Example sentences of "[be] [verb] under [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his day , works on Evolution had been catalogued under Pre-Adamite Man . |
| 2 | Nov. 13 Three prominent Palestinians are placed under administrative detention [ ibid . ] . |
| 3 | Such ties have been placed under great strain as the result of urbanization and the arising of great inequalities within society , inequalities which have been mirrored within society , inequalities which have been mirrored within many families . |
| 4 | The words and their phrasing left no doubt that the princess had been placed under considerable pressure to speak out publicly for the first time since her marriage to Prince Charles . |
| 5 | All but one of those released have been placed under heavy restriction orders . |
| 6 | A farm in Norfolk has been placed under strict quarantine after the discovery of rhizomania or ‘ root madness ’ , which attacks sugar and other beet crops , reducing the yield . |
| 7 | This caused the instantaneous release of gas and steam which had been confined under high pressure and the whole northern flank of the volcano was removed by an enormous lateral blast . |
| 8 | At London 's Middlesex Hospital , for instance , surgeon John Scurr runs a pioneering day-care unit where hernias are repaired under local anaesthetic with woven nylon threads or Teflon patches as alternatives to polypropylene mesh . |
| 9 | The second question was whether it was lawful to pass sentences totalling 12 months for the offences in respect of which the appellant had been committed under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.56 . |
| 10 | The second common mistake ( not made in this case ) is to impose a sentence for an either way offence for which the offender has been committed under Criminal Justice Act 1967 , s.S6 a sentence in excess of six months ' imprisonment , which is possible if the offender is committed for the same offence under Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.38 . |
| 11 | Commission vice-president Martin Bangemann explained that the measure had been framed under Single Market ‘ fast-track ’ procedures in which final approval is subject to qualified majority in the Council of Ministers on matters necessitating a high level of public protection . |
| 12 | There is a general agreement amongst cardiologists about the value of risk stratification and exercise testing , and if the patients are seen under medical control , more general points can also be tackled . |
| 13 | He said that his television broadcast had not been written under physical pressure but " under the constraints of the situation " . |
| 14 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 15 | This is probably why Blakemore would have been given a licence had one been needed under previous legislation . |
| 16 | Another intriguing aspect of water is its ability to form different crystal patterns , such as the different crystal forms of ice and snow that are produced under different weather conditions and the different ices that can be obtained under high pressures . |
| 17 | It is impossible to recall contaminated eggs as they are distributed to packing stations around the country , where they are packed under British brand names . |
| 18 | In his long and ultimately successful battle against the latter organization ( a European army in which French , German , and other European units would have been integrated under American command ) de Gaulle developed all his objections to supranationalism . |
| 19 | Staff at the Bordon and Alton offices are coming under increasing pressure with an ever growing number of enquiries as the hard times continue to bite . |
| 20 | Tax havens are coming under increasing pressure in high tax rate countries . |
| 21 | It is understood businessmen in the Holywood , Bangor and Newtownards areas of North Down are coming under increasing pressure from UVF figures to hand over weekly sums of cash . |
| 22 | Evidence shows that some residential projects are coming under financial strain as money and clients dry up . |
| 23 | ' It is just that my friends are coming under great pressure from their communities over the incident . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ My friends are coming under great pressure , ’ said the kadi . |
| 25 | Since nationalisation under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1964 , the exploitation of all coal reserves within the United Kingdom has been brought under public control . |
| 26 | By the time the second oil shock hit Japan in 1979–80 the rate of inflation had been brought under tight control by a sharp reduction in the level of wage increases , energy-saving technology had been introduced , stricter pollution controls were enacted and LDP support had revived . |
| 27 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 28 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 29 | The penal system wields power over its subjects , but its moral right to do so has been coming under strong attack . |
| 30 | Decision : it was clear to the Court that a sentence of detention in a young offender institution could be justified under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4A) ( b ) , on the ground that only a custodial sentence was adequate to protect the public from serious harm from him . |