Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] under [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | RADICAL plans to reform health service provision in the North-East have come under attack from worried union officials . |
4 | The government 's so called mum 's army proposals have come under fire at a meeting of teachers and councillors in Nottingham this afternoon . |
5 | ESTATE agents have come under fire for misleading advertisements . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Both Fr Pat Ryan ( above ) and Martin McGuinness have come under investigation in The Cook Report . |
8 | 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 . |