Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] come under [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the business has different sections or different sites , you should enquire whether all its employees have been considered for redundancy or whether your particular part of the operation is the only one which has come under scrutiny for cut-backs . |
| 2 | With regard to liturgy , these canons demanded the retention of a number of procedures which had come under attack from Puritans , such as the use of the surplice , kneeling to receive communion , and the inclusion of the sign of the cross and godparents in the baptism ceremony . |
| 3 | Russia 's position , which had come under pressure in the CSCE summit in July [ see p. 39031 ] , appeared to be softening when at a meeting with his Baltic counterparts on Aug. 6 Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev proposed a 1994 withdrawal date . |
| 4 | It is these conceptions which have come under attack . |
| 5 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 6 | Having reached a consensus on the shape of the interim administration , which is to steer the country to full democracy , and what that democracy should look like , they have come under pressure from the others involved in the stalled multi-party discussions about South Africa 's future . |
| 7 | For at least twenty years after the Second World War most people supported the welfare state but since then it has come under attack from all sides . |
| 8 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 9 | Since the revolution he had come under attack from laity and junior clergy , while Culture Minister Andrei Plesu condemned his church 's failure to provide a basis for an organized opposition movement to Ceausescu . |
| 10 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
| 11 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |