Example sentences of "[noun] be under the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Action was promised as the minister said , in October nineteen ninety two by the former chancellor when the Bingham report was published , but I believe that these proposals are under the bear minimum requested by Bingham and they hardly live up er to the er minister 's announcement at the beginning of his speech .
2 In neat liquids and solutions there is little short-range order , and at any instant different molecules are under the influence of randomly-differing local environments .
3 The FMLN has established hospitals with small professional medical teams , The smaller clinics are under the control of the Popular Power Councils and are run by health promoters who place particular importance on basic health education and preventive medicine .
4 To summarize : the purpose of the experiment is to create a standardized situation for the researcher to study , in which all variables are under the control of the experimenter , and in which the results of manipulating variables can be studied and measured .
5 erm I feel much safer with that that the erm than our schools being under the control of the Department of Education , who will be very difficult to influence .
6 It was never true that the majority of local parties were under the control of the Left but the more active and vocal Constituencies were becoming so by 1939 .
7 The first is that the direction of research within a department is under the control of the supervisors in that Department , for whom the Ph D student does the donkey work .
8 Among them were teams from the Crusaders fanzine Where Cornerboys Collect , the Linfield publication , One Team in Ulster and Larne 's Under the Moon .
9 Angus Wilson 's Hemlock and After ( 1952 ) , John Wain 's Hurry On Down ( 1953 ) , Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim ( 1954 ) , Iris Murdoch 's Under the Net ( 1954 ) , John Braine 's Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , Alan Sillitoe 's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1958 ) , and David Storey 's This Sporting Life ( 1960 ) are all first novels in which a lone male protagonist tries to find a means of accommodating himself to a society whose main institutions he views with suspicion .
10 Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites .
11 In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock .
12 Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East .
13 Throughout its period of occupation , the region 's wine industry was under the control of a Rhineland wine-maker , Herr Klaebisch , who assumed the title of Führer of Champagne .
14 For much of Charles ' reign Constantinople was under the control of relatively ineffectual rulers , and had many internal disputes and factions which made imperial interest in Italy difficult to enforce .
15 Further , although Marseilles was under the rule of Childebert by this time , the latter 's governor Rathar , arrested Theodore and sent him to Guntram .
16 Some members of the backbench Tory Treasury committee are under the impression that they virtually dictated his budget — which is harmless and quite touching .
17 Judges are under the thumb of the bureaucracy .
18 Further south , different areas were under the control of the Somali Democratic Movement ( ‘ S.D.M. ’ ) and Somalia Patriotic Movement ( ‘ S.P.M. ’ ) and the followers of Siad Barre .
19 The left arm bones were under the thorax .
20 Prior to the transformation of the dialectic , Marx 's work is under the shadow of the Hegelian dialectic and the transformation brings about a new problematic and the possibility of an emerging science .
21 For the comprehension items , the tester speaks the two stimulus sentences — for example , ‘ The cat is behind the chair ’ ; ‘ The cat is under the chair ’ — and then requires the child to ‘ Show me the cat is under the chair ’ from a set of pictures .
22 For the comprehension items , the tester speaks the two stimulus sentences — for example , ‘ The cat is behind the chair ’ ; ‘ The cat is under the chair ’ — and then requires the child to ‘ Show me the cat is under the chair ’ from a set of pictures .
23 IN mammals , testis determination is under the control of the testis-determining factor borne by the Y chromosome .
24 That too , is a transference from the childhood situation , where the child is under the authority of the parent .
25 By the time they had reached his flat the sun was under the yard-arm .
26 Hutchinson 's first official work was under the navy and customs committee of the Long Parliament ; by 1645 he was acting as Vane 's deputy in the very important post of navy treasurer .
27 When Scotland was under the management of a powerful politician , such as the Earl of Ilay or Henry Dundas , almost all worthwhile patronage was channelled through the manager 's hands .
28 Recently , the gallery was under the threat of total closure as the centre had lost its local funding .
29 Goalscorers are under the microscope more than anyone for England after the retirement of Gary Lineker and that reassurance of a definite period to prove himself would settle Ian .
30 German universities were under the control of the state bureaucracy , which appointed the professors , but they had responded quickly to the specialization of the period with the creation of new chairs .
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