Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] under [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 2 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 3 | The Commission made a provisional determination that the plaintiffs had failed to establish a claim according to the rules laid down under the statute . |
| 4 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 5 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 6 | The privacy and identity that they possessed by living in family homes separated from other families , even when members of co-operatives , would be broken down under the new arrangements . |
| 7 | In hospitals the system has broken down under the pressure of numbers and new teaching methods are only slowly being found , but teaching in general practice has remained close to the tradition in which older generations of doctors learnt their skills . |
| 8 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 9 | Are these distinctions being broken down under the impact of wider social changes ? |
| 10 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |
| 11 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 12 | I do n't think it needs to go down under the barrier act . |
| 13 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 14 | Of all murders serial killings were the most frustrating , the most difficult and the chanciest to solve , the investigation carried on under the strain of vociferous public demand that the terrifying unknown devil be caught and exorcized for ever . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The administration of an oath in England without lawful authority is an offence , but a person appointed by order of a foreign court or other judicial authority has the necessary authority by virtue of section 1 of the Oaths and Evidence ( Overseas Authorities and Countries ) Act 1963 , for use in civil proceedings carried on under the law of that country , and a consul may administer an oath under certain other statutory provisions . |
| 17 | " I shall only allow those boys to use the range who have attained considerable proficiency in their physical exercises and drill ; and all shooting will be carried on under the strictest supervision . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 19 | acknowledg 'd that the characters of the men were very unexceptionable in every respect … but the Statutes of the Univy , he thought , obliged him to proceed in this Manner — thus is Persecution carried on under the masque of Mildness and Moderation . ’ |
| 20 | The lease was not renewed but the partners carried on under the terms of the existing one . |
| 21 | South Cambridgeshire District Council has recognized the important part that environmental health officers have to play within the work of the District Council , and for some time now the work of the Department has been carried on under the hat of the Legal , Housing and Health Director . |
| 22 | It was all forest here once , and then , ages ago , there was a flood ; the forest sank down under the sea . |
| 23 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 24 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 25 | Now , you 're booked in under the name you 're using now . |
| 26 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |
| 27 | The whole dinghy was jammed and sucked in under the stem , then rolled over , held fast by her steel mast which would not snap . |
| 28 | This on-line printer library can magic up a driver for any printer you are ever likely to meet in under a couple of minutes . |
| 29 | The sight of these two storming along under a cloud of canvas is enough to stir the blood of most landlubbers . |
| 30 | He will not , however , be liable for rent which accrues due after the expiry of the contractual term if an assignee holds over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , unless there are clear contractual provisions to this effect ( City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1993 ] 04 EG 115 ) . |