Example sentences of "been under [noun] by " 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 | The Christian town of Zahle , which had been under siege by leftist militias , was now open to visitors and traffic , the Syrians cooperating openly with the local Phalangist defenders . |
| 3 | ‘ A particular blackspot was the port of Kaffa in the Crimea , which had been under siege by the Mongols . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | On Jan. 8 the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) announced that the village of Rashaf , situated on the edge of the zone , had been under siege by the SLA since late December . |
| 6 | Copies of the transitional government 's broad economic programme , which had been under discussion by the Council of Representatives in October and November , became freely available to the public in early December . |
| 7 | The alleged conspirators had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before arrest . |
| 8 | Kayley had been under observation by Nurse Motley and Beverley Allitt , 24 , who denies murdering four child patients and attempting to murder nine others , including Kayley , at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991 . |