Example sentences of "[was/were] under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1983 ten oil , gas and pipeline developments were approved , and six new offshore oil fields , one condensate field and three gas fields were under development . |
| 2 | However , because of the immense potential for the integrated ( ie raster/ASCII/vector ) systems that were under development , the point was made that the strategy could be to plan their eventual use for those functions where they could be of value . |
| 3 | Rush ( three knee ops ) , Ronnie Whelan ( knee ) , Rob Jones ( shins ) , Wright ( hamstring ) and Barnes ( heel and calf ) were under treatment last time . |
| 4 | They had broken covenant with God by disobeying his laws and were under sentence of death . |
| 5 | And the large majority of even the 13 and 14 year olds knew they too were under threat even though only three in 10 members of that age group had actually covered the subject in class . |
| 6 | Here they behaved in such a way as to convince the ASS officers that their lives and those of others were under threat , hence the decision to fire . |
| 7 | I ’ d left umbrella in restaurant , suede high-heeled shoes were under threat , and a taxi was as rare as an Osprey . |
| 8 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 9 | Damage to the Aral Sea was out of control [ see also below ] , while the basins around Lake Baikal and of the rivers Ob and Amur were under threat . |
| 10 | As a plausible candidate for the throne Gundovald could attract to himself those whose careers were under threat . |
| 11 | Mr Scargill said it was obscene to import foreign coal when British pits were under threat . |
| 12 | Both stations , manned by part-timers , were under threat of closure some years ago but massive campaigns secured their future . |
| 13 | Earlier this year , the Ince based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped onto the UK market , making competition virtually impossible . |
| 14 | Earlier this year , the Ince-based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped on to the UK market , making competition virtually impossible . |
| 15 | Mr Widmer said the company could not afford these unpaid debts and claimed the 1,300 Caldaire employees were under threat because of the debt . |
| 16 | The debate came the day after Councillor Charles Gray , the president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , gave warning that jobs and services were under threat and that at least half the councils in Scotland would not be able to increase their spending by more than 2.25 per cent . |
| 17 | In 1939 Lowland field work was concentrated to the west of Glasgow , in Fife , the Lothians and the Kelso area while north Skye and the Mallaig district were under survey in the summer season . |
| 18 | Most of the tasks allotted to the boys and girls were under cover in open fronted sheds . |
| 19 | At one time during field-work the traffic police became more unpopular than usual because they were under instruction not to let police colleagues off minor traffic violations . |
| 20 | The Church 's inner spirit , organization and theology need be little different in the 1990s from how they were under Pius XII in the 1950s . |
| 21 | The windows , black as pitch , were streaming with water , and from time to time doors and windows rattled as if the cottage were under attack . |
| 22 | A crash of musketry off to the right flank betrayed that the farms to the west were under attack , but here in the centre , where the road led enticingly to the crossroads , the enemy was still hidden . |
| 23 | Soon after the Iraqi onslaught , reports were received that Iraq 's two southern oil-export terminals close to Fao at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab , Mina al-Bakr and Khor al-Amayyah , were under attack by Iranian warships . |
| 24 | An aeroplane , carrying over five hundred passengers , had reported that they were under attack . |
| 25 | In the West writers and publishers were nervous of publishing any material about Islam except the most anodyne , and in the East and across the Muslim world progressive voices were under attack , he said . |
| 26 | A searching moment indicated that it was my motives rather than her welfare that were under question . |
| 27 | Most of the 87 appointments of arbitrators in respect of building contracts and sub-contracts were under JCT conditions , namely : . |
| 28 | Their level of awareness of being in a laboratory declined , and their awareness that they were under instructions to observe their own sensations similarly became less strong . |
| 29 | Not all reserve assets were under government control . |
| 30 | Erm works , bridges , B E S subjects , as John rightly said , we missed out erm one or two of these and tended to ignore the things that were under works , bridges and B E S. |