Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] under the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was never true that the majority of local parties were under the control of the Left but the more active and vocal Constituencies were becoming so by 1939 . |
| 2 | Further south , different areas were under the control of the Somali Democratic Movement ( ‘ S.D.M. ’ ) and Somalia Patriotic Movement ( ‘ S.P.M. ’ ) and the followers of Siad Barre . |
| 3 | The left arm bones were under the thorax . |
| 4 | German universities were under the control of the state bureaucracy , which appointed the professors , but they had responded quickly to the specialization of the period with the creation of new chairs . |
| 5 | In 1938 Young Communist League membership stood at 4,500 compared with a total Party membership of 16,000 , while at the Birmingham Congress of that year 226 of the 539 delegates were under the YCL age limit of 30 . |
| 6 | By 1954 , about 1.5 million hectares were under the system , divided between nearly 170,000 farming families . |
| 7 | Although Rangers were under the cosh for most of the first half , they went into the interval with the lead they refused to relinquish . |
| 8 | Before their reforms all footmen , livery-porters , and under-butlers were under the master of the horse . |
| 9 | ‘ Her friends were under the impression that she was to spend Christmas with you in America . ’ |
| 10 | The restaurant and bar operations were under the control of the Food and Beverage Manager , who oversaw the activities of the Head Waiter , Chef and bar staff . |
| 11 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 12 | How dare the council obtain stress counselling for the social workers , she asked , when the agonised parents of the nine children were under the sort of stress the social workers could n't even begin to imagine ? |
| 13 | He thought the others were under the plane somewhere , but he did not know where . |
| 14 | The lines of tethered animals were guarded by patrolling sentries , and even those long stretches were under the shelter of strips of fabric . |
| 15 | It is reasonable , however , for Thompson to ask why such a degree of compartmentalisation of objectives should be presumed to have been the case in 1812 , when war had been largely continuous over twenty years , when trade unions were under the interdict of the Combination Acts , when the hand-loom weavers and knitters were suffering a catastrophic drop in earnings and when high food prices were producing widespread and severe hunger . |