Example sentences of "come under the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Recently this work has come under the umbrella of the ERU and it is good to have Lorraine 's expertise available to other members of the Unit .
2 Memorex Telex NV has come under the Standard & Poor 's Corp microscope and the ratings agency cut its the rating on its Memorex Telex Corp unit 's $510m 10% guaranteed senior notes due 1998 to B-minus from single-B with a negative rating outlook .
3 The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time .
4 Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them .
5 During a DHAC demonstration in the Guildhall , Alderman Hegarty of the Nationalist Party called out to the demonstrators : ‘ It is just unfortunate that you have come under the influence of card-bearing members of the Communist committee . ’
6 During the late Preclassic/early Classic period the region may have come under the influence of the Chupcuaro , who occupied agricultural and craft centres with small pyramids .
7 While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women .
8 There 's one section of the student body that has come under the limelight in the last year or two and that 's the overseas student body .
9 These functions had previously come under the Treasury .
10 Her family was strongly Nonconformist , and in 1672 , having come under the spell of Bunyan 's preaching , Agnes joined a congregation of his at Gamlingay .
11 Another topic which has come under the SAC microscope was the absolute necessity of farmers calculating the correct option when claiming the various subsidies .
12 Some six-row barleys have been cut on light land south of Worcester , but little else has come under the knife , according to John Sturt of Midland Shires Farmers .
13 The late Armand Hammer 's museum , which opened in December 1990 with a lavish $60 million building by Edward Larrabee Barnes ( likened by one critic to a consulate in a Middle Eastern emirate ) , but with only a $36 million endowment , has come under the management of the adjacent University of California at Los Angeles .
14 The importance of the structure of organic superconductors has come under the scrutiny of another group working at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois .
15 Meanwhile the company set up to market the Landini marque in the UK has gone and the Italian range has come under the Watveare wing .
16 For over five years , news from CCG has come under the banner What 's Cooking ? , but as the company has grown to include a wide range of other services as well as catering , we felt that title was no longer appropriate .
17 The potential for an advertising bonanza has come under the spotlight with the advent of ‘ splitting frequencies ’ such as that undertaken by London 's LBC last week .
18 THE OBSESSION with winning and the determination to find what makes a man tick come under the spotlight , as Paul Newman 's boozy pool-shark Eddie Felson sets his sights on Jackie Gleason 's Minnesota Fat 's crown .
19 While the characters flirt with each other in improbable configurations , love , marriage and money come under the microscope .
20 He has come under the microscope of German giants Bayern Munich and is clearly a man the Crues will have to watch carefully as well .
21 The villages of Oxfordshire have come under the microscope of the Women 's Institute in the new Oxfordshire village book .
22 Furthermore , there has been a vast increase in the range of behaviour that has come under the control of the law .
23 Due perhaps to changing conditions , however , a good many men of substance were finally taxed at 20s. on wages , including , no doubt , independent craftsmen who still dominated the local manufacture of fine cloth which , except in the Stroudwater Valley , had not yet come under the control of capitalist clothiers , as prominent in the West Country generally as in East Anglia ; pending this development earnings were evidently high and the really poor not numerous .
24 Around the mid sixth century the Greek cities of Asia Minor had come under the control of Croesus of Lydia , and when he fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 they became part of the huge Persian empire .
25 If ownership of a majority of the shares of the employing company , whether the employer is a holding company or only one of a number of subsidiaries in a group of companies , falls into new hands , the employees of that company come under the control of the new owners of the company , whether they consent to that development or not .
26 They swayed as if they , too , had come under the pressure of the wind .
27 This would have come under the jurisdiction of the provincial procurator one of whose assistants restored its headquarters building , and not that of the regionarius .
28 A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today .
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