Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in addition to the road-traffic offences , there are offences under sections 32 and 33 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 of endangering railway passengers ; there are the offences under section 1(2) of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 of endangering the lives of others by causing damage to property ( usually by fire ) ; the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 penalizes employers for failure to ensure that employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety ; and there are offences , such as that under section 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , of selling goods in contravention of safety regulations . |
| 2 | THERE IS NO COVER FOR THIS UNDER THE POLICY . |
| 3 | Government grants were available at 55% of expenditure for capital projects but austerity measures after 1946 under successive Labour Ministers ensured that those were limited . |
| 4 | It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament . |
| 5 | Practical criticism , Cambridge-style , crossed the Atlantic in the 1940s and returned after 1945 under the name of the American New Criticism ; to be emulated in 1955 in Interpretations , a collection of analytical essays by various hands edited by John Wain . |
| 6 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 7 | Tickell in his papers on the pastoral recommended ‘ … this our Island as a proper Scene for Pastoral under certain Regulations … ’ |
| 8 | The incident referred to here is fully described in the ‘ Chronicle ’ section of the Annual Register for 1775 under the date of 27 Sept . |
| 9 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 10 | The Unemployment Act 1934 introduced a national assistance scheme for the unemployed to be managed by the Unemployment Assistance Board under the direction of the Minister of Labour under which allowances became payable to assist unemployed persons . |
| 11 | He replied that an army of 5–6000 men might still successfully evade the Royal Navy and descend anywhere on the coast , so that the nation needed a minimum of 18,000 under arms , one-third to protect London , another third distributed throughout the country to crush any supporting rebellions , and the final third to provide a strategic reserve — an admirable analysis of the problem . |
| 12 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6 ’ by 9 ’ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 13 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 14 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 15 | The rotor tips would then be on the point of breaking up and the mounting on the verge of shattering under the centrifugal force . |
| 16 | By that time Woosnam had advanced from his overnight position of three under par , after a first round of 69 , to seven under , one behind Craig Parry , of Australia . |
| 17 | ‘ The question is why has n't Durham built them before ? ’ — Every child would be given a statutory right to education from the age of three under a Liberal Democrat government , its Darlington candidate vowed . |
| 18 | Hence the shrubbery of blue-and-white under my left arm , whose ineptly-wrapped stems have bedewed my pantalon in a manner suggesting the splatter of micturition . |
| 19 | In front of the prison gate every type of disreputable under heaven was now thronging ; pickpockets , knaves , apple squires , as well as the relatives of debtors and other people trying to gain access to their loved ones . |
| 20 | Those polled in the survey were asked to give firms marks out of ten under each of nine headings and the scores added to produce business sector rankings , national leaders in each heading , and an overall Top Twenty . |
| 21 | Most of those under threat are Tories , since the bulk of both county and district councils are Tory-run . |
| 22 | The PLO 's capture of the hearts and minds of those under occupation was the first great blow to Israel 's policy of normalization . |
| 23 | A sergeant with a large area to cover and under the necessity of visiting each constable , which visits have to be duly recorded , becomes testy if one or two of those under his charge are late arriving at certain points on their beats . |
| 24 | He notes that : ‘ the Institution was built in a Quadrangle Form , having now in the centre a large lawn or grass plot surrounded by posts and chains , and that between the Buildings and these a broad Pathway had been left , partly paved with stones … used chiefly for testing the freedom from lameness of Horses sent for examination prior to purchase ; as well as for ascertaining the progress of those under treatment in the Infirmary for lameness arising from various causes . |
| 25 | Oliver Stone 's Oscar-winning film was based on the horror of war , the inhumanity of situations that arise during conflict and the feelings of those under fire . |
| 26 | The first exonerated Victoria Head , now of BDO Binder Hamlyn , and Richard Green , formerly of Arthur Young , while the other two reports came to the conclusion that , after so much delay and considering the age and state of health of those under enquiry , no fair enquiry could be held . |
| 27 | Over one million of those under the age of 25 are now unemployed and over 300 000 are engaged on the Youth Training Scheme ( Youthaid Bulletin 26 ) . |
| 28 | This may involve sharing in the experience of those under study and trying to put oneself in their position . |
| 29 | Helsinki was intended to be a step towards further conversations and , like Yalta , its recognition of European borders was not so much a ‘ betrayal ’ of those under Soviet domination as a recognition of hard facts . |
| 30 | The Star Chamber and the Council had the power to administer the oath and to punish recusants ; and literally to press confessions out of those under interrogation . |