Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [been] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 2 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 3 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 4 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 5 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 6 | Even though the site is only a second option , Councillor William Bleakes urged the council 's planning committee not to allow the matter to rest , and Alderman Samuel Semple pointed out the site had been under consideration since 1976 . |
| 7 | The group had been under surveillance since arriving in Valencia from Cyprus by sea in September . |
| 8 | The Fort had been under siege by guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE — the main Tamil separatist group ) since the eruption of the recent bout of hostilities in June [ see pp. 37529-30 ; 37611 ; 37654 ] . |
| 9 | Ostensibly , efforts at drafting the constitution had been under way since the mid-1970s , but real progress had only become evident in mid-1990 when a first draft was published for discussion . |
| 10 | A general strike called by the UDF-affiliated Podkrepa trade union began on Nov. 26 and spread quickly as a result of sympathetic media coverage ( a strike and sit-ins by students protesting against the government had been under way since Nov. 5 ) . |
| 11 | In early March 1989 it was reported that the UK , Italy , Netherlands and Spain had agreed to study costings for a joint army Light Attack Helicopter ( LAH ) project ; a Franco-German joint project had been under way since late 1987 ( see p. 35665 ) . |
| 12 | FIG. 2 Regressions of length mortality data against the number of days a cohort had been under observation during its first growing season , with the line forced through the origin . |
| 13 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 14 | Idly he turned to the London addendum that had been recently updated while the shipping contract had been under negotiation . |
| 15 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 16 | ( Their abolition had been under discussion since 1989 — see pp. 36564 ; 37593 . ) |
| 17 | A day later he claimed that he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign , saying that his house had been under surveillance and that a carefully organized smear campaign had been waged against him , apparently concerning loans alleged to have been made to his petfood company several years previously . |
| 18 | Because they were effecting the repair work themselves it had taken longer to complete than if they had let the Yard do it , but even so the tow had been under way again shortly after noon on the third day . |
| 19 | The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia . |