Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] under the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall then discuss two theories of literary language and of the literary text as a whole , which were developed under the joint influence of Saussure and the Russian Formalists . |
| 2 | During Elizabeth 's long reign a mere nineteen churches or chapels were built , and only a handful more , including Fulmer and Bletchley in Buckinghamshire , Groomsbridge and St Nicholas , Rochester , in Kent , and St John Briggate in Leeds , were completed under the early Stuarts . |
| 3 | Her eyes were swollen under the thick green and black make-up . |
| 4 | Eleanor had once joked that it was sexist that men were called criminals for flashing , while women were treated under the Mental Health Act . |
| 5 | Millions of soldiers were made prisoners of war , and many other Germans were interned under the Allied policy of ‘ denazification ’ whilst their activities under the Third Reich were investigated . |
| 6 | And since they could not bear the truth , these singers , who might in some other place have been wise , were squeezed under the terrible weight of the warren 's secret until they gulped out fine folly about dignity and acquiescence , and anything else that could make believe that the rabbit loved the shining wire . |
| 7 | Connelly , barely conscious now , felt as if his blood was boiling , as if his bones were calcifying under the incredible heat . |
| 8 | Other subjects were grouped under the general heading of ‘ preparation for adult life ’ and included : craft , design and technology ; arts , including music and drama ; history and geography ; moral education ; health education and preparation for parenthood and family life ; careers education and vocational guidance . |
| 9 | The two were reported under the new International Cricket Council code of conduct . |
| 10 | Real and imagined depths were lurking under the probing axe , and twice I broke through a crust with boot and ferrule . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many of these were written under the direct , sometimes very direct , influence of Gastoldi 's balletti , ‘ fa-la ’ refrains and all — ‘ Tantzen und springen ’ , ‘ Unter all'n auf dieser Erden ’ , ‘ All Lust und Freud ’ while others such as ‘ Ihr Musici , frisch auf ’ are masterpieces of the German madrigal . |
| 13 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 14 | To return to more serious events , several contracts were accepted under the euphonious ‘ Reduce to Produce ’ . |
| 15 | Two of these orders were made under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and had a power of arrest attached . |
| 16 | Can the hon. Gentleman tell us what percentage of collieries have been closed under the present Government , and what percentage were closed under the last Labour Government ? |
| 17 | The Spanish Government 's Telecommunications Office , having twice rejected all competitive bids for a national radio-paging licence , has finally granted this honour to Sistelcom Telemensaje , which will offer the first of three national radio-paging services that were envisaged under the National Telecommunications Plan . |
| 18 | In April 1932 RAPP was disbanded , and although in the Soviet Union the ensuing liberalising effect was only temporary , lasting until 1935–6 when rigid cultural controls were reintroduced under the watchful eye of Zhdanov , in France , by contrast , 1932 was to mark the beginning of a prolonged period not only of cultural liberalisation within the PCF but also of political co-operation between communists and fellow-travelling sympathisers . |
| 19 | Because you were born under the first sign of the Zodiac , you tend to need excitement , adventure , action and results . |
| 20 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
| 21 | that were reached under the last Government . |
| 22 | This situation bears an uncomfortably close resemblance to the picture which obtained before the 1981 Act when children were assessed under the old SE procedures as in need of special educational provision . |
| 23 | At the age of nine , they were coming under the same social pressures as older children . |
| 24 | In 1899 the London , Chatham and Dover and the South Eastern Railways were brought under the operational control of a joint managing committee and Sykes was appointed consulting electrical engineer to the new organization , in which capacity he continued until his death , having served the same railway for fifty-four years . |
| 25 | For some years the convict prisons , already the responsibility of central government , remained technically separate entities , but both were brought under the dominant authority of one man , Sir Edmund Du Cane . |
| 26 | The clauses , which were introduced under the 1974-79 Labour Government , were no doubt designed to reassure people that the dangers would be minimised , as the spent nuclear fuel would be returned to the country of origin . |
| 27 | At the end of this adaptation phase , the subjects withdrew their hand , the metre rule was replaced , and the subjects were retested under the experimental conditions in the order B , C , A. Under each condition , both before and after the adaptation phase , the subject was required to point at each of the four targets five times with the order in which they were required to point to the targets randomised so that the subjects did not become practised by repeated measurements in the same position . |
| 28 | It was mid-morning and tourists were trudging under the blazing sun towards Regent 's Park . |
| 29 | Since 1979 , there has been an increase of 15,000 uniformed officers , whereas their numbers were cut under the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 30 | Failure to control inflation meant that pensioners ' incomes from savings were cut under the last Labour Government . |