Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy failed the March test under the IMF agreement by failing to reach the target for foreign reserves . |
| 2 | Patrick peered under the dish covers . |
| 3 | The street is too narrow to take in the full glory of the design by Fischer von Erlach but the two doorways immediately make an impact , with their wonderful straining Hercules bent under the weight of the door entablature . |
| 4 | Even so , there were times when Philippa crumpled under the strain . |
| 5 | CI lies under the application itself , but above the network protocol . |
| 6 | The cities in Ancona came under the imperial governor . |
| 7 | Until 1 June 1992 Coopers & Lybrand practised under the name of Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte . |
| 8 | TENCEL came under the media spotlight in December , with television , radio , newspapers , magazines and trade press covering the Mobile opening . |
| 9 | The investment in the new product , the area under the line OAB , is not recovered until an equal area , represented by the space BCD appears under the revenue line . |
| 10 | The investment in the new product , the area under the line OAB , is not recovered until an equal area , represented by the space BCD appears under the revenue line . |
| 11 | Indeed a great part of The German Ideology is concerned with this process , which Marx and Engels discuss under the label of the origin of ‘ consciousness ’ . |
| 12 | In his velvet-lined chamber , Piers Gaveston lay under the great , silken canopy of his four-poster bed , chewing his lip and wondering what would happen next . |
| 13 | A Baptism of Christ by sixteenth-century Venetian artist Carlotto Carliari sold for only FFr30,000 ( £3,000 ; $5,300 ) , within its estimate , a seventeenth-century oil on copper of the Holy Family attributed to the ‘ entourage ’ of Sassoferrato went for FFr29,000 ( £2,900 ; $5,100 ) and a Virgin and Child attributed to eighteenth-century French painter Jean Restout went under the hammer for FFr 22,000 . |
| 14 | Top auto racing in the United States falls under the control of three main bodies : The Sports Car Club of America ( SCAA ) founded 1944 , the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR ) founded 1947 , and Championship Auto Racing Team ( CART ) , founded 1978 . |
| 15 | Companies such as Caterham come under the second tier and have to comply with national approval rules based on EC legislation . |
| 16 | But the small screen , he insists , has not compromised his intention — to ‘ show once and for all that Shakespeare wrote a domestic tragedy as coherent and layered as anything Chekhov wrote under the same banner ’ . |
| 17 | Eventually it seemed it was only I who ever thought about that still , cold morning , recalling in my dreams that cry and that hand held out to me for help I could not , would not give , and the silence that followed Andy disappearing under the ice . |
| 18 | In July 1173 Richard and his brothers took part in an attack on eastern Normandy made under the command of Philip of Flanders . |
| 19 | Athletes are summoned rather than invited by the promoter Andreas Bruger to perform under the blazing floodlights , and there is rarely a refusal . |
| 20 | But when the leaves fall even Florence goes under the dust sheets . |
| 21 | Blackburn cracked under the pressure , as Kerslake and Jones lined up for shots and David Mitchell cleaned up . |
| 22 | Governmental efforts to bring about what amounted to a cultural revolution intensified in the 1650s , when England came under the control of army leaders such as Oliver Cromwell who considered the reform of the nation 's morality one of their chief priorities . |
| 23 | Sukarno came under the influence of their man Musso . |
| 24 | Leck Beck passes under the road nearby from its rising in Easegill Kirk . |
| 25 | This House has a role to play because Northern Ireland exists under the Government . |
| 26 | The group that Portes subsumes under the heading of a dominant class are internally divided , but have enough in common for Portes to call them a class . |
| 27 | On the western side , below the caves of Médous — discovered only in 1948 and spared , therefore , from the loss of their ‘ crystalline beauties ’ to the English vandals of the last century — there is a lovely quiet road along the valley of the Lesponne , an ideally leafy cul-de-sac , leading to the hamlet of Chiroulet close under the northern face of the Pic du Midi ; from there you can walk up to another of the more visited Pyrenean lakes , the Lac Bleu ( though this is a longish , moderately gruelling climb , involving an ascent of nearly 3,000 feet ) . |
| 28 | The Wheel Wheeler slides under the punctured tyre when it is raised off the ground . |
| 29 | Stirling replied under the heading Most Secret : |
| 30 | Glancing over her shoulder she saw him fumbling frantically to hide the pencil and paper he had been using , and a moment later Jacques Devraux ducked under the hut 's front flap . |