Example sentences of "it [vb past] be under " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 2 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 3 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |
| 4 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 5 | Nigeria thus became an administered rather than a political society , just as it had been under colonialism . |
| 6 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 7 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 8 | Smooth and firm it had been under her own nervous touch , and she watched Miguel 's muscles , catching the sunlight as he dismounted and reached up to help her . |
| 9 | The green staff worked miracles to get the course fit for play after it had been under water from Thursday night 's storms . |