Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] under [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet made a grunting sound that meant she 'd given in under protest and Jess did n't wait for any other sign . |
| 2 | He was n't , so he did n't go right down , but was carried along under water . |
| 3 | Held , that , since in Part III of the Insolvency Act 1986 there was no definition of ‘ company ’ in relation to administrative receivers , by virtue of section 251 of that Act the definition in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 applied and , therefore , unless the contrary intention appeared , ‘ company ’ was to be defined as a company registered under the Companies Acts ; but that a contrary intention was to be deduced from the proper construction of the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally and the Act of 1986 as a whole , whereby it appeared that Parliament intended that ‘ company , ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) , should not be confined to the prima facie meaning of companies registered under the Companies Acts but should embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ; and that , accordingly , the applicants were administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) ( post , pp. 243F–G , 244A–C , D–G , 245F — 246A ) . |
| 4 | In this judgment I shall use the expression ‘ unregistered company ’ to mean any company which is liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 . |
| 5 | The relevant question is therefore : is there any indication in the subject matter and statutory purpose of the provisions concerning administrative receivers generally , or in the Act of 1986 considered as a whole , from which it appears that Parliament intended that the word ‘ company ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) of that Act should not be confined to its prima facie meaning of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , but should also embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ? |
| 6 | In my judgment , there are indications that the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally apply both to companies formed and registered under the Companies Acts and to unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V. The starting point is that the legislative concept of administrative receiver , and the statutory scheme of the provisions relating to his qualifications , functions , powers and duties , all rest on a contractual base , namely , a receiver appointed by or on behalf of debenture holders under a debenture secured by a floating charge . |
| 7 | ‘ In this section — … ‘ company ’ means a company within the meaning given by section 735(1) of the Companies Act or a company which may be wound up under Part V of this Act ( unregistered companies ) ; … |
| 8 | The position would , of course , have been plainer if Parliament had provided an expanded express definition of ‘ company ’ for the purposes of the group of sections which relate to administrative receivers , such as was done in the case of section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 , and was also done , for example , in section 22(2) ( b ) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , where company is defined as including ‘ any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . ’ |
| 9 | The definition of ‘ company ’ in section 22(2) ( b ) of that Act includes any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . |
| 10 | He had obviously managed to make the far end of the alley and slip out under cover of the fog , scant seconds before the other cars had arrived to seal it off . |
| 11 | The work of research associates and assistants is carried out under supervision , sometimes as part of a research team . |
| 12 | Laparotomy was carried out under ether anesthesia and cannulation of the bile duct was performed for continuous bile collection . |
| 13 | Vasectomy is carried out under anaesthesia through a single transverse ventral incision . |
| 14 | Thereafter , all software modifications can be carried out under LIFESPAN control . |
| 15 | Because of the blood coming out oozing out under pressure into the surrounding area . |
| 16 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 17 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 18 | This meant that some of the old despoblados , the deserted towns that had been the despair of the economists for two hundred years , came back under cultivation , just as in the town of Salamanca , centre of a great wheat region , the empty houses left untenanted by the recession of the seventeenth century were occupied once more . |
| 19 | After they have turned round under gravity and interacted a second time with the microwaves , the fraction of atoms in the F=4 level is detected and recorded . |
| 20 | In other words , some of that subconscious world which has access to us in dreams may seep through under cloak of night , giving us better apprehension of the dawn of the world , when we were children — or when mankind was in its childhood . |
| 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 | It was headed ‘ Growing Up Under Dictatorship ’ , and was about the childhood and young adolescence of its author , Sibylle Kaufmann , in Nazi Germany . |
| 23 | Sixty years after Hitler 's Enabling Act of 23 March , 1933 , finally consigned German parliamentary democracy to the dustbin and consolidated the Nazis in power , Sibylle Kaufmann believes that the most important thing she gained from growing up under dictatorship was a heightened sense of spiritual awareness : ‘ Materialistically , everything looked so fine , on the outer side . |
| 24 | The Home Office has commissioned research from Professor Graham Davies of Leicester University who says it focuses on four key areas : observing how tapes are used in court and how children stand up under cross-examination ; tracking how many tapes are made and how many end up in court ; discovering the views of lawyers , judges , social workers , police who use the tapes ; and judging the memorandum 's influence over how recordings are made and questions asked . |
| 25 | After fifteen minutes on the Metro to Nevski Prospect I was met by a teeming downpour , heavy enough to keep me holed up under cover until ten minutes before the performance was due to start , and with the hall some hundreds of yards away along a back-street . |
| 26 | On the top floor the bedrooms had pretty sloping ceilings and dormer windows peering out under eyelid gables . |
| 27 | A study by the Water Research Centre ( WRC ) showed that nitrate losses of 30–40 kg per hectare often occur under winter cereals and are worse under potatoes , rape and other vegetables , while only 2–5 kg/ha are leached out under grass , even fertilised with 200 kg/ha . |
| 28 | Anyway , the water goes up under pressure into the tanks in the roof and feeds down again to the washrooms by gravity . ’ |
| 29 | A small plane , flying in under radar . |
| 30 | Animals which depend more on other senses can avoid eagle-eyed predators by moving about under cover of darkness . |