Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] under the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 2 | Norman came in under the wild-card foreign invitee blanket with nary a victory to his name in the past year . |
| 3 | As she opened the door Victoria saw the small group of photographers outside , waiting patiently under the small horse-chestnut tree opposite her house . |
| 4 | After 16 years of dictatorship from 1973 to 1989 an executive President is , under the 1980 Constitution ( drawn up under the previous military regime and amended in 1989 ) elected for a four-year term . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 6 | The Serious Fraud Office ( SFO ) was set up under the 1987 Criminal Justice Act in response to a report by the Fraud Trials Committee formed in 1983 as a result of dissatisfaction with the ability of the City of London Fraud Squad to get convictions . |
| 7 | The Occupational Pensions Board , which was set up under the 1973 Social Security Act to monitor and establish minimum standards for private occupational pension schemes , was asked to consider the question of equal status for men and women in occupational pension schemes in 1975 . |
| 8 | The nature of those developments , and the institutional structure of the villages , was peculiar to the Dukeries , as discussed here under the three separate headings introduced to characterize a place in the previous chapter . |
| 9 | ‘ We serve not under the old written code , but in the new life of the Spirit ’ ( Rom. 7:6 ) . |
| 10 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
| 11 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 12 | He comes in under the blind filled-up heaven |
| 13 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |