Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] under the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 2 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 3 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 4 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 5 | The administration of an oath in England without lawful authority is an offence , but a person appointed by order of a foreign court or other judicial authority has the necessary authority by virtue of section 1 of the Oaths and Evidence ( Overseas Authorities and Countries ) Act 1963 , for use in civil proceedings carried on under the law of that country , and a consul may administer an oath under certain other statutory provisions . |
| 6 | acknowledg 'd that the characters of the men were very unexceptionable in every respect … but the Statutes of the Univy , he thought , obliged him to proceed in this Manner — thus is Persecution carried on under the masque of Mildness and Moderation . ’ |
| 7 | Of all murders serial killings were the most frustrating , the most difficult and the chanciest to solve , the investigation carried on under the strain of vociferous public demand that the terrifying unknown devil be caught and exorcized for ever . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 9 | South Cambridgeshire District Council has recognized the important part that environmental health officers have to play within the work of the District Council , and for some time now the work of the Department has been carried on under the hat of the Legal , Housing and Health Director . |
| 10 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 11 | Unlike the situation at a comparable juncture in western development , however , this revolution could not be carried through under the leadership of the bourgeoisie . |
| 12 | The small swimming pool is perfect for cooling off under the force of the midday sun , and the snack bar serves a great range of food into the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it . |
| 14 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 15 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 16 | The engineering and design was carried out under the leadership of technical manager Paul de Plante and head of prototype engineering Paul Chassagne . |
| 17 | For Tagalogs , it is a rather amoral possibility : violent individuals are respected , but there is a less than human quality about them and violent acts are often carried out under the cover of a real or assumed drunkenness . |
| 18 | The renovation , which was carried out under the direction of an architect.who lived on Strand-on-the-Green , received a Times-R.I.C.S . |
| 19 | Work on the development of the tests ( ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ ) is being carried out under the direction of the School Examinations and Assessment Council ( SEAC ) ( see below ) . |
| 20 | These new features were included in the specification of the two double-deck cars that were completely rebuilt by the Department , with work carried out under the direction of Mr. Stuart Pillar , the then-Chief Engineer , who was justly rewarded with the MBE upon his retirement in 1982 . |
| 21 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |
| 22 | Apart from the comparative investigation of women 's political behaviour carried out under the direction of Maurice Duverger ( 1955 ) very little systematic work was done in this area . |
| 23 | It is anticipated that a research and evaluation study will be carried out under the direction of Professor Rex Taylor , Glasgow University Walker House and the other pilot projects are currently being evaluated by Dennis McCullough , Jordanhill College , Glasgow . |
| 24 | This view was subsequently confirmed by a thorough review of the operation requirement which was carried out under the direction of the four chiefs of defence staff . |
| 25 | Deaths : William Pedley : 80 , formerly Regional Controller of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries , put agricultural workers in his debt through his research into their working conditions , carried out under the supervision of Dr C.S.Orwin and published under the title of Labour on the Land ( 1942 ) . |
| 26 | Instruction manuals , tape-recordings of assessment interviews , and interviews carried out under the supervision of experienced therapists over several weeks could be used for the training of new therapists . |
| 27 | These should be carried out under the supervision of a senior member of staff . |
| 28 | A police spokesman said yesterday the investigation , carried out under the supervision of the Police Complaints Authority , was ongoing but she hoped an inquest would open very soon . |
| 29 | He complained that recruitment was being carried out under the banner of a management consultancy service without being accounted for or charged for separately . |
| 30 | There are two broad sets of problems to be considered : first , the political impact of the working-class movement in capitalist societies as they have developed since the late nineteenth century ; and second , the political systems that emerged from revolutions carried out under the banner of Marxism as ‘ proletarian revolutions ’ , in Russia , China and other countries . |