Example sentences of "they [verb] under the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 2 | They ducked under the sagging wire and made their way round the back of the lake . |
| 3 | Discuss what changes would need to be made if Susan and Bob decided to form a company to take over the business to protect both partners ' interests as they stand under the current partnership agreement . |
| 4 | ‘ To bring our people back to the innocence they enjoyed under the old king . ’ |
| 5 | What had changed , he said , was that the association had finally accepted his assurance that patients would get all the drugs they needed under the new system . |
| 6 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 7 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 8 | What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years . |
| 9 | Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground . |
| 10 | Now many more MPs expressed alarm about the actual impact of the tax on their constituents and , consequently , on their chances of re-election as they discovered to their dismay that most households would be paying far more in poll tax that they had under the old rating system . |
| 11 | Dual-subject degrees exist in both the universities and polytechnics , but their place in each is subtly different ; in the former they are seen largely in relation to the single honours degree , which constitutes a kind of academic gold standard , whereas in the latter they come under the general rubric of ‘ combined studies ’ . |
| 12 | They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time . |