Example sentences of "have been under [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 2 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 3 | There is no legislative assembly , although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980 . |
| 4 | The combined numbers of these three are perhaps 100 or 200 at the most , although an urgent conservation programme has been under way since 1980 . |
| 5 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 , he explained , under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 6 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 7 | A comparable scheme has been under way since 1978 in West Germany , where products judged environment-XXXX friendly have been awarded " Blue Angel " status . |
| 8 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 9 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 10 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 11 | Of course , it is not just audit regulation that has been under scrutiny in 1992 . |
| 12 | She herself has been under attack in several ways already and needs our prayers daily . |
| 13 | Here , he defends the workings of Westminster 's controversial lobby system which has been under attack from several newspapers , including The Independent and The Guardian . |
| 14 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 15 | The news followed a Financial Times report that discussions were believed to have been under way for several weeks with a number of prospective buyers , but were most advanced with the US foods and tobacco giant , Philip Morris . |
| 16 | Even though the site is only a second option , Councillor William Bleakes urged the council 's planning committee not to allow the matter to rest , and Alderman Samuel Semple pointed out the site had been under consideration since 1976 . |
| 17 | On Jan. 19 the Ministry for Research , Technology and the Environment confirmed that two inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , at the invitation of the Algerian government , had visited the nuclear reactor at Ain Oussera , 140 km south of Algiers , which had been under construction since 1986 with technical assistance from China . |
| 18 | The Wackersdorf reprocessing complex had been under construction for seven years behind barricades . |
| 19 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 20 | The programme had been under way for some time , studying liquid-liquid reactions with disappointing results . |
| 21 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 22 | In early March 1989 it was reported that the UK , Italy , Netherlands and Spain had agreed to study costings for a joint army Light Attack Helicopter ( LAH ) project ; a Franco-German joint project had been under way since late 1987 ( see p. 35665 ) . |
| 23 | The USA reacted angrily to the attack and threatened to call off talks with the PLO which had been under way since late 1987 . |
| 24 | When Aziru sent his Khabiris against us , finally , we had been under siege for three years . |
| 25 | ( Their abolition had been under discussion since 1989 — see pp. 36564 ; 37593 . ) |
| 26 | At issue was a boundary question between Venezuela and British Guiana which had been under discussion for some time . |
| 27 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 28 | He had been under attack from right-wing politicians for some time , in particular for signing an appeal by a wide range of opposition forces calling for greater democracy in Hungary . |
| 29 | In response to the Berlin crisis American B-29s bombers were deployed at bases which had been under development since 1946 . |
| 30 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |