Example sentences of "and came under " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watson was a Yorkshireman who studied medicine in Edinburgh and came under the influence of Sir William Hooker . |
| 2 | The hospital was originally founded in 1739 and came under the patronage of Queen Charlotte in 1804 . |
| 3 | From 1862 , Wolverton lost its independence as a locomotive works and came under the direction of Ramsbottom at Crewe . |
| 4 | A couple of years later I went to primary school and came under the strict , disciplined regime that was usual in Jamaica in those days . |
| 5 | There he met and came under the influence of one of the instructors , Professor Virgil Magureanu , who was to be one of the judges at the trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , thirteen years later . |
| 6 | Twenty bobbies threw a cordon around the car to save him — and came under a hail of bricks , bottles , concrete blocks , kicks and punches . |
| 7 | The RFC machines — mainly BE2s , Bleriots and Henri Farmans — operated individually and came under attack not by enemy aircraft but by artillery , and even by rifle fire from their own troops . |
| 8 | The signal to turn about was , like Beatty 's earlier order , missed by Evan-Thomas , who continued on his original southward course until he ran into Scheer 's battleships and came under heavy fire . |
| 9 | He acquiesced in the attempt of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] to seize the throne from Mary , and came under suspicion at the time of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v. ] , but within a few weeks was back at his duties . |
| 10 | After a year 's study with the Revd C. Hodgson at Brathay Vicarage , Ambleside , he entered Trinity College , Cambridge in 1845 , where he began a lifelong friendship with Henry Bradshaw and Dr Fenton Hort [ qq.v. ] , and came under the influence of the writings of F. D. Maurice [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | That is a scandalous way to treat people who risked their lives and came under repeated Scud attacks for the sake of their country . |
| 12 | The Islamic Interim Afghan Government ( IIAG ) , elected from the seven Pakistan-based mujaheddin groups in February 1989 [ see p. 36449 ] , was marred by disunity and came under heavy criticism from both Afghan opposition groups and the United States government as being unrepresentative , excluding as it did representatives of the eight factions based among 2,000,000 , mainly Shia , refugees in Iran , and largely lacking representation of field commanders based inside Afghanistan . |
| 13 | It was a major trading partner of Iraq , and came under intense pressure to shut off Iraq 's principal route for the export of oil ( up to 1,600,000 bpd ) through the twin pipelines across Turkish territory terminating at Yumurtalik near Dortyol in the Bay of Iskenderun . |
| 14 | There were few Marxists in the ILP but it was disproportionately strong in Scotland and came under the domination of the " Clydesider " MPs returned in 1922 , from acutely overcrowded and poor constituencies which seemed to call for extreme social measures . |
| 15 | In July a military rising broke out in Spanish Morocco , was supported by many of the garrisons in Spain , and came under the leadership of Generals Mola and Franco . |