Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] under [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 2 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 3 | Before Agincourt , the French tents are well-appointed , and the mood is impatient , while the English soldiers huddle fatalistically under a hostile sky . |
| 4 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 5 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 6 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 7 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference ( set up under the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement — see pp. 34070-73 ) held meetings on July 17 , 1990 [ see p. 37624 ] , on Sept. 14 ( when the Conference displayed some optimism towards solving the problem of determining the precise stage at which the Irish government could directly enter the all-party talks ) and on Feb. 1 , 1991 . |
| 9 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 10 | The open field lines convect polewards under the joint action of magnetic ‘ tension ’ and the solar wind flow . |
| 11 | He scooped mud on to his forehead and cheeks and kept close in under the dripping leaf canopy cloaking the bank . |
| 12 | She stared in horror at the whitened , frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered , canvas sheet . |
| 13 | It is extremely important that all the factions — not just the clans but the sub-clans — in northern , southern and central Somalia come together under the United Nations plan for the ceasefire . |
| 14 | Ten Joseph tunes line up alongside a poppy cover version of Curtis Mayfield 's The Other Side of Town ; all fall together under a common musical blanket that 's soft , funky , rolling and affectionate . |
| 15 | ‘ We serve not under the old written code , but in the new life of the Spirit ’ ( Rom. 7:6 ) . |
| 16 | Abscesses form classically under the lower jaw but can occur in other sites . |
| 17 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
| 18 | Lions may learn to jump through hoops or sea lions to clap their flippers while balancing a ball on their noses , but lions jump over obstacles in their home territory or laze around under a favourite tree , while sea lions are naturally dexterous , chasing fish with great skill . |
| 19 | See further under the various sketch-titles , viz. ‘ Beadle , The ( etc . ) ’ ; |
| 20 | Take a pinch of this and a pinch of that , stir well under a slow heat , and see what happens . |