Example sentences of "[pron] under [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Am I under arrest ? ’ |
| 2 | Any kind of overt optical distortion can only be an occasional isolated effect for a clearly marked purpose , such as rendering the subjective experience of someone under stress or drunk or dreaming . |
| 3 | The due process of law could be a bit of an ass when you arrested someone under age . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , and Miss Hardbroom , I 've just remembered , there is a frog in the pond and it really is someone under enchantment . |
| 5 | ‘ We put ourselves under pressure , which you do when you have n't played together , ’ said Laughton . |
| 6 | In some cases subsidence damage will have come to light when a property is being sold and we may find ourselves under pressure to resolve the claim quickly to allow the sale to proceed . |
| 7 | Even if the Academy is ‘ allowed ’ to meet , we 'll find ourselves under house arrest . ’ |
| 8 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 9 | Plastics are ‘ cooperative ’ in this respect ; one can often make a pilot moulding out of clear polystyrene , which under stress emits a visible ‘ scream ’ in polarised light , to test where the forces are destructively concentrated . |
| 10 | The Academic Division is responsible for servicing the General Board of the Faculties ( which under Council is responsible for the academic administration of the University ) and some 13 standing committees , 16 faculty boards ( and a variety of board committees ) , 15 inter-faculty and similar committees , and the Libraries Board and its committees . |
| 11 | In the previous chapter we saw how anthropology was sometimes used by them to show the historical particularity of institutions which under capitalism were represented as eternal . |
| 12 | The Government is introducing competitive tendering for leisure facilities which under Labour is costing the City nearly £7 million . |
| 13 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 14 | The net assets of the Company , as stated in the balance sheet on page 18 , are more than half of the amount of its called-up share capital and , in our opinion , on that basis there did not exist at 31 December 1992 a financial situation which under Section 40(1) of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 would require the convening of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company . |
| 15 | To put it another way , the risk which under section 20 passes with property ( i.e. which falls upon the owner ) does not include the risk of loss or damage due to the other party 's negligence . |
| 16 | Assuming the purchaser obtains the relevant authorities from its shareholders , it will make the offer to the shareholders to subscribe for shares by issuing a provisional nil paid allotment letter which under Stock Exchange rules must be open for acceptance for a period of at least 21 days . |
| 17 | In such tests there is always a control product or pack , the behaviour of which under market conditions is known . |
| 18 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 19 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 20 | I could conclude only that he was finding the job too big for him , and was himself under stress , which he relieved by persecuting a subordinate who was particularly vulnerable . |
| 21 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 22 | Speelman , with the black pieces , found himself under pressure after Timman produced a new idea late in a Queen 's Gambit . |
| 23 | On Monday 22 December , George Grimsdale found himself under pressure . |
| 24 | He can protect himself under Ord 33 , r4A by making a written offer to accept liability up to a specified proportion , which can be brought to the attention of the judge after he has decided the liability issue at trial . |
| 25 | After they had been served , Rupert found himself under fire again . |
| 26 | Myeloski eventually asked , when he had brought himself under control . |
| 27 | She came in five minutes later , just as he had brought himself under control , and quietly slipped into his bed . |
| 28 | Billie crawled over to Adam , who was still yelling loudly , and knelt next to him , waiting for him to bring himself under control . |
| 29 | Never about bad cards , of course , he was much too professional for that , never about the fall of the dice in backgammon ; he had himself under control — just — when his bridge partner made a miscalculation and played unnecessarily into an opponent 's finesse . |
| 30 | Other aircraft joined in the fight , and before it could make a second attack the Albatros found itself under attack . |