Example sentences of "[pers pn] come under the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1880s , dissatisfied with atheism , she came under the influence of Madame Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society . |
| 2 | While Yeats was away in Ireland , the patient was admitted to the infirmary where she came under the care of John Pulley , who did n't believe the story . |
| 3 | Laying her basket down , she ran towards the shriek , her feet slipping on the loose ground as she came under the trees , until she finished with an uncontrollable slide that landed her almost on top of Oz . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I take it you come under the heading of scholar , eh ? what ? |
| 5 | ‘ You come under the sign for twins , if this card is anything to go by , ’ he said , picking up the card Myra had sent . |
| 6 | Mind you , I do n't think they 're married either of them because she comes under the name Miss and well her name 's Estelle and he 's Paul , but she 's known as because I 've had two or three people ask me about her because she , she deals in insurance . |
| 7 | And so we come under the spell of Descartes , for whom , since the mind is distinct from the body , a pain must be a mental , a private , object . |
| 8 | There were still soldiers patrolling , and as the cart turned right into Pope 's Quay they came under the scrutiny of a Royal Irish Constabulary man on duty at the corner . |
| 9 | He was concerned that residents missed out on last year 's winter warming cash because they came under the Whitby weather station where temperatures are warmer than in Boosbeck , Lingdale , Stanghow and Moorsholm villages . |
| 10 | In fact they come under the grouping of ‘ Big Cats ’ , not only because they are large as cats go , but they roar and do not purr ! |
| 11 | I teach just such a group of boys , only they come under the title ‘ Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed ’ . |
| 12 | He studied art first at Reading University and later in Vienna , where he came under the influence of the great teacher Cizek . |
| 13 | At Cambridge he came under the influence of both Adam Sedgwick , the professor of geology , and John Stevens Henslow , the professor of botany . |
| 14 | At Cambridge he came under the influence of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] who , it is clear , shaped his life , starting with Headlam 's resolve to take holy orders . |
| 15 | During his year at Bonn ( 1864–5 ) , he came under the influence of the distinguished music critic Eduard Hanslick who was , where Wagner 's experiments were concerned , largely a traditionalist and a sceptic . |
| 16 | At Pisa in November 1209 , he came under the influence of the imperial captains and plans for the invasion of Sicily secured the support of two of the principal north Italian cities , Pisa and Milan . |
| 17 | Inevitably , he came under the scrutiny of the bigger clubs and Spurs and Brentford made offers , but he eventually moved rather suddenly in October 1935 to Norwich City , when the Canaries paid their record fee to obtain his services , and he played for the Carrow Road club until the war . |
| 18 | In 1926 he came under the supervision of Melanie Klein [ q.v. ] , whose work considerably influenced him . |
| 19 | This was the same Herod that Pontius Pilate sent the accused Jesus to during his trial , on the excuse that , because Jesus was a Galilean , he came under the rule of the Tetrarch of Galilee ( Luke 23:2–7 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I think Dieter 's been a bit naughty , ’ Husband puffed , ‘ but it was a direct follow-up to an incident abroad , so you might say it came under the doctrine of ‘ hot pursuit ’ . ’ |
| 21 | The expression " transfer of assets " , the House of Lords held , was not to be infused with any different meaning by virtue of the fact that it came under the definition of " settlement " . |
| 22 | An investigation of the Directorate published in Izvestiya of Oct. 22 , 1992 , revealed that the October 1991 order to form it from the troops of the Russian Interior Ministry was unknown to Supreme Soviet deputies ; that its personnel was armed and " in exceptional circumstances " could distribute its arms to people 's deputies ; that it guarded about 75 buildings in Moscow , " two-thirds of which have absolutely no relation to the parliament " ; and that it came under the jurisdiction only of the parliamentary Chairman . |
| 23 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 24 | The group 's concern with rocketry was hardly respectable in those days : its existence was tolerated mainly because it came under the wing of Theodore van Karman , one of the world 's greatest aerodynamicists . |
| 25 | Whilst these proposals were still before the King , the army marched on London and expelled the leading Presbyterians from the House of Commons so that it came under the control of the Independents . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 27 | Shortly afterwards it came under the aegis and support of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL ) and the scheme assumed the title of the SCONUL Tape-Slide Group . |
| 28 | There were it came under the North Wales electricity supply . |
| 29 | ‘ He says it comes under the Fireworks and public Entertainments byelaw ; an' there was n't a soul for miles around . ’ |
| 30 | You may know this but surely it comes under the heading of classified information ? ’ |