Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission made a provisional determination that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a claim according to the rules laid down under the statute . |
| 2 | An index of selected projects carried out under the Alvey programme is being prepared . |
| 3 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 4 | The range of activities carried out under its name is very diverse and different in kind , from armchair theorizing to the detailed accumulation and analysis of data , from metaphysical speculation to psychometric measurement . |
| 5 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 6 | In the following year , indeed , Joan of Arc was captured at Compiègne and in May 1431 , after what was a political trial carried out under ecclesiastical rules , she was condemned and burned at Rouen . |
| 7 | From General Portfolio comes the Financial Health Scheme , which provides cash for surgical operations carried out under general anaesthetic in a UK hospital . |
| 8 | Long flowing locks and pony tails spouted out under broad brimmed gypsy hats , colourful patterned shirts billowed out under velvet waistcoats as baggy strides and the occasional Mexican poncho began to displace the ubiquitous utilitarian uniform of black denim and DMs . |
| 9 | For a while he just sat there hugging his legs , with his knees tucked up under his chin , lost in thought . |
| 10 | Unix System Laboratories Inc and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG have finally got their deal ironed out under which USL is to offer SNI 's version of the Distributed Computing Environment on its Unix SVR4 operating system ( UX No 379 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ And she 's a real toff , ’ warned the old woman , tethering her ragged skirts about her more closely and fingering a few sparse hairs back up under her bonnet . |
| 12 | He was sitting against a wall with his legs tucked up under him . |
| 13 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 14 | This passage reveals concern for the points of the compass when clipping was in progress as the shepherd moved around under the tree to avoid the rays of the sun . |
| 15 | CEPR enhances the quality of research carried out under its auspices . |
| 16 | ‘ The spikes break off under your skin and you ca n't get them out . ’ |
| 17 | Even if a policy of controlling the money supply may be optimal at present , if previously held relationships break down under rapid financial change , then the rationale for controlling the money supply may disappear . |
| 18 | He felt the gravel shelve up under his feet and staggered free of the water . |
| 19 | Ruth sat hunched , knees drawn up under her chin , and waited . |
| 20 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 21 | She pushed aside the clothing and revealed him , all small and disconsolate and shrivelled looking , knees drawn up under chin in a foetal position . |
| 22 | I felt myself shrivelling up inside , knees drawn up under my chin , arms wrapped tight around them , my head buried in my arms . |
| 23 | He found the watchman asleep under a tree , his legs curled up under him as they had been when he had pantomimed the way he had found the body , his turban neatly parked beside him . |
| 24 | He merely knew enough to be careful ( though not careful enough ) about the words coming out under his fist . |
| 25 | All the cooking , eating , living went on under this vaulted ceiling with its skylights , around this central fireplace , on this limestone floor knuckled with the imprints of fossils . |
| 26 | Ken reached down under the bar and produced a homemade sign . |
| 27 | She gingerly fingers her purple marbled temple , blood swilling around under the skin . |
| 28 | An oily-pelted male with piercing green eyes reared up under her feet , knocking her sprawling on her bottom . |
| 29 | The Australian Wool Corporation , which controls wool marketing down under , lowered its floor price by 20% because of falling demand , but still had to buy 70% of the wool on sale at auction each week . |
| 30 | Frenchman Clement Ader 's bird-winged Eole may have been the first aircraft to take off under its own power ( a 20 hp steam engine ) in 1890 , but never really flew , lacking natural stability and any control system — though Ader did invent what is still the French word for an aeroplane : avion . |