Example sentences of "come under heavy [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 2 | The plan was abandoned shortly afterwards , however , having come under heavy criticism . |
| 3 | Less than a year later Rust and Sabrina were on a routine stakeout at the Marseilles docks when they had come under heavy fire from a gang of drug smugglers and Rust was hit in the spine , leaving him paralysed from the waist down . |
| 4 | On Oct. 17 , Vukovar came under heavy attack , and on Oct. 20 a relief convoy organized by Médecins sans Frontières evacuated 109 wounded from the city . |
| 5 | The ceasefire in Croatia was seriously threatened when Osijek and Vinkovci came under heavy shell fire from the JNA on Feb. 26 , while Sibenik on the Adriatic coast was bombarded by federal forces . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Croatian industrial areas near Karlovac came under heavy bombardment from Dec. 27 . |
| 8 | CHANCELLOR Norman Lamont came under heavy fire on booze tax yesterday . |
| 9 | Observers sent to look for the men came under heavy fire , seriously injuring a French officer . |
| 10 | A platoon commander in the 3rd Parachute Battalion , he was among the only company of Allied soldiers to reach the bridge where he and his comrades came under heavy fire . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At about 17.30 , Chester came under heavy fire and all the gun crew except Cornwell were killed . |
| 13 | Bull 's micro business , namely Zenith Data Systems , came under heavy fire from French journalists at the conference for being a loss leader in a market where making money has become more and more difficult . |
| 14 | Timely interventions by senior Army officers had already established the ‘ official view ’ that the paratroops had fired only at clearly identifiable targets , and only when they came under heavy fire from gunmen , and nail and petrol bombers ( Curtis , 1984:41–2 ) . |
| 15 | This came under heavy fire for implying that small firms set up without planning permission should only have enforcement orders issued against them if alternative premises were available . |
| 16 | As they reached the enemy coastline they came under heavy fire from the Turkish batteries . |
| 17 | The Government came under heavy pressure from the Law Society of Scotland to retain the contributory band to ensure that applicants were not encouraged to waste police and court time by using legal aid procedures to delay an eventual plea of guilty on the first day in court . |
| 18 | Yesterday the market came under heavy selling pressure in the afternoon as investors sought to take advantage of a morning bounce in which the Nikkei had risen more than 400 points to 17,585 . |
| 19 | By that time , the test was coming under heavy criticism from the trade bodies , including the Scottish Motor Trade Association , which took the unprecedented step of arranging special insurance cover to protect its members against possible damage claims . |
| 20 | There was fierce hand-to-hand fighting and the area was coming under heavy tank and artillery shelling . |
| 21 | Mr Parkinson is coming under heavy pressure from competing private consortia to approve an alternative route to a new terminus at Stratford in east London , which they say would be cheaper than the British Rail scheme to Waterloo and King 's Cross . |
| 22 | A WJC spokesman said in New York that Israel 's Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages , which had originally agreed to resettle the Bosnians in two Arab villages , reversed their decision after coming under heavy pressure from the PLO . |
| 23 | According to the opposition Treasury spokesman Chris Smith , MP for Islington South , big cars would come under heavy pressure from a Labour Chancellor . |
| 24 | Before he can set out the book reaches a savage climax as a night bivouac comes under heavy bombardment with rockets and mortars : the violence , noise and confusion are captured , as is the terrifying helplessness which contrasts with the circumstances of his first wound in action during an armoured charge under gunfire . |