Example sentences of "[verb] come under [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view has come under criticism from some commentators ( Navarro , 1976 ; Doyal 1979 ) since , they claim , it leads to treating the causes of ill-health as being individual , requiring individually orientated therapeutic responses or prevention through individuals changing their own way of life . |
| 2 | Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd 's $1,100m of long-term debt has come under scrutiny from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which says it may cut its triple-A ratings after the company changed its financing policy : Moody 's examination will focus on whether the change will significantly reduce the company 's debt protection measurements over time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Finnish Parliament 's Wilderness Act , which includes plans to log some of the county 's most ancient forests , has come under attack from environmentalists who claim that it could result in the permanent destruction of the wilderness . |
| 5 | INVITATIONS to a prominent neo-Nazi to address student groups in Ireland has come under attack from politicians and academics . |
| 6 | THE Government 's education policy has come under attack from the headmaster of a leading North Wales public school who appealed to the public to put more trust in teachers . |
| 7 | The Whetstone Lane advice centre whose aims include trying to reduce unplanned teenage pregnancies , has come under attack from anti-abortionists since it opened in January . |
| 8 | But the craze has come under attack from two separate sides . |
| 9 | Piggott has come under fire from American observers following Walter Swinburn 's report that the veteran jockey had told him Mr Brooks ‘ moved terrible ’ going to the start . |
| 10 | Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector 's wood alliance , Corma . |
| 11 | Piggott has come under fire from American observers after Walter Swinburn told reporters that Piggott said Mr Brooks ‘ moved terrible ’ going to the start . |
| 12 | During the period of Chinese disunity the Japanese had supported the powerful warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who ruled Manchuria as his private province for much of the 1920s , but Zhang 's position , like that of the other warlords , began to come under threat from the rise of the Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-shek ( Zhiang Jishe ) . |
| 13 | Having come under criticism from within their own ranks , and from unions and student organizations , on the grounds that the formula as agreed offered insufficient guarantees , the FMLN insisted that the commission be established immediately . |
| 14 | Spain was reported to have come under pressure from the EC 's Schengen group to tighten up immigration control ; the ultimate aim of the current Schengen Agreement signatories ( the Benelux countries , France , Germany and Italy ) was the abolition of border controls throughout the EC with an accompanying strengthening of external frontiers . |
| 15 | In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bases of the 14th Army had come under attack from civilians looking for weapons , and initial assurances that the Army would remain neutral were followed by a statement issued on March 17 that , should war in the region become a reality , the Army would act to defend itself . |
| 19 | All had come under pressure from constituents , Tory officials and MPs . |
| 20 | In recent months Roman 's leadership had come under pressure from " old-guard " NSF members including President Ion Iliescu . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Allied aircraft had come under fire from the island — little more than an uninhabited rock supporting a navigational beacon — whilst they were attacking two Iraqi naval vessels on Jan. 22 . |
| 23 | Two Albanians were killed aboard a boat which reached Otranto , Italy , on June 12 ; it had come under fire from an Albanian coastal patrol . |
| 24 | Away to the north , Israeli cities had come under fire from Iraq 's Scuds , with Tel Aviv and Haifa being the first targets . |
| 25 | Recent times have seen a catalogue of complaints against the teaching profession ; standards of spelling , arithmetic and reading have come under attack from the government and in the media . |
| 26 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 27 | RADICAL plans to reform health service provision in the North-East have come under attack from worried union officials . |
| 28 | However , despite their economic problems , farmers have come under fire from conservation interests because of the allegedly adverse effects of modern farming practices on the environment . |
| 29 | 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 . |