Example sentences of "under some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss or damage caused by accidents is not generally included , though you may be able to claim under some other section . |
| 2 | Furthermore , my own analysis of the Technics arrangement suggest that it is sensitive to loudspeaker impedance variations ; under some conditions the performance is worse with the subsidiary amplifier than it would be without it . |
| 3 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 4 | Under some pressure from the Liberals , he agreed to accept amendments to reduce the standard rate of income tax in his Finance Bill , but his alternative scheme of including a 2 per cent surcharge on employers ' National Insurance contributions was much attacked in the City . |
| 5 | The contents of the paper apparently horrified some ministers and , under some pressure , Mrs Thatcher withdrew it from the Cabinet agenda . |
| 6 | There 's some ducks and that sheltering under some bushes . |
| 7 | While not seeking to whitewash General Noriega , he asked : ‘ Where is the guarantee that under some trumped up pretext … the US would not send [ forces elsewhere ] to justify their arguments are right ? ’ |
| 8 | It was early September so getting dark with the street lights already lit , and the restaurant stood under some arches . |
| 9 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |
| 10 | On Wimbledon Common , the reliable Sergeant and the platoon were still where Charles had left them , relaxing under some trees . |
| 11 | A 1989 report from Washington , DC has just revealed that up to 23 per cent of young African-American men between the ages of 20 and 29 are under some kind of penal supervision . |
| 12 | Then not long after , we were both walking under some scaffolding — she was already under it and out of view — when a workman whistled , so I knew it was for me , not her . |
| 13 | This is the kind of dreamy Hollywood fantasy I like to float in when I 'm lying flat on my back under some dirty platform desperately trying to tack a loose wire or stubborn piece of baize into position — or standing in a wet field trying to work out exactly how the VIPs will swim through the mud from the helicopter to the marquee . |
| 14 | Under some forms of PR , their names are put on a list and seats are awarded to them by party managers . |
| 15 | Under some of them he finds truly delicious morsels . |
| 16 | In the final letter , written in 1768 , when he was in his late seventies and obviously under some stress he complains about the lack of co-operation from Solander and Ellis . |
| 17 | It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord . |
| 18 | Where conservation was part of a wider package of rural development programmes ( e.g. in integrated rural development projects ) , the physical outputs were achieved on target such as construction of storage facilities , target areas planted under some improved varieties of crops , the planting of trees in big plantations , the establishment of sawmills , agro-processing plants , mills and packing stations . |
| 19 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 20 | In 1939 , of 20,906 schools 10,553 were ‘ non-provided ’ , that is under some form of Church or voluntary control and yet receiving considerable sums of public money . |
| 21 | There was a badger set under some old pear-trees . |
| 22 | ‘ The right to personal freedom ’ was secured in England by ‘ the strict maintenance of the principle that no man [ could ] be arrested or imprisoned except in due course of law … under some warrant or authority ’ . |
| 23 | I wrote in great haste and under some excitement , from the statements to which I referred , [ Palmerston 's remarks ] and plead this as my excuse if I expressed what I did not really intend . |
| 24 | The entrance to Pennistons Court was through an opening between the Burdens and the next cottage which was occupied by the Stanford family — the court entrance being under some of Burden 's bedrooms . |
| 25 | If a match between the gender of the pronoun and the formal gender of the noun introducing its antecedent facilitates the interpretation of the pronoun , at least under some conditions — as we suspect it will — our hypothesis about the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of deep anaphors will be supported . |
| 26 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 27 | We found a nice level spot under some pine trees with a bed of soft pine needles facing the lake and soon after dark we were happy to crawl under the sleeping blankets . |
| 28 | It is possible , however , under some circumstances and with very limited objectives , to place materials in the body to reconstruct or to restore , in part , some lost function . |
| 29 | Under some circumstances reading becomes a superficial activity : reading when we are tired or unwell . |
| 30 | Masai on the government payroll contentedly drew their salaries and accepted whatever titles were bestowed upon them , but either did nothing or interpreted their duty to be that of spokesmen for their compatriots labouring under some inconvenience inflicted on them by the government . |