Example sentences of "had been under [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must have been the tremendous strain he had been under worrying about Laura and trying to keep his job up . |
| 2 | There were suggestions that Bond Corporation executives had been under regular surveillance and that there had been interference with telephone communications , Mr Lucas said . |
| 3 | The heavily fortified islands were both close to the Chinese mainland and had been under martial law since the Chinese Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949 . |
| 4 | This marked the recommencement of the peace process which had been under serious threat in recent months as both the FMLN and the government accused each other of not abiding by the conditions laid down in the January peace treaty [ see pp. 38716 ; 38809 ; 38906 ] . |
| 5 | Trovoada had been under increasing popular pressure to take action against Daio after the latter publicly criticized him on April 3 . |
| 6 | Djohar had been under increasing pressure from opposition groups as well as from the IMF and the World Bank to dismiss Mchangama after he was implicated in a financial scandal [ see p. 38902 ] . |
| 7 | Singapore had been under Japanese occupation from 1942 but by the time Bernard reached there it was under the control of the British Military Administration . |
| 8 | Cheng had been under continuous detention since his arrest in May 1987 . |
| 9 | Although the Magharians were arrested , al-Kassar and Haser had been under protective surveillance the whole time and were both spirited away before the trap closed . |
| 10 | Khost , situated south of Kabul near the border with Pakistan in Paktia province , had been under virtual siege for the duration of the Afghan civil war . |
| 11 | The former German capital , which had been under joint administration since 1945 , lay deep within the Soviet occupation zone and at first it seemed that the Western sectors would be starved into submission . |
| 12 | For Mr Yeltsin , who had been under great pressure all week , it was a victory achieved with the smallest of concessions — a vague promise to loosen monetary controls and grant extra help to Russia 's poorest . |
| 13 | The USA had been under great pressure not to veto the sending of a UN mission , as it had done in May following the Rishon Le Zion massacre of Palestinian labourers [ see p. 37443 ] . |
| 14 | Serbia ( including Macedonia and Kosovo ) and Bosnia and Herzegovina had been under Turkish rule for four or five centuries . |
| 15 | In expressing his regret at the violence Roman reinforced the Romanian government 's commitment to minority rights , at the same time pleading for an understanding of the views of Transylvanian Romanians , who had suffered greatly between 1940 and 1944 when northern Transylvania had been under Hungarian rule . |
| 16 | The agency had been under constant scrutiny since Mr Frohnmayer took over in July 1989 . |
| 17 | Lastly , there was Gordon Alston who had previously been in Benghazi when the town had been under British control . |
| 18 | The People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent in 1967 as the People 's Republic of Southern Yemen , comprising Aden , which had been under British rule since 1839 , and the former Protectorate of South Arabia , which had been developed by a series of treaties between the United Kingdom and local leaders . |
| 19 | The Jordanian government had been under heavy United States pressure to carry out sanctions . |
| 20 | Nixdorf , one of West Germany 's leading computer manufacturers , had been under severe financial pressure during 1989 . |
| 21 | June : A visit by French President Mitterrand led to the announcement that France had accepted Madagascar 's claim , supported by a UN vote in 1980 , to the islands of Les Glorieuses , Juan de Nova , Europa and Bassas de India , which had been under French control since 1882 . |
| 22 | He just considering whether to shorten sail when the foresheet , which had been under considerable strain and was rubbing back and forth against the port gunwale , parted . |
| 23 | Chuan had been under considerable pressure to appoint the Democrat Party secretary-general , Maj.-Gen. |
| 24 | In Kosovo , which had been under Serbian direct rule since the end of June [ ibid. ] , the majority Albanian population kept up its campaign of open defiance in the face of an intensifying Serbian crackdown . |
| 25 | Specifically , Russia agreed to sign a peace treaty with Austria which , like Germany , had been under four-power occupation since the war . |
| 26 | Following the disappointing returns in the World Cup , Richardson and his players had been under intense pressure . |
| 27 | For some time now the T'ang had been under intense pressure from the House to bring the General to trial for the murder of Under Secretary Lehmann . |
| 28 | It was understood that , despite Sharif 's urging him to stay on , Yaqub Khan had been under intense pressure from sections of the IDA critical of his support for the US-led alliance in the Gulf . |
| 29 | Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices . |
| 30 | On July 2 the National Assembly and on July 7 the Senate ( upper house of parliament ) approved chapters I , II , III and IV of a major reform of the penal code which had been under legislative scrutiny since May 1989 . |