Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [v-ing] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will have to hold discussions with the transport department but investigations are getting under way , ’ she added . |
| 2 | Evidence shows that some residential projects are coming under financial strain as money and clients dry up . |
| 3 | We are aware that , in the present round of contracting , some health authorities are coming under pressure from regions to support providers for whom they are the main purchaser . |
| 4 | Staff at the Bordon and Alton offices are coming under increasing pressure with an ever growing number of enquiries as the hard times continue to bite . |
| 5 | ‘ Asian drivers are coming under pressure from their families to quit . |
| 6 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
| 7 | The other visitors are living under the same conditions . ’ |
| 8 | Many of these countries are suffering under an enormous burden of debt . |
| 9 | There are also ominous indications that these positive movements are coming under the severest threat . |
| 10 | But of your kitchen workers are working under conditions of such such great heat that that that they 're being burnt by it and and this can be avoided then employers have got a legal obligation to sa to make safe conditions . |
| 11 | And where the source of light comes mostly from one side , as when plants are growing under a hedge , stems often bend and stretch in that direction . |
| 12 | Studies conducted since April 1988 convey mothers ' powerful sense that , as their poverty deepens , strategies which once gave some protection to their families are crumbling under the weight of increasing debt ( Cohen , 1990 , 1991 a , b ; Craig and Glendinning , 1990a , 1990b ; Craig , 1991 ) . |
| 13 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 14 | Major international telecommunications service providers are teaming under the auspices of the Network Management Forum to agree purchasing specifications for an open , standardised computing environment to support their network , service and business management needs — and with annual spending of $20,000m a year on computer systems , the parties involved have the muscle to impose any standard they set . |
| 15 | Mr MacMullen says : ‘ He is very much a Thatcher loyalist and it is an open secret that he is n't happy with the way in which things are going under John Major . |
| 16 | Middle-income earners are struggling under mountainous debts with little relief available . |
| 17 | The use of chemical weapons , including napalm , against fleeing civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan was confirmed on April 3 by the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , who added that " more than two million Kurds are leaving under constant bombardment " . |
| 18 | Alien conspiracies and kidnaps , and why some people believe that not only have UFOs landed , but their passengers are living under the Nevada desert |
| 19 | Royal probe : The royals are coming under the TV microscope again in a four-part £1.8m ITV documentary The Windsors . |
| 20 | It eats the native vegetation , spreads alien plants and , by way of its wallows , causes so much erosion that , down in the sea , reefs are dying under the silt . |
| 21 | It is at times suggested that the security forces are operating under a series of shackles , which it is sometimes suggested are of a political nature . |
| 22 | ' It is just that my friends are coming under great pressure from their communities over the incident . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My friends are coming under great pressure , ’ said the kadi . |
| 24 | " The parks are creaking under the strain " , it claims . |
| 25 | I mean as soon as it 's clear that the middle peasants are coming under pressure December nineteen forty seven , he begins to issue statements , we must protect the middle peasant and as , as said the , the , the nineteen thirty three class documents are reissued er which make it very clear that , that middle peasants must be protected . |
| 26 | Even so , more than 1m Muslims are living under siege in towns and enclaves in central and eastern Bosnia . |
| 27 | The students are working under the guidance of park rangers . |
| 28 | Tax havens are coming under increasing pressure in high tax rate countries . |
| 29 | Councils are coming under more pressure to save money . |