Example sentences of "[vb pp] under [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When bottoms itch , fingers scratch , and the microscopic eggs get scraped up and caught under the nails .
2 In the stampede to get out of the building she had been caught under the flow of people , pushed to the ground and trapped , with a broken ankle , under heaps of clothes and stands .
3 He was caught under the lorry wheels on a building site at Holliers Farm near Middle Barton in Oxfordshire .
4 From this it follows that far more transactions could well be caught under the section than at first appears .
5 All 21 NESB branches have re-opened under the name of Citizens Bank .
6 The elections are organised under a system of proportional representation devised by the Western powers in 1949 with the specific aim of preventing a single party from seizing power .
7 Each recipient doing business in or organised under the laws of the United States of America or in areas subject to its jurisdiction represents that it is an institutional investor , expressing an interest for its own account and agrees not to purchase , distribute or sell any of the Company 's securities or any interest therein except in compliance with the above laws . ]
8 These are informal , shopfloor cultures , industrial ‘ games ’ organised under the pressures of increased productivity .
9 It reads : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country neither the WRU , nor any of its member clubs , will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SARB .
10 Last night 's resolution from the WRU committee read : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country , neither the WRU nor any of its member clubs will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SA Rugby Board .
11 His own rooms were squeezed under the roof .
12 The clergy educated under the dispensation of Charlemagne stood at the elbows of his successors like Old Testament prophets advising them how to rule — from the Old Testament .
13 He was educated under the supervision of his uncle , the Revd Henry Duncan , DD [ q.v. ] , at Ruthwell manse , his tutors including Robert Mitchell .
14 Born in 1818 , he had been educated under the supervision of the liberally inclined Romantic poet Vasilii Zhukovskii .
15 George Singleton , a dab hand at composing missives purporting to have originated under the pens of famous people of the past , supplied pencilled drafts of same .
16 Reconcile the net profit reported under the costing methods .
17 Dadda looked shattered by it , though , bruised under the eyes .
18 Note that attempts will be made wherever possible to conciliate between solicitor and client where the client is dissatisfied with the solicitor 's charges , and the dispute has not been resolved under the firm 's internal PR15 procedure .
19 The Adult Education Regulations of 1932 addressed a major problem which had not been resolved under the Board 's 1924 Regulations .
20 Further products are expected under the HyperManagement name tag .
21 Further products are expected under the HyperManagement nametag .
22 The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ?
23 Some $48.9 billion of Mexican debt had been rescheduled under the Baker plan in 1983–84 and 1986–87 .
24 In the Ukraine , the already strained relations between the Rada and the Provisional Government could only be exaggerated under the Bolsheviks as the Civil War developed .
25 The actual amount disbursed under the scheme in the two years for which it ran was £17 million , not £24 million .
26 She was hounded under the Protectorate by the commissioners for compounding , who persecuted many republican MPs .
27 The car was then marketed as ‘ Lagonda , designed under the supervision of W. O. Bentley ’ , but the flood of orders could not be met owing to the postwar shortage of steel .
28 BusinessWeek 's June 1 cover story on Intel , which puts its rushing out the P5 in a highly positive light , makes passing mention of an 80586 machine it 's designed under the code name Panther that OEMs can license describing it as ‘ a PC with workstation power . ’
29 During the past few years we have been almost suffocated under a pile of reminiscences .
30 At first , it seemed as if the windows had all cracked under the impact of the strike .
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