Example sentences of "[adv] coming under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books are also coming under pressure from Christians objecting to witches and magic , and Muslims objecting to the use of pigs as characters . |
| 2 | Nobutoshi Akao takes office at a time when the country is increasingly coming under fire from environmentalists for ignoring global priorities . |
| 3 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
| 4 | Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi-media and multi-disciplinary avant-gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life-styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . |
| 5 | Fighting continued into a second day , with the presidential palace again coming under fire from the air and from snipers , despite presidential assurances to the country that the situation was under control . |