Example sentences of "[v-ing] under the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law . |
| 2 | Murie says that this was also happening under the previous system : ‘ As the new subsidy scheme under the Housing Act 1980 had been operated to increase council rents ( which in 1982–3 accounted for a higher proportion of average earnings than at any time since 1945 ) , so exchequer subsidies have fallen ’ . |
| 3 | He has opted for the island county this time qualifying under the residential rule which also applies to captain Mark Harris , who has switched clubs from Menai Bridge to Bangor but stays on for his fourth campaign in charge . |
| 4 | Real and imagined depths were lurking under the probing axe , and twice I broke through a crust with boot and ferrule . |
| 5 | He then holds up his own ideal , a calculated inversion which in a normal man might be the text for a denunciation of what Cicero called the treachery ‘ lurking under the false show of loyal service ’ : At this point , normally , the attack on evil would be made ; but Iago unconcernedly identifies himself with this group : ‘ These fellows have some soul , /And such a one do I profess myself ’ ( 53ff . ) . |
| 6 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |
| 7 | It was eventide , the market was finished and both the hucksters and their customers were sheltering under the striped canvas awnings of the small ale booths . |
| 8 | Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations : naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions . |
| 9 | Under its schedules , both police personnel and medical practitioners ( acting under the direct supervision of the War Office and the Admiralty , rather than the local constabulary ) were empowered to notify a justice of the peace if they suspected a woman of being a common prostitute . |
| 10 | We each took hours wallowing , stroking the clean enamel , splashing under the shining silver taps , conjuring up mountains of lather from the pink soap , drifting in avalanches of talcum powder . |
| 11 | He put the stub of the fat cigar he had been smoking under the cold tap , turned the water on for a second while the brown stump sizzled and died , then threw the sodden remnant in the bin . |
| 12 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 13 | The rural family was a close-knit one with , at times , three generations living under the one roof . |
| 14 | They could have been writing under Stalin : ‘ Life in blocks of apartments … means living under the close scrutiny of your neighbours . |
| 15 | It would have been unthinkable in the Spain of those days to have male and female students living under the same roof . |
| 16 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 17 | This can meet her need temporarily when she is at some crisis point , providing , for all concerned , a trial period of living under the same roof , in this tactful guise of a holiday — without commitment on either side . |
| 18 | Living under the same roof permanently will need working at , and sacrifices will have to be made on both sides if it is to succeed . |
| 19 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 20 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 21 | It discussed whether a requirement should be imposed that the couple should not be living under the same roof at the time of the rape . |
| 22 | ‘ All I 'm trying to do is to find a solution to the problems we 're bound to run into if we 're living under the same roof , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 23 | She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof . |
| 24 | If you are happy to go on living under the constant threat of war , if you are prepared to see the discoveries of science perverted by inadequate people to the creation of foul weapons , what can I do ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's your friendship with my mother that worries me most ! ’ she said stiffly , her cheeks flushing under the cool gaze he returned . |
| 26 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
| 27 | If you have been saving under the Homeloan scheme for two years or more you may qualify for an extra £600 loan and a cash bonus of £110 , provided you buy a house or flat below a certain price limit for each region . |
| 28 | Some schools in fact survive because parents are operating under the mistaken assumption that the school is run and organised in very much the same way as the one that they attended as a child , even more so when it 's the same school . |
| 29 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 30 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |