifs and treatment originated . |
| 23 | By the end of the novel Jaromil has forsworn his artist friend , who is under the ban of the regime and compelled to paint by candlelight : ‘ The whole world of his pictures has been dead for years . |
| 24 | Where can Jenny have been , in the course of her adolescence , to be willing , if only out of nervousness , to accept that the Reds in Spain have been swept out from under the bed and up into mountain caves ? |
| 25 | The most vital explosion of British theatre writing since the Second World War came with the foundation of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London , under the direction of George Devine : the first season mounted there included John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger . |
| 26 | The present situation in 1990 is that would-be members can become provisional members by the following means ; by being offered an engagement by any company or management which operates under the ‘ Quota ’ system by agreement with Equity and the Theatre Managers ' Association . |
| 27 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |
| 28 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 29 | Under the treaty with the United Kingdom , the twenty-six counties which were to become the independent state were to remain within the British Empire with dominion status , and the British monarch was to remain head of state . |
| 30 | The new Fianna Fáil Party , under the leadership of Eamon de Valera , was intent on asserting Irish independence to the full by leaving the empire and providing a president to replace the monarchy , thus becoming the Republic of Ireland . |